Yes my posting schedule has gotten a bit off of late.
My house still resembles a surrealist work inside as random dishes, books, off season clothes, and personal items of my spouse migrate to boxes stacked in my living room. Move out date is yet to be set but there is a date at which they have to be in the new location by or the company won't pay for the move. Let's just say before Summer 2022 the house will be a lot less full of boxes.
Next up how is the funding going for the shop?
Go Fund Me assigned a representative to my case and all issues have been resolved! The page is official and I have already recieved a $25 donation! That brings total cash in hand to $350 or 0.0175% of goal...yep I've got a ways to go. (link at bottom of page)
The borrowed tractor is a go but as noted in the last update I have to pay to have it transported from two hours away. Won't cost anymore though than paying for a local rental to be delivered so I save a $1225 in equipment rental fees. The savings will offset the cost of everything I need to put in a wood-stove to code. Seeing as I currently have four cords--and growing--of stacked up firewood this is a viable heat source.
Patreon I am working on, lots to learn.
Tooling
As mentioned previously, I have a lead on some higher end woodworking equipment. Sadly the lead has gone rather quiet, but the person has a very busy job this time of year so it is still out there.
Miscellaneous
Arthrites
With the holidays I am holding the job search until right after January 1st as no one will be responding anyways.
The arthritis is acting up lately and is making the search for a "real" job kind of scary. As I have noted before I'm not bad enough to be classed as disabled but in the HVAC world special accommodations are a bit tricky to get an employer to acknowledge.
As you can see in the pictures my fingers when straight aren't very, not all the knuckles will unbend all the way anymore, and when making a fist some fingers no longer fold in right. This is with medicine! Now add one shoulder is worse than the other, one wonky hip, and one messed up knee, and this begins to add up. Depending on the weather depends on what my hands will hold and for how long, if I limp, if I can get something off the top shelf at the store, or the ever popular will Maura get off the floor...seeing where those special accommodations come in yet? Air conditioners are typically set on the ground or on a roof and to work on them requires kneeling or sitting on the ground--did I mention that the hip is quite literally a pain in the ass for sitting on the ground/floor? Furnaces aren't much different as they are not installed for repair convenience but to take up the least amount of space possible.
These are the reasons I am wanting to get the shop up and YouTube profitable. So I don't have to put myself and my aging shell through the pain and misery of constantly pushing myself to exceed what my body is telling me are its hard limits.
New profile pic!
Yep this is me, and it is a selfie. i have also been informed it is "80s AF" *laughter* I really didn't realize until after I shot it but it looks good so I'll deep it for a while :-)
YouTube
At the time of writing this I have one video that has 1,689 views, 19 likes, and two comments. I think it is safe to say it has been aggregated into the algorithm. If you would like to see it too click here. I have my guesses as to why it went through the roof but no solid facts.
The next highest video is at 43 views and that was my peach cake.
Now here's the analytical breakdown: the average view time is only 1 minute 27 seconds, 25% of people make it to about the 4 minute mark, and only 5% actually watch the entire video. So roughly 84 people have watched the whole thing. honestly I'm not sure if that is normal or not, but it appears that 75% of viewers drop off at the one minute mark. Thinking needs done on this for sure. It has had 12 returning viewers--probably my mom.
Over all it appears the channel has had 1,709 unique views but we are stuck at 19 subscribers ( I need 1,000 subscribers for revenue sharing)
We are at 50.7 total view hours out of the 4,000 view hours that I need for revenue sharing so 1.3%!
Copper roses
Despite the arthritis the roses are moving along and I should begin soldering petals into place today. They will be offered as a gift for donations exceeding $160 (this covers shipping too) or more toward my shop roof when they are done--more details on how to acquire them once I have the batch finished. I am considering including a certificate of original purchase with them, not sure if that will help long term or not but if I get known for my jewelry it might. Serial number 01-21 is already owned and delivered, number 02-21 goes to my grand-daughter,and 03-21 may be spoken for. Total run is a baker's dozen so 04-21 through 13-21 will be up for grabs.
We had our first casualty yesterday in the petal cutting process as the next to last of 52 different petals had an oops.
Fortunately I have enough plate left to replace our fallen comrade and still make the leaves for the stem.
Beyond this batch of roses I have had a request for a bracelet in the same general concept, I have been kicking this around in my head for a couple of weeks now and may have an idea in mind--stay tuned for updates.
My soon to be ex has said I may want to focus more on my jewelry production and in ways I am inclined to agree as I find it fun to do, but I find creating in the shop fun in general.
Next article?
I am working on a deep dive into the forbidden end of the diving pool for my next article at Ordinary-Times, but it may not see the light of day until sometime in January. The article is currently being researched and the current point is reading 321 PDF pages of U.N. bureaucratese and getting my fingers to type.
Book??
Yes I have a book nearly complete and one that is in the editing process! I just have to find time to get into the last little bit and we may see two books out in 2022! Sadly books do not generate a lot of income so I've kind of let it sit on the back burner a bit too long.
Close out on this
Well I started this at 07:39 and it is now 09:33
I'm off to work on roses for now.
-Maura
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