Just a little update for August (Patreon)

Since it has been a couple of weeks since I uploaded anything,  I thought I'd give a little update on what has been going on.  First off, my wife decided we were going to replace our flooring in the house by ourselves.. well, that's turned into a multi-week project in and of itself, taking way more time than I originally thought.  So my house has been a disaster and we've even had furniture and junk crammed in my studio room.  So that's really put a damper on any video production.  Good news is that we're about 95% done as of today and should be finished in the next few days.

Despite the flooring, I have been working on the PowerMcc G5 episode the last 2 weeks since I have it setup in my office room, but I also ran into several roadblocks on this.   For example, I wasted several days trying to get some form of Linux to install, but eventually gave up.  That was going to be a big part of the episode, but now it is cut out.  There were several other scenes I wanted to film but couldn't for one reason or another.  So I think what was originally a 20 minute episode will now probably end up being closer to 6 minutes.  I'm about 80% done filming it, but I haven't even started editing yet.  So I would imagine it will be another week before it is online. 

And I also have just run into a bit of "writers block" trying to figure out what to even talk about on this thing.    And I learned a valuable lesson.  Most of the time I make videos about stuff I'm passionate and knowledgable about.  This video was done because so many people requested it, even though I really had no enthusiasm about this computer.  I think it's simply another case of trying to make everyone happy. I think that will be reflected in the quality of the video, unfortunately.  As such, in the future I'll be sure to stick with projects that I'm enthusiastic about.  And fortunately, I have a long list of those to make.

I've bought quite a few vintage electronics items with my Patreon money that I'm going to be doing episodes about, although 75% of those items are for 8-Bit Keys.  I guess I have so many things lined up for The 8-Bit Guy that I don't need to buy very much for it right now.   They aren't all keyboards either.  For example, I got a really neat multi-track recorder that uses standard audio cassettes.  So I'm going to show how multi-track music was done at home in the 1980's.   I also bought various vintage electronic items to restore, since people do love restoration videos and I like making them!