I just wrote a sweet new post over at caseycapshaw.com.

It's all about connectivity addiciton, email overload, and how I broke the cycle.   I am now on the road to recovery.  this is a huge corporate problem.   I expect to see chapters popping up all over the country of EA...Emailers Anonymous. 

I created caseycapshaw.com to be a vehicle for professional self-promotion and to allow space for business conversations to take place.  This Zaadz blog is all party; like the back part of a mullet.

Check it out for a glimpse into my version of conscious marketing.

I just google myself (a vanity practice i often indulge in) and found that my new marketing and productivity site is ranking #1 already.  good news.

My Zaadz profile is #2.  These guys rock the SEO.

But the curiosity came with the result of #3.  Yahoo TV?

Apparantly Yahoo is indexing production credits from shows and creating a database of the people working on them.  I spent some time in hollywood, and most of the shows i worked on are listed on this Yahoo TV site.

Unfortunately i have no upcoming appearances ;(

No if i could only figure out how to get Yahoo TV to link to caseycapshaw.com....



notice the DVD advertised with me...sweet.

I just signed up for the beta of  Google's new Pay-Per-Action Adwords system.  It look to be the next future of online advertising.  I can't wait to get in there and check it out.  More thoughts on my Conscious Marketing blog.

Given that my house burned last week...and I lost  my foremost work contract, I am feeling a bit disconnected lately.  Living out of a car presents newfound challenges.  Let's just say it has been a chaotic time.

But, I have decided to deny resistance and adopt my new condition wholeheartedly.  I have several travel opportunities in the next two months that are going to keep me away from boulder for over half of the time.  Considering this as I search craigslist for a new home convinces me its not worth the expense to build a new nest until perhaps august.  Its summertime, the livin is easy, I am going to stay homeless.  I will become...The Nomad.

I spent the morning preparing for my new, nomadic life.  Since nearly all my possesions are already in storage this was not a very difficult operation.  I simply gathered all my clothes and got lean.  Here is what I deemed necessary:

7 colored T-shirts
3 plain white undershirts
7 pair of underwear
7 pair of calf socks
2 pair of ankle socks
4 pairs of pants.
2 collared shirts
2 pairs of gym shorts
1 pair of flip-flops
1 pair of hiking boots
1 pair running shoes

All of this fit nicely into my favorite mode of storage, the blue "tupperwear" container.  This, along with a toiletry kit, should keep me acceptably civilized when I return to the marketplace.

I went to my storage unit and got together all my camping supplies and motorcycle gear.  If the car is my home, then the bike will be my transportation. 

I put all this stuff into the trunk as I will not need access to it as much and the trunk makes a nice staging area. 

All the unnecessary clothing will be stored in "the unit" out of the way and available if I should need it...I doubt I will.

My Laptop Bag has become my office, with all the necessary connectors and wires stored in the pockets of the bag.  This fits into the saddlebag of my motorcycle making commutes to WI-Fi hotspots very convenient.

Now that I have trimmed all the fat from my Car-home, my "office," and my transportation, it's time to consider sleeping quarters.

I have a lot of friends in Boulder generously offering their homes and couches, which is great, but the nomad doesn't stay too long in one space,,wouldn't want to wear out that kind welcome.

I have been house-sitting this week for  a buddy that is out of town.  That gig ends tuesday.  Boulder, is close enough to the mountains that I shouldn't have any trouble finding an isolated woodland spot to throw my tent out. 

I have to admit, it feels really liberating to simplify my external existence down in this way.  When I take these trips, I will simplify even further.  It is curious how much "stuff" we convince ourselves we need.  I mean, sure, it is nice to have a sweet apartment with hi-def TV, but going minimalist is going to be a great exercise for me.

If you are in NYC, Boston, oklahoma, Dallas, or nortwest florida, I'll be coming through your area in the next few weeks.  watch out for The Nomad.

Oh and BTW, I shower at the Boulder Rec Center in case you were wondering.

So I have been house-hunting lately, andswering a ton of craigslist postings and such, so I was curious when I go this email:

Hi,
 
My name is Marya Jones.I am in my early age of 50s and I am an european . I come to the states often mostly for business purposes because I deal mostly in Furniture. I furniture to stores in the states and europe . Infact that is my family business cos we are from france. I bought a house last year in the states cos i love it there .It is peaceful and with a loving neighbourhood.
 
Unfortunately my Mother passed away on the 7th of May 2006 and as the only Daughter in my family i have to go and take care of the family business back in France and i realised that it will be very difficult to supply goods to my clients again in the United states while am away and it will definitely cost me alot to come over to receive payments cos they pay mostly in checks and money orders .
 
Running the business from there it will be difficult and will be impossible especially the aspect of payment and i dont also want to lose my clients or customers there . So what i intend doing is that i am looking for some one to stay at my house free of charge. I dont want to sell the house cos i just bought it and i will have all the rest papers by August but i have ALL the keys now. I am simply looking for someone that is honest and trustworthy and clean for two reasons:
 
1. to maintain the house when i am away and
2.To help me receive payments from my clients within the USA on my behalf in his/her name and have it cashed cos they pay mostly checks and money orders and have the funds wired to me here in France thru money gram transfer/western union transfer . You dont have to pay me for the accommodation. its just for the purpose of keeping my business going on in the United state.and if you wanna keep this assignment as a job let me know so i can allocate 10% on each payment that you receive if at all you dont wanna live in the house or if you are far from the house.
 
