Random Rants 94 I rant at the thread title and shake my fist menacingly.

[Synobun]

Secondary rant, though related to the above: I started streaming on Twitch earlier this year and it was a principle of mine that it would never take away from other things in my life. It would fit into the spaces left over, if there were any, and nothing more. I quickly gained over a hundred followers and reached affiliate after only a week, and then proceeded to stop. Several reasons, really. Pressure, mostly. I had gotten attention from large figures in the community, and this also led to getting attention from ordinary people anywhere I went in that niche. As an isolating recluse, nightmare fuel.

But I might need to start again soon, and to treat it like a job. My editing business has evaporated this year, in an exceptionally odd kind of death. The first half of the year was marked with clients who all collectively decided paying was optional, robbing me of thousands of dollars' worth of work. And then the second half has been marked with simple silence, and scaling back in my two "day" jobs. No replies to any outreach or referrals either. It's been dire. The Twitch stuff... is not something I really want to rely on. But I have to admit that there's potential there for a relatively reliable income stream, based on early performance and the fact that months later I'm still being asked in every chatroom when I'm streaming again. Being a streamer with a capital S is not appealing. I don't have the temperament, and the energy costs of it are high enough that if I do focus on it, it'll prevent me from doing other things.

Yet "other things" aren't happening anyway, and I need to earn money. So... my hand might be forced.

 

[Kyriakos]

That sucks, @Synobun . At least you still have memories of the better time. Maybe it will be repeated in the future, with new people

 

[Ajidica]

Update: My dishwasher still is not replaced; is unlikely to get replaced in the next two weeks because of how holidays are falling, and I got a rent renewal letter. I'm fine with the rent amount, but there is some audacity in saying they hope to keep me as a tenant when my dishwasher isn't working!

 

[Kyriakos]

^Sour plates.

 

[Birdjaguar]

Update: My dishwasher still is not replaced; is unlikely to get replaced in the next two weeks because of how holidays are falling, and I got a rent renewal letter. I'm fine with the rent amount, but there is some audacity in saying they hope to keep me as a tenant when my dishwasher isn't working!

Maybe you will get one of those new dishwashers that take 2 or more hours for a cycle.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

We've got built-in dishwashers here. I've lived in this building over 10 years and never bothered with them. I use mine for extra storage, considering that my kitchen contains only ONE small drawer.


Rant:

I received a Christmas card from my aunt. She included the standard letter sent to everyone, and a handwritten note on the back. So essentially:

- Lots of news about people I don't know and have never met (likely never will)
- News about a family reunion in Red Deer this past summer that NOT ONE of them bothered to tell me about
- News that my aunt (uncle's wife, not the one who sent me the card) has lung cancer and is getting home care

It looks like I'm going to be having words with her about the reunion. She said she didn't tell me about it "because you haven't wanted to attend before."

Well, that could just be because before, they were held in places I couldn't get to, and where there was nowhere for me to stay even if I could get there, and where they chose a location where the ground outside wasn't level enough to be safe for someone who uses a wheeled mobility device. Not to mention that I wasn't about to leave the cats alone and unsupervised for 4 days. But I guess my mother forgot to mention those details when she was busy badmouthing me to everyone.

I'm not really feeling much Christmas spirit after all this.

 

[Chukchi Husky]

Last Tuesday at around 9 PM the house lost electricity except for the upstairs lights. An electrician came at 3 PM the next day and discovered that the problem was caused by a faulty wire in a plug socket in my mum's bedroom. The house now has electricity again but because of the sockets being on a loop, my room no longer has electricity so I have to use a long extension cable. This caused another problem as I use powerline adaptors to connect my computer to the internet. My computer does have built in wireless adaptor but then I had a blue screen crash caused by a faulty driver and after a restart the wireless adaptor stopped working so it seems like that was the cause of the crash. I had to order a new wireless adaptor and that arrived a couple of hours ago.

 

[Ajidica]

Maybe you will get one of those new dishwashers that take 2 or more hours for a cycle.

Turns out I got my new dishwasher on Wednesday! It is super quiet but the dry cycle has all the drying capacity of a baby gently blowing on the plates.
(Or to paraphrase the Eddie Izzard Death Star Cantina segment "All the plates are still wet. What did you do, dry them in a rainforest?")

