My 4 year-old son, Harrison, invented a new word this evening that had us crying with laughter…

The new word is

smuffle…noun = a belch that is not fully ‘vocalized’ by straightening one’s trachea during the act such that the sound of the belch is muted and muffled. Usage = that wasn’t a belch mommy, it was a smuffle.

Where does he come up with this crap?

Just a quick note, I spent some time over the last few days going back through my Google Reader history, looking for all of the posts that I “starred”.

I’m planning a post to share some of my all-time favs, but while in there, noticed that a lot of the old articles that were lost on this blog were still there. So I will also be re-publishing those articles (and probably updating them a bit before hittin’ that publish button) as well! Yeah me!

It’s like getting a do-over…I only have to republish the stuff that doesn’t make me wince

I’ve been very busy working on my screencast training videos for my part-time consulting gig. You know it was funny, I was procrastinating getting started because I thought I needed better tools, thought I needed this and that…then I started convincing myself that I needed a professional recording studio, etc etc.

I didn’t need any of it. I needed to just get started.

Now that I’m into them, they’re really a lot of fun to do and I keep coming up with ideas of more things to do training classes on. They won’t be relevant for everybody, but like Brian pointed out today, “In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king”. This is along the lines of what I’ve begun to realize more and more this year and it’s kind of a ‘well, duh!’ thing.

There are people that know more than you do about any topic.

Let me say it again.

There are people that know more than you do about any topic.

But what I’ve discovered is that the REVERSE of this is also true…

There are people that know way less than you do about X. But it’s hard for you imagine that there’s people that would value the really “basic” information you take for granted.

a lot of what I know how to do with the internet and computers and software is literally freakin’ magic to a startlingly large portion of the planet.

The video ideas I’m coming up with are simple crap – how do I get my own www.mycoolwebsite.com thing? How do I get my own email address thing? Is it hard? Is it expensive? Now for most of us here in the blogosphere, these are insanely basic and stupid things to be asking….but step outside the blogs for a while and talk to real people and you’ll find that a massive amount of folks literally HAVE NO FREAKING CLUE about any of that stuff.

Thus, I am the one-eyed man amongst the blind. So are you – don’t underestimate your worth.