good evening, back from school run, pizza club and finding out my ten year old likes grime.

16% power left on the laptop, the battery runs down quick on this thing even thou i’ve been here for a little while typing and adding credit to my account with little scratch cards — i’ve basically been putting bits of cash aside over the last few weeks towards getting a new green screen to improve the quality of the recordings and so i can quickly set about recording without the faff of the current setup, i want to be able to pull up and put away with ease, the ghetto fab one had become a faff.

we walked into town today, in total i crushed another 16k of steps, seems to be well over a ten k steps days over the last week, that must be why i’m extra tired more than usual, i mean i slept for seven hours yesterday but i was still wiped early on after we had pizza in town together.

i’m glad we ended doing that actually instead of going for something bigger, i left the place feeling 80/20 but still ready for sleeps, we got supplies in for the next week so it means i can start to prep the courses and graphics over the next few days, also got some more work (old client) wanting to book some hours tomorrow, be good to speak to her again.

setup ella when we got back home so she could have her minecraft and youtube time and turns out she’s well into grime music, she’s ten and i’m not sure how i feel about her pseudo rapping, she’s not really sure what’s she’s saying and even thou the words are not offensive saying pap pap pap at volume because she’s got headphones in makes me concerned for her early teen years. i mean sure, i was a teenager but i think it’s different for girls right, not that i’m trying to get her off grime but at some point i need to fully detail her on the culture of hip hop and crime culture and it’s source.

feeling exhausted tonight if i’m honest, it’s nice to be sitting on the bed area however in the warmth, everyone behind a screen for the moment and i’ve got this music video slash skate video on that i’ve just got recently, it’s back ground beats and visuals while i write, it’s only eight thirty damn, i must be getting old.

oh wait a minute, i am, i just turned forty five (i promise i’ll shush up about it soon ok?) — must get that replacement battery and SSD drive for this laptop and then i’ll be in really good shape for mobile blogging again, onwards and upwards eh — i’ve got a LOT to write this year.

next missions are to get these debts down i built up with @dayleeo last year with steemit and such like, dig out the car, upgrade the camera and lights for the course recording and live streaming area and get a new gaming system put together so i can finally get streaming if not daily at least once a week to compliment all the accounts.

to start with i think just streaming some music, video, chats and our virtual working together will be semi interesting breaking into gaming after all the client work for the day is done, obviously we are not gonna show client stuff but certainly work on the projects and especially the wire framing and learning as we build out some of the sketch concepts.

i guess i’m really trying to rush things but i kinda feel like time is running through our fingers, i don’t wanna be held up doing this stuff, these things feel like foundation stones for the other things to be built, without them i can’t save for the van, kit out the van, travel around, document and capture if i’m not got the foundations in place. you know? i know we all have the same things to achieve, bit by bit, day by day right?

we still have two weeks of january, i’m glad the premium minutes of the skillshare course has gone up else i’d be trying to do more on the course front to offset that, i’ve still only just broken the surface of what can be done with residuals and that really could take a lot of stress out of making sure i have my work side locked down.

things change so quickly with clients i don’t want to be constantly hunting down new ones especially when on the road or coming across land or friendships leading to more hands on projects, i know steemit is going to play a big part of my life this year too.

i have started to put together the words for the steemit collab video #3, i do hope a bunch of new people take part in it, i’m trying to expand it to forty lines this time so forty people involved, that reminds me i need to record a line for a video that @anomad is doing, he’s doing a music video so he wants me to record a line but i’ll do mine with ella as well while she is here! :)

alright, i’m on 2% battery, time to change things up, take some time out and hope this syncs up with my iCloud so i can pick this up on the main machine in the morning.