Thursday was a pretty productive day. I was about to use a livestream as a coworking session to get moving on a hairy programming project! I got my music hardware and software to talk to each other, mostly on purpose! I dug deeper into the mysteries of Google Hangouts! However, I’m starting to think that I’m emphasizing too much process, to the point it is starting to feel self-indulgent. So next week I’d like to try to get back to simple making as the point of the Groundhog Day Resolution posts. There’s two reasons for this I can think of. (more…)

Wednesday was an impromptu day of reorganizing my desk after picking up a new monitor. With my recently dabbling in live streaming on YouTube and Twitch, I’ve wanted to get a 1920×1080 monitor that I could stream at 1:1 size, and figured I might just get a really cheap one for around $100 and be done with it. Besides, I had an old 20″ monitor that has awful color reproduction; even a $100 monitor would be a step up at this point. And thus began my dive into the rabbit hole of monitor purchases. On the plus side, my new reorganized office space is twice as pleasurable to work in as it was before! (more…)

Today was another day of playing with live streaming services. The past few days I had spent time setting up my YouTube Live Streaming channel, and then making some simple “I AM OFFLINE DON’T WORRY” signs. My friend Kitsune Hazard had made a fancy graphic with a fox on it, and I had become instantly envious. This prodded me to do a little impromptu graphic design. (more…)

Following Sunday’s feeling of burnout, I was compelled to review and reassess my focus this week, as far as Groundhog Day Resolutions are concerned. A brief preliminary analysis follows. (more…)