Stumbled back over to this thread and made me wonder if
@Superballs and
@Toma Rider are OK.
They both seem very quiet in the last few weeks.
Same for
@ShiftHer and a few others I enjoy hearing from...
Hey R-Rated, and everyone else. Saw the notification email and thought I would pop in.
As mentioned in another thread, there has been some major life changes for me, mainly career-wise. I've left an 11 year IT career and started an apprenticeship for toolmaking.
Suffice it to say, I've simply been exhausted and my internet activity has been mainly Youtube consumption, not even much in the way of production. During the evaluation period for the apprenticeship, all candidates have been subjected to general labor positions, and my competetion have been mainly kids in their early 20s.
Suffice it to say, I've shown 'em all "what's up" and I've not only been accepted into the apprenticeship, but am the leading candidate. This has been quite a change from sitting in a chair all day, and physically speaking, has actually been tougher than I like to admit, but I'm adjusting.
I received my cable that allows me to charge my camera while using an external mic and went to fire up my camera to test it out, and found that my camera does not power on, nor will it charge. I think it got wrecked when I lost my top luggage keys, and when retracing my "steps" back to work to look for them, I got caught in a downpour, and my camera was only in the skeleton case.
I do have some of my work transistion documented, but not really sure if I will be making anything from it. A lot of my recorded videos were time sensitive (or sunny bear related) so aren't very relevant. I might do some pinball videos if I can find the energy and maybe some off-bike stuff until I can convice my wife to let me buy a replacement camera.
My landlords also recently told us they are selling the house, so, with our baby's impending and rapidly approaching 0th birthday, we are also looking for a new place in a market where rents are double what I'm paying currently, or to purchase, but in our aggressive efforts to take care of some personal debts in an expedited fashion, we are short a down payment.
TLDR: Life has been a little crazy for me, but I'm ok and my family is ok. I'll be around a bit more in the near future, whether I'm vlogging or not.
PS: I guarantee that I had THE MOST EPIC sunny bear dance (SBD for short) ever, so it's kind of a shame I never got any of my videos for that edited on time.
Thanks for the shout out, miss you all.