How Many Stories Can We Tell?

“Can I tell you about the book I’m reading?” “Did I tell you the funny story about those friends?” “Tell me more about what you want to do.” “Could you tell me how to do that?”

The simple story goes: I stayed with Finn for the first half of his vacation on South Padre Island, and we crammed a bunch of fun stuff into those three days.

Adventures

Time on the beach.

Time with several games.

An Epic Adventure including make-shift picnic margaritas, the island’s impossible shuttle service with a Marauder’s Map (real-time bus locations with an invisibility cloak?), the late-night vocal styling of “Danica!!” appreciated from the other side of a closed window. Every bit of the adventure was epic.

A dolphin cruise that surprised us with actual dolphins. (Low expectations come in handy.)

Dipping in the condo’s cold pool.

Dipping in the condo’s hot tub.

But none of that is what the visit was about.

Always Telling

It was about our constant undercurrent of conversation: telling stories, asking for stories, explaining concepts, reminiscing. “Remember how Gramma used to chew and the sound would come out of her ears?” “You won’t believe my absurd luck at winning at card bingo.” “Um, did I tell you that I won a conference bingo two years in a row?”

We even talked about how many times you have to talk about something before the other person truly hears you. That I keep asking Finn to explain his physics work to me. That I keep telling him that sunglasses protect your eyeballs. Repetition isn’t a bad thing to us; it means we never run out of topics for stories.

And, we came up with a new way to tell each other things. A podcast called:

How Many Times Do I Have to Tell You?

In each episode, I’ll tell him something, and he’ll tell me something. Simple, yes? Maybe.

We’ll see how how much yet another project might work in the schedule of this PhD student/physics grad department president/contra-dancing, gym-going, D&D playing/busy-with-more-than-I-can-list dude. But, if he can swing it, look at all the topics he can tell us about! I have a few up my sleeve, as well.

Here’s the first take of our intro clip as a teaser. Literally, the first take of the first draft. If we do make this, though, you know there’s more to come.