Hopeless Gamer

One of my favorite podcasts is Short Attention Gamer .

They were saying on a recent podcast how they liked to receive listener mail, so I banged off a missive saying how I enjoyed the podcast.

 I gave a brief description of myself, you know, married, old, with kids, got into gaming late, and I mentioned the blog.  

Todd emailed me back saying thanks for the email and asked if it was ok to mention the letter and blog on the podcast!

  Why did I mention the blog in the letter I asked myself?

 What if he reads it and thinks it shite? 

It is a funny sort of conceit to think you can type stuff about things that interest you and people will find it interesting enough to read. Then I thought, why not mention the blog? I kind of think it is a pointless exercise if I’m the only one reading it.

 I bit the bullet and replied to Todd “sure, no problem”.   With baited breath, I waited for the show and before long; it downloaded itself into my Ipod.

 I’ve bought one of those Ipod attachments that plug into the cars cigarette lighter and transmits to your FM radio; so on the way into work, I listened to the latest SAG episode.  Todd starts to mention listener mail and I thought, “Here we go” In the email, I mentioned how old I was and Matt remarked how Todd and I were as old as dirt. Todd and Matt had a bit of a chuckle over my mid life crisis, how I chose gaming over a Ferrari and then Todd dropped the big one.

  And it was good.

 He said he liked the blog and said some very kind words about it, I was over the moon, a bit of validation from a well-known podcast I enjoy and respect meant a lot to me.

 When I got to work, I tried to impress on my work colleges how famous I was, after explaining what a podcast was four or five times, I gave up.  Still, as I mentioned on the SAG forum, you gota take what you can get.