My Annoying Dearth of Podcasts

I am having a hard time gearing up this spring.  For some reason, I feel very blah and tired in the morning and after work. (I actually feel kinda blah during work, too, but I have too much work to let that get into the way. Also, I have audiobooks to keep me going.)  I also have a great many spring cleaning chores to do, which I am having more success forcing my blah self to do than podcasting. Also, I’m having a lot of trouble sleeping the whole night, even when I stay off the caffeine.

I feel ashamed that I’m letting this stop me, as I was far more physically tired and exhausted last spring.

The other problem is… well, it’s a good kind of problem to have, but annoying. My new laptop handles soundfile processing a great deal more quickly than my old computer, and it sounds pretty good as long as the Audacity program only has to handle laptop noise. (Any hint of my old computer’s fan noise makes it delete too much noise, and leaves the audio hard to listen to.) Unfortunately, I can’t get either a wireless router or a physical connection to work between my old and new computers; and my old computer’s CPU et al are from a generation that really hates USB devices, and thus only recognize them once. The local wireless restaurant just got put out of business by the health department, and I refuse to pay Mickey D’s two bucks for an hour of dubious connectivity. So I have to transfer files from laptop to computer by CD, and then from computer to the Internet; and that’s both expensive of CDs and clumsy. (And I can’t even record while I’m doing it.)

The best thing I can figure is that I should get a bit ahead, then get on the bus and go eat at Panera in order to transfer files to archive.org. But that seems a bit overelaborate, and not cheap. Podcasting is supposed to be my free hobby!

I honestly don’t know what to do. Maybe I can find a better router that will actually work, and then I won’t have to worry about this anymore.