Friday, June 15, 2018

Going Backward Through the Day, Some Things

So the Valiant had been undefeated this stage, but just got beaten 3-1 by the Dallas Fuel. They're still the Pacific division leaders, but Fuel now have a shot at the playoffs. 

Had an engagement photo session with Hannah and Kaellen this afternoon.  I enjoy it and am good at it and despite my lack of formal training it's not like I've had no training; the art degrees furthermore at BYU-I are emphases rather than distinct degrees themselves, so my emphasis in graphic design is just as much a BA in Arts as someone's with an emphasis in photography. So far I haven't been paid for any of my photography work, but I do have something of a portfolio of photographs. Job? Job.

Tennis at noon. I'm burned to a crisp.

Thursday, June 14, 2018

It's a Thursday Post!

http://whateveriwant7.blogspot.com/2018/06/aint-been-posting-much.html

Forgot to mention this blogpost, guest post on my brother's blog. According to the schedule there I should be, what, posting on Instagram today?? Man I'm so bad at this; I'd forget to eat if not for getting hungry.

Last post here title mentioned three hiatuses, mine being the third. Andrew used the word hiatus to describe what had been happening on his blog; Alex's blog there's a lot of twenty one pilots Hiatus stuff. So thought it would be, like, worth calling it a third hiatus, my YouTube stuff.

Monday, June 11, 2018

Financial Breathing Room; Explaining the 3rd Hiatus

So I'm basically financially settled, enough to... hold on let me check, alright it doesn't look like it's gone through yet but...

Once the refund of the money from my college i-card back to my bank account goes through, I'm good, all my subscriptions can float through for the next couple months and I'll be able to pay for them. After tithing, which I've calculated the exact amount for, and which I'll finally be able to pay, thanks to grandparents' monetary donation upon my graduation. I'm not making any money, and there's only a remote possibility that my position at Camp Fleischmann this summer is going to be anything but volunteer, but I am nonetheless at least not in any sort of debt.

My debt to my sister, from putting me through that last semester, is paid, as of today. I have no debt from college loans or anything. Monthly, I do pay $59 to my Patreon causes; there's $4 or $5 in other monthly subscriptions as well. Those are covered for the next few months. No longer the $29 a month from Adobe, for now... 

I meant to cancel, upon graduation, but only bothered to learn how a few days ago; $60ish had already gone through by this time, paying for a subscription I wasn't using. I meant to get a refund of that money, if possible; even if I had been using Adobe services I would feel skeezy for paying like $40 a month less than I owed now that I'm out of college, so I'd consider it fair if I couldn't get the refund.

I didn't ask for that refund though. Chickened out I guess? There's a 90 day free thing they entice you with if you threaten to quit them, which I accepted but won't be able to use much. Not that I'm using my Adobe anyway, but especially not when I'll be at camp without computer. Still I'm not paying for it; still it's just a palliative.

Urgh. So I had the Adobe this whole time, access to Premiere Pro, the ability to edit a vlog of last month. I only got a few photographs, and no video coverage, of the furry convention, but that still would have made fairly decent vloggage. There's time this month to vlog before setting off to camp, and next month we arrive back with one day to spare to edit and put up a vlog... but no I don't really want to do that. I wonder if I would had I vlogged last month, but the idea that I would only have one day to slap something together was in the back of my mind when I hiatus'd the YouTube channel.

YouTube content for the sake of content is one of the saddest things in the world, so I wouldn't go that route, even with all these content ideas that teem from my brain. Not as easy as that either; I have the ability to write, host, and edit content, but it's one of those triangles where you have to pick two legs of the three, as you'd burn out otherwise. Which...

Friday, June 8, 2018

Weakly Post

So 2.1's been on, the whole time, just in sleep mode, while we were in Oregon, and it hadn't crashed at all, sitting there doing nothing. Now I'm doing something on it, but doing so gingerly. So.

Turn my back for a week and now the comments are swarming with spams. That's great. I'll fix it later.

Leaving for scout camp in about a week, and being gone for a few months, but there's got to be a better blogging solution than just, not posting, the way I've been doing. I could try writing it all up front and scheduling it for later, like that ever turned out well... Every weekend there's time for a trip into town, and town has wifi, so writing it all up front and scheduling it for later on a weekly basis is another possibility... but what computer would I use? The only reason I can use this one is because I'm keeping it exactly where it is, in its spot on the floor, and not moving it or even jostling it too roughly. So I don't know.