The house is a great one,living room,bedrooms,bathroom,parking space e.tc furnished as well . If you want i can email you more pictures and if you are interested i will send the keys to you via courier so you can go and see the house. It is a very lovely house and there is no way you wont like it.
 
If you are interested in handling my business in the state and keeping the house neat, please send me your full name and address with your phone number and also for me to be able to no how far the place is from your present residential place.I am back in France. you send back your response to my personal email: marya_jones03@yahoo.com
I've been hard hearing for 4 yrs so i won't be able to make phone conversations but i can always email you anytime.
 
Thanks  
 
Marya

So this isn't totally crazy right?  I emailed the person asking how they got my name and said I was curious.  I recieved an email today with pictures of the house.

I then got another email:

Hello ,
 
Thanks for your mail.You are going to love the place. Its nice and its located 2 minutes drive from denver so you will have no problem with the distance but i won't give you the address of the place because i once had a problem with someone breaking in the house and i wouldn't know if it was the person i gave my address or someone else so i don't want to take any chances.hope you understand but before we go into that i will like you to understand the basis of my business.
 
I have a client of mine who is going to issue a payment to you so let me know have your correct name and address so that you won't have problems cashing it at the bank or at your nearest cashing point.
 
This is just like a test and not only that ,i want you to get the procedure first before we can become partners . When you receive the payment, do cash it , deduct your 10% from it and send the remaining to me via money gram money transfer here in france because i'm also setting up my company over here and you know i will need money. Can you locate a money gram location?
 
Also i will love to have your passport and also a reference, i will really appreciate it.
 
 After the first test, i will be coming to the state with the keys so that we can both view the place together but i know you will like it , Also here are some pictures of the place so that you can have the idea of how the place looks like.
 
Thanks and let me know if my mail is well understood.
 
Marya

HA HA HA HA kripes!! my name and address sure sure,, oh and my passport and a reference....

WTF!!??, why don't i just give you my credit card numbers and the keys to my 95 Taurus so you can properly leave me for dead somewhere.

side-effects of the information age I suppose.

LOOK OUT FOR SCAMMERS!

Freelance Conscious Marketer ( me ) needs work.

I have experience implementing communications and promotions systems for products and services.   Details are available on my resume.

I would love to help gather attention for the conscious businesses here on Zaadz.

If you are interested please learn more about my perspectives on marketing @ caseycapshaw.com

I just posted on my blog about how our house fire just got picked up by Wired Online.

Gwen's photojournalistic stylings of the event are quite the buzz. 

We're even big in China.

rock.

Boulder is a beautiful town in the morning.  I have always been a morning sort of person, and I love the pleasant anticipation that blossoms with the new days light.

This day I found myself comfortably seated on a park bench on pearl street, sans urgency, casually enjoying the latest Time magazine.  I came to a series taking multiple angles on the short lived presidency of John Fitzgerald Kennedy. 

As the Environment Colorado kids prepped for the day soliciting donations, I read an inspiring perspective on one of the great moments of the Republic, and one of the most fragile, the Cuban missile crisis and the Bay of Pigs.

This account of the leadership embodied by JFK truly inspired.  It describes the man's deepest values as leadership by example and the unflinching insistence on peace until all other avenues are exhausted.  What I see are World-Centric values, holding the interest of all humans regardless of nation, race, class, or creed as paramount.  (disclaimer: I realize there are many other opposing reads on the legacy of JFK)

As the interdependency of the globe becomes more obvious, from ecosystem to techno-socio-economic system, the leader of the free world should be a person that can hold the health of the global system as compass for leadership.  This global compass must of course be built upon the solid foundations of nation, family and self but in no way limited by needs from these lesser goods.

Thanking the morning for its graces, I began my daily routine of processing email.  I came across a mailer from the campaign of Barack Obama.

"I've seen what can happen when people who love their country come together and decide it's time for change. As a community organizer in the South Side of Chicago, I was part of a movement that turned around neighborhoods that others had given up on. I know what's possible for this country. I know we can build a new kind of politics that recognizes we're all connected as one people, that we rise or fall as one nation, and that we're ready to turn the page and start anew."  --Barack Obama

The JKF allusions have already been made in media channels about Mr. Obama but I couldn't help but be swept up in the archetypal similarities.  Change is a word that most often corrodes into cliche with the oxidizing mix of narcissism and naivete, but this America does need change.  This America is bruised and hopeless and the path towards light demands a brilliance of leadership atypical to the politic of recent years...decades.   A healed America can embody hope for a battered world and become a leader of nations toward a healthier globe desperately in need.

Obama may be that leader, the time has certainly created ample space for that leader to emerge.   I see an opportunity for America to be that leader for the world, and would take pride in contributing to the possibility.

As I sit in a comfortable Boulder Colorado office space, typing diligently on a pleasing Mac laptop, I wonder what else I might do to be the change, and I blog about it.