Imagine the pressure.

I just want you to imagine the pressure.

You decide you’re going to do a daily podcast every single day.

You’re going to get on the microphone and talk for about five minutes.

Imagine the pressure of having something to say every single day, but then imagine you’re me.

So of course you can do it.

Let’s go.

Your daily Lex.

The window I was given was three to five.

I think.

Let me check.

I’m checking my calendar live.

Checking out the counter.

Yeah.

Three to five was the window.

It’s four 42.

As I record these words and the, uh, blinds people still haven’t arrived and I haven’t called because they said three, three to five and it’s not yet five.

So they still have time to show up and do what they promised to do.

Uh, should they fail or should they come late?

Uh, they can’t come.

Um, but yeah, uh, we have a couple of different remote controlled blinds in the house.

Two of them are in the primary bathroom.

When we moved into the house, there were no window treatments in the primary bathroom, which meant that when we showered, uh, the neighbors could just look out their window and see us, uh, which was fun for everybody.

Um, but so we, we have some remote control blinds there because the blinds are pretty far away.

There’s a built in bathtub thing that we would never have done, but it’s gigantic.

So you have to kind of climb up on that thing.

And, uh, it is very hard to get to the windows themselves physically.

So we put a little remote thing and then we later in our, our family room, our, our living room, depending on what you want to call it.

It has these enormous windows and these enormous automated blinds.

Those work better.

Those are wired in.

Uh, they have full-time electric power and there’s like, it’s a Hunter Douglas thing.

It’s got like a hub that listens.

Uh, so like those, those are less annoying, but the ones in our bathroom are always annoying and they take like literally 12 batteries, each 12, I think AAA batteries each.

Uh, the newer models can take rechargeable wands that, you know, you plug in every six months or something and then they’re good.

Uh, so one of the things we’re hoping to do is swap out the giant battery sticks for these, uh, rechargeable ones.

And one of the things we’re trying to do is, you know, make the one that doesn’t work work.

Cause one of them still goes up and down, but one of them is stuck down.

Now if it’s going to be stuck, I’d rather be stuck down than stuck up.

Uh, cause nobody should be stuck up.

That’s rude.

But, um, we do need to get it fixed.

And the folks who installed it have come and repaired things a couple of times, but they are roughly a hundred years old and it keeps not staying fixed.

So I don’t really think they know what they’re doing.

So I’ve called this other company.

This other company of course is one of those places it’s like, Hey, it’s $150 just for us to come out and then we’ll probably have to take them down and ship them away.

And, um, you know, then we’ll have to come back and reinstall them.

Plus we’ll have to pay separately for any repair costs or anything.

Um, but whatever we have to do to take them down and put them back up, that’s covered by the one 50.

So we’re going to pay through the nose for the power of not having our neighbors see us naked is basically what I think it is.

Uh, good stuff.

Uh, the neighbors are complaining.

They’re like, don’t change it.

We just don’t have any window treatments.

They don’t even think we should have windows.

They just think we should be at open air.

I don’t know what’s happening to me right now.

I’m a crazy man.

I, uh, I’m excited because tonight I’m making steak for me and for Liam for dinner.

So I’ll be preparing some steaks really shortly after this.

And, uh, also we have a, what we call a stumble through of misery tonight.

That’s where we’re just going to try to get through the whole show, but we know we’re going to stop a bajillion times because we’re going to screw a bunch of things up.

Off book is due Monday.

As I’ve talked about on this very podcast, I am not off book yet.

I’m overall probably 75 to 85% off book.

In some scenes I’m a hundred percent.

And in some scenes, uh, not so much, I’m not doing the math, but man, there’s also this giant monologue at the end that I have.

And I know all the ideas of the monologue and very few of the actual words in the correct order.

So that’ll be fun to figure out.

Uh, I can imagine it’s delightful for you to listen to me complain about learning lines.

Uh, it seems like a, maybe a boring topic, but it is probably the loudest thing in my head right now.

When I’m not studying lines, I’m thinking about studying lines.

When I’m studying lines, I’m thinking, boy, I wish I wasn’t studying lines right now.

Well, I studied two lines, time for a break.

Uh, I have that kind of not even procrastination, but like fear that I won’t be able to do it.

I don’t know.

So anyway, uh, I’m working on it.

I got to get those lines down, man.

I mean, it’ll be so much easier to do the show once I know the lines, which I guess makes total sense.

Anyway, it’s Thursday, it’s February 1st.

We’re already in February.

I hope you’re having an incredible, magical, wonderful day.

And, uh, yeah, I look forward to talking to you Friday, which is by my calculation tomorrow, at which point I’ll need to have yet another topic for yet another episode of your daily Lex.

Okay.