10.6.2019

happy sunday.

-what's new with giygas

1. as of today, I've been at my new job for 6 months. This job has changed my life in terms of hours, financials, benefits, everything. I work in a restaurant, and I have health, dental, and vision insurance; a retirement plan, paid vacation time. I interact with people for 6 hours, have 1 hour of cleaning and set-up, and 1 hour of break every day.
2. I put my 2 weeks notice at my part-time job. I was/am essentially working 7 nights a week, as I gave up working double shifts months ago.
3. I made a local friend for once in a very long time and we're actually like, doing things and hanging out and it's weird, because I'm very much a loner. We've been eating out once a week (changing to every other week potentially), and I plan on running with him and doing other stuff. It just feels weird.

-why no stream?
1. I'm tired. I'm treasuring sleep. Dunno if it's a 30s age thing, but I've been in a fairly consistent good mood while attempting to get a good night's sleep every night, except that I sleep in the morning since I work at night.
2. I'm casual gaming a lot to do a little catch up on new releases.
3. My time is kind of limited.
-- when I was living with my parents, I didn't cook, didn't pay rent, pretty much worked 5 hours a night 4 days a week and was able to consistently stream 8-12 hours a day. My typical day is sleep from 7am-3:30pm. Get ready and leave for work at 3:45. Hang out in employee dining room, change, and clock in at 5. I finish at 12 and take my break at last hour from 12-1. I typically leave around 12:30am anyway. I usually get home at 1am and hang out with misses giygas until she passes out between 2am-2:30am (this is the only time I see her unless we both have a day off, usually thursdays). Sometimes I'll head out to the gym early. I've been going to the gym around 3 days a week. so I go to the gym usually from around 2:30am-4:30am or 3:00am-5:00am, it fluctuates (I usually run an errand before the gym). On gym days, I haven't been gaming at all and I usually watch something on the Adult Swim app and pass out. On non-gym days, I've been gaming for about 4-6 hours playing new releases. On my radar right now is Link's Awakening (about 1/3 through), Contra Rogue Corps, and Dragon Quest XI S. My backloggery has an astounding 600 games in my backlog, but I don't really care about that too much. This doesn't include the 300 steam games I need to get to.
-- thursdays misses gigyas and I usually have off (I've been giving away my thursday shifts). and she likes to not lounge around the house too much. we typically go out for lunch, go shopping (from groceries to whatever she wants [clothes, makeup, etc.]). We usually end up lounging in the evening anyway if there's time and I get more gaming in. Holy heck, some of these new releases are way too long. And then we usually go out for dinner. Don't know if it's noticeable, but I don't really cook. And she is a chef and doesn't want to cook at home. 1-2 nights a week I also watch a few hours of anime.

-k, what else?
well, with me FINALLY going down to one job, I'll have two days off a week. I have the same days off every week. Thursdays and Fridays.
I was speedrunning Whipseey offline, but didn't submit a very good run to AGDQ of it. I'll probably improve that when I speedrun again.

- I'm not really interested in having a schedule. I honestly can't keep a schedule for anything in my life. I never stick to a schedule.
- I've revised my twitch page to downplay support, with the exception of subbing. It's the only thing left I'm going to leave up. Donations are not to be accepted, unless I am in a situation that requires it.

-Stream?
- I'm not sure what I'm going to do with stream. I've mulled around the idea of streaming one day every week for like 12 hours on one of my days off. But I don't know if I want to do it every week. Maybe every other week. misses giygas asked how people do 24 hour streams and I told her the preparation with food and taking breaks and she is extremely supportive. offering to cook for me if I would do a 24 hour stream, even telling me if I don't get back to streaming, she'll sell my games from my game collection.
- I'm generally undecided right now. The weather is really good right now and I kind of want to go hiking every week too. There's a bunch of other stuff I want to do too. Change the strings on my bass and guitar and take off the rust. My buddy from my part-time job also wants to work on a game or something. so I was thinking of doing some tutorials too.

I'm just generally not interested in selling out to twitch and trying to make that a career anymore. or even a side-gig. only for fun. my co-worker at my new job is starting to skyrocket with youtube with 70,000 subscribers and a few videos with over 1 million views and I was considering maybe my dry sense of humor might be better there making videos with his help. who knows. I might just do 24 hour streams every 2-4 weeks and play some games and speedrun waldo.

that's all i got.
see some of you at agdq.