Update Blog - 11/21/20 (Patreon)

Forget this year, for me, this month has been completely insane where most of my technology went haywire, especially my computer. As it turned out, the reason why it was having problems last week was because the harddrive was getting busted and I was in need of a new one to keep it up to date with the power that today's software needs in order to run. Thankfully, since I've got it back on Tuesday, I've been putting myself back on track and making sure everything with my computer is working well (which I can confirm that it is). So now I can return what I should've been doing in the first place and get back to work on these videos.

- Released a new episode of Q&A with AniMat: The one catch that came from my repairs (other than the big bill to pay to fix it) is that I had to delay my schedule by a week in order to give me more time to complete the bigger projects that are coming up. Thankfully, the timing of this did provide me to have a video come out this week. While it is one of the smaller vlog-type ones, at least it is something. I will say that with this particular episode is that I did have a tough time choosing which questions to answer because many people did ask some pretty solid questions. In fact, I probably would've had enough to make 2 or more episodes using some of the questions I've been asked. However, with the selected 10, I wanted to keep it more positive with a good balance of fun, inspiring and personal. Just to keep it straightforward and maybe have the viewers walk off with something new coming out of it. Also, maybe that something new could be from that PIA VPN plug I did (yes, I know people get annoyed by sponsorships, but considering my recent issues, the money is definitely needed). It's not much, but in the emergency that I recently was, at least I had something this week.

- What I've done while my computer was being repaired: From Saturday to Tuesday, I was left without my computer to work on any of my recent projects and the most I could do was dust off an older computer and use that as my temporary work station. However, without my recording and editing software, there wasn't a whole lot I could do. I can say that it was quite miraculous that I even pulled off my podcast last week with all the last-minute prepping up I had to do like downloading all the softwares needed and getting all the websites back to get the stuff to talk about (AND having a guest star at the same time). However, other than that, the only thing I could do in terms of work is just doing some writing, since it only requires me to have Microsoft Word. During that time, I did advance a bit on future projects that I'm sure I'll benefit later when I have to really dive into them. I wrote the plug for PIA VPN, I wrote the opening of an upcoming Editorial and I even wrote an entire review for a future ACR. While they weren't the projects I was working on before my computer crashed, at least I could say that I did do something in the meantime.

- Finishing the editing Part 12 of AL: Walt Disney Animation Studios +: After taking the time to make sure my computer is fully back in shape and did the Q&A for this week, I can finally get back to what I've wanted to do during all this and finish off the long-awaited Part 12 of AL:WDAS+. While I'm not completely done now as you're reading this, I am putting the finishing touches and making revisions to make sure that everything should be ready for next week. Going back to it after a week-long sudden break, this part will actually come out really well and even if these movies aren't the most remembered from Disney's animation collection, there is some good trivia that they offer and not to mention that this is during a very important moment in modern Disney history when the companies switched CEOs from Eisner to Iger. This week, my computer came back, but next week, AL will come back!

- REMINDER FOR PATRONS $50+/MONTH: This month's Discord Chat will be happening on Sunday the 22th and at 2pm EST. Let me know if you're not available for either so I'll organize a quick chat.

And that has been my grueling week of the biggest emergency I had since I went to the ER a couple of months ago (wow, 2020 also had times it really screwed me over, did it?). Now all that's left is to make sure I'm fully back on track and well advanced to be comfortably back to producing more content, which I think next week will give me enough time to do so. Thank you all for the support during that insane time and, until next time...

See ya later, dudes!