Howdy, everyone.
I looked at my last post, and discovered that it has been about 4 days over a year since my last post. And a lot has happened this past year--some you know about, some you probably don't. At any rate, I'm here to fill you in!
On the Parkinson's front, not much has transpired of late. Most of the year I was fairly stable. Toward the end of the year, I noticed having a harder time typing. I've been working all year as well, part time. First doing sampling at a Sam's Club for Crossmark, then when the Covid-19 virus hit, that naturally got shut down. Lenita, at the time, was also working there.
So for a while, we worked at Sam's Club, as Crossmark employees. Then, first Lenita shifted over to working for Sam's as a Sam's employee around May or June. I stuck it out longer, waiting for what even today hasn't come: the restarting of sampling and the end of the covid restrictions. I became employed in August at Sam's as well.
Well, when i started having a harder time typing, it reminded me that my time is short, and I have so many more stories and projects that I wanted to do, that I made a decision toward the end of December to quit my job to focus on my writing and my new passion of late: my Linux podcast!
Yep, that's right, despite my sometimes muffled voice and PD affected vocal chords, I do a podcast on YouTube and Lbry called "Not a Linux Guru Guy". 21 episodes later, and I have around 16 subscribers last I checked. WhooHoooo! I'm on a role now! I'll make, at this rate, 1000 subscribers sometime in, say 2025? lol.
So unlike many folk, we haven't been financially struggling. Actually, we are doing about as well as we have at any point in our life. I can't complain.
So, I've been working on one chapter in this new book I've been working on, "Ally's Angelic Adventures" for most of last year! One silly little chapter that I struggled over most of the year, picking at it here and there--watch it be the favorite chapter of the book! But since completing that chapter toward the end of the year, I've written three more--one chapter I wrote in one day!
But I realized how little I've done on the writing/publishing front when I attended the 2nd annual craft fair at our church, and I had to tell people that I didn't publish anything new since last year. So, I've also started editing the second book that I wrote several years ago in the "Legend of the Dragons' Dying Field" series titled "The Dragon Within," the first being "The Magic Within." I hope to publish at least that book, maybe the one I'm working on as well, I'll publish this year. . . stay tuned.
So, overall I'm still doing well both on the PD front, though it is threatening again to start getting worse, but I'm setting myself up to accomplish as much as possible for 2021, both on the writing front and the podcast front, as well as daily life.
So, for 2020, I have been busy. I'll try to stay more on top of keeping you folks updated on my progress.
One other thing, I'll probably be moving this blog over to a different format. I'll most likely leave this blog here on blogger, but expect a post at some point soon to let you folk know where to look for any future posts.
Also, I wanted to apologize for starting and abruptly stopping my PD Man channel. I posted around 5 videos total before I started having a hard time movtivating myself to do more. When that happens, and it no longer is "fun" and "enjoyable" then it is going to come through that way. It was a good idea, but I also tended to feel that there was enough people out there doing the same thing, but who are more qualified than I am doing it, that I began to wonder what I was actually bring to the table that was worth my time?
I can here people thinking, "But, what is so important about Linux?" Well, that is a loaded question, but I've long learned that whatever you do, you do it to help others. That's what makes it "important." And if I can enjoy doing it, it means I will keep going at it until it is no longer "enjoyable." Which hasn't happened yet, and I don't foresee it happening in the future either.
I'll try my best to not let another year go by without a post. Until next time, keep everthing great!
