August Update (Patreon)

So, there I was, working on the Bioshock video and some consulting work to help me cover stuff when, all of a sudden... my tooth came out. Then my laptop refused to boot. Then my desktop decided it would freeze, all the time, for no reason. As you can see, this makes life somewhat challenging when you're trying to make a video.

The tooth cost $80 to repair, but I apparently need to have more work done, all the way over in Kansas City, and the costs quoted were upwards of $3,000.

The laptop cost about $40 to ship to the repair people, and I'm hoping against hope that they don't try to claim the warranty is invalid for some reason, because I can't really justify the purchase of a new laptop.

The desktop's issue is pretty simple: my video recording hard drive is causing the system to freeze occasionally, for no real reason that I can see. I unplugged it, put it in an enclosure I had lying around, and plugged it back in, and I can access all my files, but I can't really keep it connected to my computer at all times.

Worse still, I don't really have any empty space on my machine right now. That was my mostly-empty recording drive. Its job was to be the empty drive. My other mostly-empty drive is busy holding all the data from my laptop. I need to replace the failed hard drive.

A bunch of other stuff has happened as well, most of it bad news. At least my general attitude is better.

Right now, I'm wondering if I should start tooting my Patreon's horn again, louder than ever before, or, uh... I don't know, to be honest. Life with chronic pain and chronic fatigue sucks. Live in a primarily-Republican state that doesn't really do the whole medicaid/medicare stuff sucks. Lots of stuff sucks. Staying alive is hard, but I'm doing it for the time being.

I'm gonna get this video out come hell or high water, I just need to fix the hard drive problem. I think I have a solution, so hopefully it will get fixed soon.

Oh, and hey, if you have a good solution for web hosting, my time with Squarespace is coming to an end, and I'd rather not pay $100 for a host that won't let me have more than two authors on a site. So yeah, if you know a good webhost that's pretty cheap, lets me have a minimum of, say, five writers, and stuff like that, that would be cool. If not, I'm probably gonna go back to Tumblr. I still need somewhere to post the transcripts of the videos I'm doing.

'cause oh yeah, baby, we got new videos coming.