choosing the next video (Patreon)

I'm not the type of youtuber to have a calendar planned out with the videos I plan to produce. Usually I spend some time after finishing a video just exploring other video topics. The current top contenders for the next video are either a "lightsaber" build based on my bank of car batteries, a huge "demon circuit" with a 100kW vacuum tube, or simply the 5th episode of the chemical formulary series.  In the meantime, I've been confined mostly indoors due to the recent winter storms and cold snap. No complaints on that, I actually like this weather. My cats love it as well.

On a more personal note, I've had a bit of a health scare this past week. In short, I requested my testosterone levels to be measured in a routine blood draw, and found that they are so high that they are beyond what the instruments can measure accurately. This may sound like a good thing, but it prompted a bunch of testing for cancer and I spent the week in total panic getting this testing done. Thankfully, cancer seems to have been mostly ruled out at this point, but I'm still trying to get answers, and I've become "that guy" requesting bizarre testing to look for rare diseases. Hopefully, whatever is wrong with me isn't *that* bad.

pictures
1: interesting scaly icy crystal formation on my pond
2: typical shopping cart when I'm filming a video
3. one of many cute stray cats that show up at my house
4. batteries covered in snow on a day where the *high* temp was -10F / -23C