8.24.19

I re-wrote something I wrote last night to be less wordy and I think the previous draft was too personal.
I'm good. Just been busy I guess.

Work -
Work has been good. I'm hoping to stay at this job at least 5-10 years so long as it doesn't change. I'm still at my part-time job, but I don't know how long I will stay. I just got a pay increase, hourly, at my current job due to my experience. I will be applying for on-call positions for the next level. While this will be the highest paid position I could try to attain, it could take years to move up in seniority for the next level; where I start out working like 4 days a year. Eventually you try to work 3 days a week at least. With the extra money I'm earning, I plan on being responsible and opening up a retirement account and putting a portion of it in that. I am also looking at investing small amounts of money too for me and my future family's sake.

Video game collecting -
I haven't really talked about this. I'm "mostly" done. I've been batching ordering games online. I have games I still want to collect, but they're expensive, so I will be slowly down on this front and chipping it away gradually. I have a finite list of games I want and this is the last part.

Other personal -
Kind of looking for a house. We'll see what happens. I think we're getting to a point where we need to think about our future more.
Also, our new kitten is around 3 months old now and acts like a normal kitten. Meows a lot and runs around the house everywhere.

Twitch -
I've cancelled some subs. I'm just re-routing some finances. I will be turning to gifting some subs though.
In terms of my channel. I'm rescinding a schedule. I'm also not going to be accepting donations anymore. I'll leave sub options and bits up, but I'm largely demonetizing my channel. I'm going to trim the panels down and going to start streaming with no cam and feel it out. I'll speedrun again I just have to play more games. Which I'm making an effort now, although I have been playing more modern games and some indies.

AGDQ at the moment is a maybe. I just have to ask my boss and I'm hoping he'll give me it off. He's new and just got promoted but nice. It's just during the busiest week of the year here every year and that can be cause for concern.