Hi everyone,

Sorry about that last blog, I guess I was getting a bit down with things. I never expected having to wait around and know nothing to be so hard. I mean this whole experience is a great thing. I know that the team is working hard on my idea and that it’s moving forward and that in the end it’s going to happen. It will be a product out there for anyone to buy. My kids will be proud of their dad and I will be proud of me and all will be well with the world. What I didn’t expect was the feeling that I’m a stealth inventor. Knowing this is all happening, but in a way not being a part of it is very strange. I want to scream out to the world…Here I am! Look at Me!!! I made it! I can’t though because it’s too early. Still filing for patents, still working out the bugs, still waiting. I guess with my last blog I kind of got myself buried in it all and lost site of the bigger picture which is that I did make the show and that I will have a product on the market in about a year. And in my heart know how much the team at Everyday Edisons want it to be successful and that they have the skills to do it the best it can possibly be done. I couldn’t ask for more. I’ve had a couple of reporters contact me now and they all want to write articles on the local inventor, they can’t yet because of patent issues, but I can’t wait for that to happen. It’s a kind of validation. I want to see my name in print with the word inventor or invention. It makes me feel like all these “crazy” ideas I keep toying around with over and over again aren’t as “crazy” as one might think. I’ve decided to fill the void and time with working hard on my latest ideas. I am having a fun time with it to. Each idea has it’s own unique challenges and everyday I’m tweaking, changing, or surfing the web or scouting out Home Depot for a part that will work. It’s a lot of fun and there is no pressure on me to do it. Inventing has kind of become my hobby. Hopefully a hobby that will bring me some return if I find the next great thing. If I don’t, I don’t but I will at least have some self satisfaction in knowing what I dreamt up could be done because I’ll have a proof of concept prototype, or hopefully fully functional one in front of me in the end. I never really sat down and tried as hard to come up with ideas until after I made it on the show. I see the show as being my opportunity to push this hobby of mine to the forefront, It’s my chance once it airs to have a little more weight behind my ideas and hopefully a little more clout to get in to present them to people. I’m pushing myself very hard right now because I don’t want to miss the chance to do something with my creative side and invent! Believe it or not I actually have 2 new completed ideas and am working on 3 more. They all are at various stages of development and I’ve got drawings, re-drawings, prototypes, and parts galore for all of them. It’s kind of cool to jump from one to the other on the fly. If I get stuck on one, I move to the next and then usually within a few days I’m back on the other because my mind had a chance to re-think and solve what I couldn’t when I was so very focused on it. The mind is an amazing thing. My big challenge now is where am I going to go with these ideas. I’m debating entering a couple of them online. One would fit the “As seen on TV” challenge very nicely, another the Westpoint challenge. I worry though that if I do the online thing that it just won’t have the same impact as a face to face. I’d hate to kill an idea just because no one got it because I wasn’t there to explain it. Then on the other hand I just have too many to go to a casting call with. I need to narrow the ideas down and keep the best 2 for the casting call and the other’s for online maybe? I’m just not sure. Any way, I’ll figure it out and all the ideas will get in front of someone somehow. In fact I think I’ll go enter that Spirit Halloween one right now. Hopefully with any luck you’ll see me posted as a winner. If not then no harm no foul, I’ll just come up with another idea and enjoy pushing the limit of my creativeness and my abilities. There is no way anyone can tell me there is anything wrong with that.