A day in the life of Capt. Amazing

After spending an entire day with a video camera, documenting every minute detail of my daily life and all its intricacies, I learned a valuable lesson: God I'm boring.

Seriously. All I do is sit around, watch TV and occasionally sniff my armpits to see if it's shower week.

So why did I decide to do this? Well, for starters, I love looking at images of myself and there's no better way to enjoy me some me than in stunning HD (I think I'm going to make that my new slogan).

Taking that one step further, I wanted to participate in YouTube's "Life in a Day" project where ordinary people (or megacelebrities such as myself) take a video camera and document their daily lives and then upload the resulting videos to the site.

More specifically, they wanted folks around the world to shoot footage of their lives during a very specific time period: July 24. If done properly, YouTube said, millions of videos would go up on its site and viewers around the world would have access to one of the largest, most diverse collections of coma-inducing footage known to man.

Just kidding. They actually said they'd turn over all the footage to producer Ridley Scott and director Kevin Macdonald so the two could piece together the best parts into a feature-length documentary to be unveiled at the Sundance Film Festival next year.

The experience itself was odd. To make sure I wouldn't forget what I was supposed to be doing, the night before (July 23) I put the video camera by the bed so that I could start filming myself the minute I woke up.

Truth be told, I was hoping that moment would come around 3 a.m. with me scurrying around the house, packing up a suitcase so I could get my wife to the hospital to deliver our son. (She was almost a week past her due date at that point.)

But she selfishly decided to stay pregnant for at least another day and so my feature film was left missing a key ingredient: interest.

So instead of documenting the birth of my first child, I was left to shoot lots of riveting footage of me watching "SportsCenter" and picking up dog poop.

I'm not kidding. Every few hours (or if I did something special like get up to get some more Doritos), I would film a segment explaining to the viewer not to worry that I was still in the same butt groove on the couch.

Now in my defense, the high temperature July 24 was about 275 degrees and I wanted to make sure that I would be ready at the drop of a hat should my wife go into labor. But if I'm going to take a real critical look at myself in the mirror, I think I have to admit that I'm just not that interesting a person.

HA! Totally joking. I'm amazing!

Heck, even 14 hours of video featuring me just sitting around doing nothing is 50 times more interesting than a bunch of supermodels skydiving naked. OK, so maybe that's a bit of an exaggeration. Forty times.

Now to those of you out there who might have participated in this exercise, I want to put your mind at ease: I didn't upload my video to YouTube.

After all, it wouldn't have been fair of me to hog all the time on the silver screen.

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And to those of you who didn't participate, I have a little advice: One day in the not-too-distant future, make it a point to take a video camera and record yourself so you can see what you're really like.

It's a great exercise for generating a little more self-awareness while giving yourself a different perspective when it comes to looking at your own life.

Sure, you'll probably discover that you're more boring than you realized, but hey, you might just discover that you could stand to lose a few pounds too.

Bryce Donovan has some big news (besides having a new son) to share so be sure to check him out again next week. In the meantime, you can reach him at 937-5938 or bdonovan@postandcourier.com. And for even more Bryce, check out his blog "The Bryce is Write" or follow him on Twitter at www.twitter.com/brycedonovan.