We're nearing completion on the first episode of Changing Gears (the TV show) to air on CATS. It's pretty exciting to see the project come together, and it's been fun to both work on this one and plan the next episode as well.

For this episode, we went to the community bike project and interviewed several people, including the owner of Bloomington Pedal Power, a new local business that is essentially a bicycle delivery service. His interview turned out to be good and long enough to make its own segment. We also interviewed Randall Baker, a professor from SPEA who spoke with us about policymaking and sustainability. It's good stuff. I hope that people like the show, because we are certainly excited about it.

On the other hand, making the show took up a lot of hours in the last few days, and we need to spend a lot of time on prepping for the movie. I'm sure that having the show will pay its own dividends in publicity and experience, but it is difficult for us to get home late every night and pretty much put the rest of our life on hold.

I think it will be worth it in the long run, but it is hard at the end of the day when I look back and realize how little quality time we've had together, even though we often work for hours in the same room. Even when we go to bed, we want to stay up and work, or play music, or even just talk, but we know that we've got to do it all over again in the morning.

Maybe CG can help move our town towards a simpler, slower way of life where people don't work from 8 in the morning till 11 at night. I know I'll be happy when we get to slow down (in August). :)