Episode 100 - The one where they did 100 episodes...

I think its pretty fair to say most (if not all) of us could stand to have fewer “things” in our lives… if the town you live in is anything like mine, about the only things being built en masse are places for people to live, places to wash your car, and places to store your stuff… And honestly, if we’re having to pay someone to quietly hide away all the stuff we have that doesn’t already fit in our home then, well, maybe we actually do have too much stuff…

I for sure am counted among them, and while I do survive the occasional purge of “when was the last time we used this…”, some things I just can’t part with. It might be a memento from a long-past adventure, or a seemingly worthless trinket that ties back to a now-gone loved one, and other times… it’s literally a piece of paper.To me, at least, this is no ordinary piece of paper… Sure, its a pretty typical 6” x 4” sheet of lined yellow note paper with some worse-than-average bullet points scribbled on it, but to me it’s not only something I keep, it lives proudly on a shelf of admiration.

See, once upon a time, three friends decided they talk entirely too much about tech, gadgets, games, and… well, life… and eventually they started doing it in front of a microphone and shipping it out to the internet. A few people listed, a lot of laughs were had, and way too much caffeine was consumed…

The year was 2012, the podcast wasn’t even this one, but it’s still what I think about when contemplating the origins of the Solid State Podcast and how we got here twelve years later…

So that piece of paper, it was our very first topic list from our very first episode on a show long lost to the internet, but here in 2024 I still look at that piece of paper at least once a week. 

We definitely have too much stuff, but I’m going to go put this paper back up on the shelf where it belongs…