I had to leave town for about a week. I realized that it's the longest I've been out of Austin since I moved here five years ago. I got way behind on videos. I thought I'd have time to record/film some stuff while I was in Tampa but I didn't get the occasion. I did get some footage that I plan on using somehow in videos.


Also, Tampa is pretty nice! I absolutely loved the old trolleys (though I never got to use one). I was there for a work-related event and wish I had stayed a bit closer to downtown. That said, the hotel room I got was basically an apartment just outside of downtown and it was extremely comfortable.

This week had been taking up a lot of my time over the past couple months, not to mention my mental stress. That said, I'm going to reorganize how I am putting out videos with my new responsibilities as a Reddit Mod (cringe... Joking!...kinda). I think I'm going to take a page out of early RT/RvB and make all of my short videos for the week on Thursday nights. I work from home on Fridays so I can stay up a bit later and take care of the whole week in one night. I'll have to grab footage during the week but I'm down to about 45 mintues of production/editing time outside of the initial filming. Of course, I try to stretch it and learn new techniques, because that's the secondary point of all this.

Also, I've been looking more seriously at film school. Specifically, I am the most excited about screenwriting. I wrote a novel (historical fiction) over Covid and I am pretty happy with it, but I have always wanted to write a movie. I was about halfway through 'Save The Cat!' and Syd Field's book. More on all this later....

For this weekend, the plan is to keep up the momentum and make use of my new free time. My fiance and I are going to go to a little Pokemon Card Convention up in Williamson County. We've never gone to a Pokemon event so we just want to go and get some cool looking cards.

A few long form videos are coming. I posted one last night about the new website. I was a little nervous about it, though. Burnie had said during the closed beta to not share the website. However, with the open beta people it essentially became fully open to the public. I wanted to get something out there and I made sure to tell people to not let my video be their first view of the website and gave them the link to head straight here. Luckily, in the analytics I can see a huge drop off at that timestamp, so it looks like people came straight here! Maybe I'm being a little overly cautious about it, but I'd rather lean more towards safe than sorry.

Alright, gotta get back to work. Take care everyone!