This week is a bit of a disaster too. Not necessarily in the terrible way (honestly, last week, even getting stuck for three days at the DFW airport wasn't the worst, because I stayed in a hotel, so I slept OK, ate OK, etc.). I've had a terrible cold ever since I got home. A little before, actually. Sleeping well has been a real challenge. As soon as I lay down, drainage starts going crazy and I'm stuffed up and start coughing a LOT. When I'm awake and up, it's OK. Being vertical improves the drainage a lot. But, of course, I can't sleep standing or sitting up very well. So I'm kinda miserable and tired all of the time. Also, there's a lot of craziness at work, and we're pretty short-handed; two people are off on medical and one quit and hasn't been replaced yet (although I think he was reluctant; but he was commuting the better part of an hour and a half one-way. It wasn't really sustainable.) So, I'm not exactly relaxing and getting hobby stuff done this week, let's just say. I'm exhausted both physically and in many ways mentally at the end of the work day, and I'm lucky if I can veg in front of the TV and play some overlanding youtube videos or something.
Yesterday was also my birthday. While of course everyone likes a birthday, it means that I'm on the phone most of the evening with family, I go out to eat, and in my case, I got to make my wife watch something that I'd been wanting to watch with her to see if she'd like, and she couldn't complain. (First two episodes of Longmire is what I picked. I was kinda under the gun to think of something, and that's what first came to mind.) Dinner was, unfortunately, mediocre. I went to place that I used to like, but I haven't been in a long time, and I haven't been here in our new location, and the experience was less than I hoped for. I don't know if this is unfortunate or not, but I've enough rewards on my wife's rewards program for a $10 off, so we'll probably go back again relatively soon, but I'm not going to suggest it for a while.
I also went out to lunch to a BBQ place that I like, and I didn't find that as good as I remember either. Although that may in part be driven by the fact that I was back in Texas last week and had some pretty dang good burnt end brisket while I was there, of course, so my Texas style BBQ here on the southern east coast (sorta) was not as good.
I've also had to chase around a lot of personal issues. I spent several hours on Monday at the DMV, for instance. I have to go pick up a car today. I have to take my wife to the airport and then drive out of town myself tomorrow evening. I admit to feeling a bit exhausted. Next week, I'll be back in my house up north with my son and daughter-in-law and their three little kids. That should be mostly fun and relaxing. I know my son will want to play Dominion all the time. I like that game, but I doubt I really want to play it more than two or three times all week tops. My daughter and son-in-law also live there in town. Maybe I can even get another D&D session in with them? They're the ones that I tried to start Shadows Over Garenport with, but it didn't really come together in more than one session before I moved. And if I get tired and remain sickish, I'll probably want to lay around, sleep and read.
Sigh. Real life, y'all. My blogging and vlogging goals are not happening quite the way I want them to. In any case, here's a video to watch. In addition to what he says, I think part of the problem is people who try and make their hobbies into something that pays all their bills. Living off of your hobbies sounds fun, but I doubt that it really is, because it sounds too stressful to me. My own youtube forays are just for my own benefit, and whether anyone at all finds and enjoys my videos is immaterial to me. I don't do it for them, I don't do it to "grow my channel" or to even make some side hustle money. I make them because it's my hobby, and I like to talk about my hobby. There's too many people trying really hard to not work conventionally in the hobby youtube space, and it's not good for their content, honestly.
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