#PastebinMonday 03/31/2025 I'm Being Evicted Edition

I'm Being Evicted Edition

'Sup, doods.

Here is how it happened. So, I've lived at the same place for nearly 20 years, pretty much my entire adult life. The landlord(s) have generally been chill. The original owner passed away several years ago, their children took the business over, and everything remained business as usual. My family originally moved there with a referral from my younger brother's school at the time after our previous home was lost to an electrical fire. The place had multiple areas of needed repairs, but the rent was CHEAP. The “best” part is that the rent has gotten “cheaper” over time relative to what else is available here. The only comparable houses I can find ask for twice the rent. I don't know if I feel “blessed” to be here or “trapped” here.

In recent months, the landlord has floated the idea of downsizing on the dozens of properties that they own. As I understood it, they had every intention of keeping my property after the downsizing.

On Friday, my landlord texted my mother, the only one on the lease, if she was at home. They then went to the house to deliver a letter addressed to all of the family.

It was a letter of eviction. They were selling the house after all and needed us to get out so it can be inspected. They were not willing to incur the necessary expenses to fix the place. There is A LOT to fix.

After my mother told me about the letter, I got home and looked at it. It was a fairly standard and innocuous notice of eviction. The most fortunate thing about the notice was that it gave us until May 29 to find a new place.

I've been telling you doods for a long time that I've been saving up to buy a house. I THINK I can afford a 10% down payment right now. I'm gonna try to meet with my bank this week to check my options. I'm checking with my credit card's bank. I'm checking if my retirement account can be of use. I'm exhausting whatever I can to fulfill this life goal, dood.

Speaking of goals, I also had a goal to not embarrass myself during the Tetris Attack tournament after I lost to WizardPerson. Mission accomplished, doods. I am into the V-Hard rounds now and thebfin314, the #1 seed, has fallen to my position in Losers Quarterfinals. I've historically won this matchup in this round, but I would not be embarrassed to lose here. I'll keep up the training again this week, too.

Now if you'll excuse me, doods, I need to look up new places to live.


Today's (permanent) extra streaming goals:

Goal #1: record footage for my Puzzle League tutorial series. The scripts are done! I am now challenging myself to find time amidst my tournament duties to work on recording the gameplay. I would then need voice-over on top of that. In a perfect world, I would be done with all of that in a month, but in light of recent developments, I have ZERO time to start this.
Goal #2: release the Puzzle League tutorial series YouTube shorts once a day until they're all done. I really do think I need to time the release of the series with a ramping up of my streaming schedule so that I can take advantage of whatever there is to gain from releasing the shorts. I have come to realize that if I am going to make my target date, I need to put this above everything else because I don't have as much time or motivation during the week as I thought I would.
Goal #3: clean up my own stream layout. Most of the framework necessary for a semi-proper stream is done now thanks to streaming the process, though I'm not currently motivated to stream any other part of it at the moment. Next major objective is to make alerts. I have stream reaction clips to put in. Emotes, one or two alternate overlay themes, and alternate timer themes would come soon after. As soon as I think of things to put in, I will add them to the list. I added a list in a dedicated channel in my Discord server. If you have any time to kill and want to contribute, check it out.
Goal #4: catch up on video archives that I have yet to upload since I restarted streaming. I may put them on a separate channel.
Goal #5: edit personal best videos in Tetris Attack Easy – V-Hard (post commentary recorded) and Normal (post commentary recorded)—and everything I did in Pokemon Puzzle Week—and that S-Hard PB—and that V-Hard WR—and that Easy – S-Hard WR—and that TA Easy PB—and another Easy – V-Hard PB (twice). Standalone archival videos are already attached to my speedrun profile. I'm hoping to make eye-catching productions from each speedrun. I'm considering it to be my personal test to be a YouTuber. I am failing miserably right now.
Goal #6: finalize the tournament layout once and for all in a way that I can adapt for every game we might play. Until someone volunteers to help broadcast the matches in my stead, this is not actually a top priority. I feel like making this happen will encourage others to help out, not the other way around. There has been little interest so far.


This week's schedule:

Wednesday @8pm-10pm ET – TA2025 Training
Thursday @8pm-10pm ET – TA2025 Training
Friday @8pm-11pm ET – Friday Night Salt Mines – Trying Not to Be One-And-Done Edition, Doods!
Saturday @2pm-4pm ET – twitch.tv/puzzlespeedrun – TA2025 Endless Tourney
Sunday @2pm-4pm ET – twitch.tv/puzzlespeedrun – TA2025 Losers Quarters


That’s my life story for the week. Until next time, everyone, be decent to each other. Later, doods!

--Cards