#PastebinMonday 12/20/2021 Christmas Time is Near Edition

Hey guys, how’s it goin?

Life has taught me to not be particularly festive. It's also conditioned me to deal with people as little as possible, yet networking with other people is vital for financial gain. Look, what I'm saying is don't look to me for general life lessons, okay? That said, Christmas time is near and that means I get a day off from work for Christmas Eve. It feels like I should do something special, but I'm not the kind of person to specifically plan for such an occasion. Perhaps the puzzle community will do something special?

In any case, there are a bunch of things I want to “do,” but my time I have to do them is currently being consumed by a slow editing process. I do not make enough from YouTube and Twitch to hire someone to edit every video I want to make. I can't expect anyone to sift through the double-digit hours of footage I have for every month of salt content and expect it to get turned into 15-20 minutes of concentrated salt in a reasonable time and expect to not be charged an arm and a leg for it. I could easily blow my entire annual Twitch and YouTube budget on just ONE of those videos—and I'm currently FOUR months back! At this point, I expect to be “on time” for the next one and not fall further behind, but I don't expect to be able to ever catch up to a point where I can make the other videos I want to make, i.e. Puzzle League tutorials, without sacrificing a significant portion of my broadcast time. It's funny; the dream full-time schedule I posted a while back had me not stream on Monday and Tuesday PM hours, but it looks on my end that my viewership peaks at the start of the week and trails off at the end. I'm not sure what all I can do with this full-time job weighing me down right now. That is a dialogue I am welcome to have with you guys so I can give you more of what you want to see.

I'll be back on Twitch at 8pm ET tonight and every day all week grinding Pokemon Puzzle League Easy mode. I expect the extra time off from work to go to planning a different stream interface. I have not gotten organized in a minute.

That’s my life story for the week. Until next time, everyone, thanks for reading!

--Cards