At what point is it too much? I just had a meeting where we created a document about how to create the document for the project plan of a project so that we can present that document in a different meeting. I will literally spend hours doing meetings and documentation around this project before I ever actually get to start doing any real work. Sometimes I miss my crappy menial labor jobs because there you were just told what to do and you did it however you could. No meetings, no paperwork, no documentation. Request for work was presented, work was done, end of day.

Woohoo! A convention near me for once! I will be there!

My first one was Van Halen, which is also my all-time favorite band. The whole night was awesome but I kept waiting for Jump and they never played it. They went off stage and I was kinda disappointed but then they came back out (I was young and it was my first show - I knew nothing of an encore) and absolutely killed it with that song.

Best night ever!

I've been to somewhere around 120 concerts at this point and I still remember how awesome that moment was when I thought they were some and then hears that opening keyboard.

@Minion-Queen Yeah, hectic would be a very under-stated way of describing my life lately. Trying to start a videography business, working on a game review website, managing several youtube channels, I moved a few months back, and I still have my full-time job that I hate... Apparently I decided some time early this year that I was allergic to free time.

@scottalanmiller said:

@ajstringham said:

@Hubtech Agreed. At the moment, EVERYTHING new shows up. That's going to get annoying QUICK!

Quickly [GN]

That is how I have always used SW. One feed with all updates in it. It's not as bad as it seems.

Yeah, I like the idea of having all your subscribed interests show up as unread. That way, you won't miss things that got buried. Think of how quick WC posts get put up on SW. You are bound to miss some. But if each unread one shows in an alert box, you see everything and can comment on all of them!!!! Mwa ha ha!

I often play with fish, yes.

Dumb jokes aside, no, I am not. Mostly because I am absolute rubbish at all things FPS.

When today started out, it was only 4 degrees. Now it's up to almost 15! And with the wind chill it's still above 10. It's almost swimming weather here in NY!

I won't lie, I laughed when I saw it was called Water Closet because even though it's rarely called that here in the states, I know what the term is usually used for and I still find bathroom humor funny (because apparently I'm six.)

Forget emancipation, I would disown that child. Ungrateful little brat.

So I have my Awkward Gamer videos and I decided to buy myself a domain (theawkwardgamer.com) and start up a website for the series. That way I can have blogs and the such to accompany my review videos and when YouTube gets wonky and subscriptions aren't working (which happens often) people can still see my stuff. However, I know nothing about web design or web hosting.

I'm gonna pay for hosting, because it's much cheaper than getting my own server and paying for business-class internet. So, do any of you have any suggestions/recommendations for who is a good web hosting service? I was gonna go with host gator because I heard they were good, but even though they advertise their monthly prices, they charge you in bulk and while I could easily afford $5 or $6 a month, I don't have an extra $180 to pay for the next 3 years up front.

Also, does anyone know of a good web site builder? Preferably something drag and drop with some basic stuff built into it like Blogs or a comments section or shop components?

Oh, and for anyone interested who missed all the spamming of it I did over at SW, here's the Facebook page and YouTube channel for my show. Check it out if you have some free time because I could use the extra views.
https://www.facebook.com/TheRealAwkwardGamer
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLq__5Ay-32t0YjJkElhzVg

My first one was Van Halen, which is also my all-time favorite band. The whole night was awesome but I kept waiting for Jump and they never played it. They went off stage and I was kinda disappointed but then they came back out (I was young and it was my first show - I knew nothing of an encore) and absolutely killed it with that song.

Best night ever!

I've been to somewhere around 120 concerts at this point and I still remember how awesome that moment was when I thought they were some and then hears that opening keyboard.

Anything even remotely video game related, I will gladly take. And it will be loved and cherished alongside all its friends and family in my game room.

@BRRABill said:

@coliver said:

@Awkward-Gamer said:

I live out in the country so I would recommend doing what a lot of people out here do - but trail cameras. It's just a fancy name for motion-activated cameras. They have a range of X and if anything moves in that range, they start recording and store all the footage in an SD card. You can get fairly decent ones for pretty reasonable prices at any sporting goods store or right on Amazon.

They are really tiny too with good picture quality. You can hang them just about anywhere. A family member has 10-12 of them on his property.

That is what I am looking for, but wired into a storage system in the house.

You may be able to find some of those as well. To stay on the low-cost side of it, search for trail cameras, not surveillance cameras. People in marketing know they can charge more for home security than they can for deer tracking so they price accordingly, even if both products are the same except for the label.

@MattSpeller said:

@Awkward-Gamer life is too short to hate my friend, make a positive change in yours.

I'm trying. It would just most likely require a big move to find something comparable in pay but better in environment. Probably out-of-state.

@scottalanmiller No, every day is like this. Today I'm just talking about it.

I also did something stupid today. I came to work.

I live out in the country so I would recommend doing what a lot of people out here do - but trail cameras. It's just a fancy name for motion-activated cameras. They have a range of X and if anything moves in that range, they start recording and store all the footage in an SD card. You can get fairly decent ones for pretty reasonable prices at any sporting goods store or right on Amazon.

@scottalanmiller Oh, I am sure a lot of people feel that way. But until I do find a new job, or the winning lotto ticket so I can focus on finally opening my game store, I have to deal with it and not say anything negative about them. Or at least not with any proper nouns.

@Minion-Queen Yeah, hectic would be a very under-stated way of describing my life lately. Trying to start a videography business, working on a game review website, managing several youtube channels, I moved a few months back, and I still have my full-time job that I hate... Apparently I decided some time early this year that I was allergic to free time.

Woohoo! A convention near me for once! I will be there!