The Owner's Box, Ep. 59.

Here's the new "album cover" for my six-year-old audio podcast.

Sometimes, and I really don't know why, I get away from my podcasting duties. Such was the case over the past seven months; part of the reason was my work schedule through late May, but I've had plenty of time to sit down at the microphone and transcribe my thoughts for global consumption.

I finally got around to it on Saturday afternoon, but in a novel way. 

Thanks to some new equipment I've procured over the past year -- a new headset, a new and more portable mixing board and a new laptop computer that is compact enough to use remotely but powerful enough to record my audio podcasts -- I took advantage of a beautiful day in the neighborhood to set up an outdoor "studio" and record Episode 59 of The Owner's Box.

It went off seamlessly ... save for the fact that I kept referring to it as "Episode 57" throughout (I edited out those references after discovering my error). I have a whiteboard in my home office on which I record the current number of both my audio and video episodes, but I forgot to update the audio number last December for the two podcasts I recorded then. Shame on me.

It's a solo episode, in which I talk about the summer basketball leagues going on in our area, my thoughts on Patriots training camp and the Red Sox, and my current efforts to turn old comic books into cash by selling them to collectors. I also mention that many of these old books have relevance to the spate of new superhero movies being released this summer.

Here's a link. Hopefully it will be the harbinger of many more to come -- including some in which I can take the show on the road, as was my original plan for this summer.