Its been quite a while since I’ve posted on here, I’ve kept myself busy and I’ve managed to avoid doing much of anything productive or that I’d set out to do. My weight has actually gone up, my grades are worrisome, and I feel like I’ve done nothing. That’s really the worst of it, I don’t feel like I’ve accomplished anything. Now this post has a negative start to it and the next paragraph is negative, but bear with me, there’s some positive content to follow.

I managed to gain 5 pounds in a month, loose some muscle mass, and add an inch on my waist. I started a workout program thanks to /r/fitness and I’m going to start a diet plan when I go grocery shopping this Saturday. My goal is to be at 168 lbs by Thanksgiving. That’s a 10 pound loss or so. Manageable if difficult.

My youtube channel has only gained a handful of subscribers and I think I know the reason: Everyone and their brother does video game let’s plays. I… I don’t know anymore. I feel that I’ve tried to use a formula that so many other have done that anyone that sees my post just sees “Another video game channel” and I want to do more with it. I started out doing video games just because I didn’t have the space or means to do anything else. I lost site of that and now that i have a job that gives me some more time and a steady income I feel like experimenting with content now. I’m going to finish Valley, but I don’t plan on starting anything else, Enderal and Fallout 4… well I plan on playing them in my spare time.

I want to talk about issues in ecology, stuff going on in the world that’s affecting nature, do my part educating everyone, launching into discussions and explanations about headlines like the Hawaiian bees being added to endangered species list, and safe, proper, and fun hunting, fishing, and hiking practices. I want to show how to cook different things, share recipes, bring back old and nearly forgotten camp and travel recipes, experiment with new stuff and share the results. I want to make things out of wood,leather, and metal, and help get others interested in learning those crafts too and get better myself as I teach. I want to show off food items you can forage, medicinal (actual medicine, not hallucinogens) plants and how to make medicine from them, and using it safely.

Needless to say many of these things make decent video content, and I’ll still do some let’s plays if there’s a game I really like, but I want to make my channel unique. I want it to be different, a custom, unusual blend of all these things that I like to do and a few more once I figure out how to make it work as a video. I also know that all these things make excellent material for blogs, and I’m really considering trying to set up an website to condense everything together (and add some ad revenue) as well as add a shop to push a few of the goods I can produce and supplies, instructions, diagrams… all the works. The website is at least a few weeks off from sharing, but it’s not terribly costly especially if i actually go through with my plan.