Various updates on my life (Patreon)

I have the feeling it'll be a while before I get another video out and I figured I'd just let everyone know what's going on. Things have been tough for various reasons, and then I had a huge additional pile of stress literally dumped on me a few days ago.

Seattle's recent not-a-hurricane brought down a tree branch in my yard. Nobody's hurt, but one of my neighbors cars was destroyed, the other severely damaged, my shed got trashed, and the tree (which is huge and already in bad health for years) is probably an even bigger risk than it already was.

I'm trying to help the neighbor out with cash and a spare fixer-upper to replace the totaled vehicle, but there's still a big overhanging branch that could destroy both our vehicles (the first one narrowly missed mine) and if the other side of the tree collapses it'll destroy his house. And I don't know if I can actually do anything about that. We got a quote to remove the tree and it was $35k. That's untenable, so I don't know what to do other than wait and hope we get a smaller number; we suspect the arborists are gouging to profiteer off the storm.

I had to buy a chainsaw and rent a truck to haul off the branch that was in my yard; it took two trips, and if the scale at the dump is to be believed, that branch weighed 1500 pounds. This was like... maybe 10% of the total mass of the tree? So, the situation sucks. Oh, and I don't have the faintest idea what to do about the shed; I kind of need it, but the doors have been obliterated and can't be replaced, so anything I put in there will get stolen. Good times.

To stress: I'm not asking for additional donations or anything. I don't even think money would help, and... I think I have it all more or less under control? It's just demanding a lot of attention and imposing a lot of stress, which is the last thing I need right now.

Because of course I'm once again having weird health issues which (long story short) probably aren't life-threatening, but thanks to insurance tomfoolery (GO AMERICA! USA! USA!) my referral to look into them has been denied and I just do not have the energy to deal with that.

And, though this is absolutely a very minor thing in the grand scheme, everything I've been working on lately (other than the NEC video, which is thankfully performing quite well) has been a mess of dead ends and restarts and I just can't seem to make any solid progress.

Things will probably be fine, I'm just overwhelmed at the moment. When I'm not dealing with the latest catastrophe, I can't get myself to do much more than play Dark Souls and wait for bedtime, so... yeah. I don't know when I'll manage to get back on the horse.

Or, you know, I could have a video out next week; who knows, that's usually how it goes when I say I won't be around for a while. Sometimes I think I make these posts just to motivate myself to muster up the willpower to turn things around, so, we'll see if that happens. Good luck everyone.