 

[Birdjaguar]

In NM we just open the dishwasher door and they air dry in 10 -15 minutes (very low humidity).

 

[dusters]

Secondary rant, though related to the above: I started streaming on Twitch earlier this year and it was a principle of mine that it would never take away from other things in my life. It would fit into the spaces left over, if there were any, and nothing more. I quickly gained over a hundred followers and reached affiliate after only a week, and then proceeded to stop. Several reasons, really. Pressure, mostly. I had gotten attention from large figures in the community, and this also led to getting attention from ordinary people anywhere I went in that niche. As an isolating recluse, nightmare fuel.

But I might need to start again soon, and to treat it like a job. My editing business has evaporated this year, in an exceptionally odd kind of death. The first half of the year was marked with clients who all collectively decided paying was optional, robbing me of thousands of dollars' worth of work. And then the second half has been marked with simple silence, and scaling back in my two "day" jobs. No replies to any outreach or referrals either. It's been dire. The Twitch stuff... is not something I really want to rely on. But I have to admit that there's potential there for a relatively reliable income stream, based on early performance and the fact that months later I'm still being asked in every chatroom when I'm streaming again. Being a streamer with a capital S is not appealing. I don't have the temperament, and the energy costs of it are high enough that if I do focus on it, it'll prevent me from doing other things.

Yet "other things" aren't happening anyway, and I need to earn money. So... my hand might be forced.

Do you have contracts when you offer your editing services? Do you mean editing as in checking grammar/style of texts to be published as books?

 

[Synobun]

Do you have contracts when you offer your editing services? Do you mean editing as in checking grammar/style of texts to be published as books?

Copyediting, yes.

The values are so low and I never live in the same jurisdiction as the client, so contracts are mostly feel-good things without any real weight to them.

 

[dusters]

Copyediting, yes.

The values are so low and I never live in the same jurisdiction as the client, so contracts are mostly feel-good things without any real weight to them.

I am a linguist mostly translating texts, but also teaching languages. For the reason you mentioned. I haven't tried editing ever. It sounds tedious and pay is low.

However, I would definitely check out your stream. You didn't mention what game/activity do you stream?

 

[Gori the Grey]

An LED clock I use in one particular room gains about 8 minutes a year. Twice a year I get fed up and set it back four minutes.

How hard is it for a device whose sole purpose is to tell time TO TELL TIME?

 

[Synobun]

However, I would definitely check out your stream. You didn't mention what game/activity do you stream?

Ah, it's because it's not yet completely socially acceptable, and the crowd here would mercilessly make fun of it.

 

[Cutlass]

Office Xmas party sucked.

 

[Arakhor]

Ah, it's because it's not yet completely socially acceptable, and the crowd here would mercilessly make fun of it.

Given the vast reams of personal information we've each shared about ourselves over the years, I doubt that knowing your Twitch account name would make much difference over all.

 

[Kyriakos]

Ah, it's because it's not yet completely socially acceptable, and the crowd here would mercilessly make fun of it.

Maybe you will get lucky and Mr. Beast will donate 10.000 dollars to you. He randomly does (did?) that to people who had few subscribers.
Seriously, though, good luck with this! If I wasn't lazy, I would try too, though I am more of the youtube-type (and still too lazy to do stuff there for my obscure channel).

 

[Synobun]

Maybe you will get lucky and Mr. Beast will donate 10.000 dollars to you. He randomly does (did?) that to people who had few subscribers.
Seriously, though, good luck with this! If I wasn't lazy, I would try too, though I am more of the youtube-type (and still too lazy to do stuff there for my obscure channel).

What would you stream? It's possible it's an untapped niche.

Given the vast reams of personal information we've each shared about ourselves over the years, I doubt that knowing your Twitch account name would make much difference over all.

I know it wasn't meant that way, but this is an unintentional sick burn.

 

[Hygro]

Office Xmas party sucked.

How bad did it suck to make it rant worthy. Tell all !

 

[Kyriakos]

What would you stream? It's possible it's an untapped niche.

I am not sure. I have high-brow and very low-brow ideas. But first I need to feel motivated ^^
Possibly I will try when I move to my new apartment - so half a year from now.