04/03/2025
Well, it has been a while...
I do apologize for that, though I have very good reasons for my absence.
where do I start... Well. After I had finished with the intro to what was going to be my next series, and still might be, and the holidays wound down, my carpal tunnel had gotten real bad when I returned to my CompTIA A+ studies (main reason it's taking me so long) as there is like 2 pages of notes per 5min of video, and I'm not even exaggerating lol
When I write, roll a filter for a dube, or anything that I have my hands "cramped up", for the past year or so, a lump forms kind of between my first and second fingers just past the knuckle (towards the wrist from the fingers) and it Aches something fierce; I would put it at a solid 8 on my pain-o-meter (I was a dumb kid, lot of pain lol).
I've been dealing with that daily trying to keep on track with school...
Also, I got lucky enough to land a 1-time Office expansion IT job where I planned the layout, and added/configured Active Directory to accomodate the different additions to their departments, and I also made suggestions on hardware, and setup to segregate their network from the internet (as security is tight with the type of business it is). And as payment, I was given my choice of hardware to build myself a new PC worthy of todays standards, as well as 2x Raspberry Pi setups, and an 8TB drive (a Pi4 and a Pi5, to build a NAS and media server [doing more than that with them ;) ] ) as I needed a secondary backup solution (trying to keep with the 3-2-1 rule).
They were impressed, I got my payment, and all was well.
Until...
when I moved my personal stuff from my old tower (made that one strictly for game servers like our ARK cluster), one of my drives, the one I kept my backup at the time (before I could set up the NAS...) failed... and then frazzled by that, I forgot to save my SP ARK savefile that I was using for The New Island playthrough when I set my new PC up... So, THAT ARK playthrough is no more, but I WILL make another in the future.
My health hasn't been the best lately either tbh. I'm rising late, to bed late. Barely sleeping. Arms constantly feeling numb along the outter edge/pinky (CTS of course), I had pulled a muscle in my shoulder and that put me out of commision for a while too. Depression, and anxiety has also been bad lately... I have a doc. apt. the end of this month, but they only take a couple issues at a time, so this might take a bit till I'm feeling back to my chipper self lol.
With all this, and the obligations I feel I should do, as I've given my word, It's been making me feel quite overwhelmed (I am also trying to start up an IT business), and this has made me a bit snappy, and assumptuous and has kinda put strain on my relationship also. So, moving forward, I am putting youtube on hold for now, going to focus on Studies, and the Love of My Life! and of course, my health.
Thank you so much for being here, I appreciate you All. Stick around as I am not fully done, just healing. I will be back :)
and Please, above all else, Stay Safe and Live for No Regrets!
(if youre going to regret doing it, don't. If youre going to regret not doing it, do it!)
PEACE FOR NOW!
~Hugh Hustla~
