Since November 14 of 2022, I’ve been putting out a publication known collectively as “the paper.” Each morning I get up very early and put together the news from the previous day in a single post which hopefully has informed and entertained my readers.
I also update both featured videos and live streams listings throughout the day on various discord servers. This is probably more work than just writing the paper, as I’ve literally set up my own discord server just to track nearly 300 YouTube creators as they post videos each day and then curate the best to be featured in the listings.
Honestly, I don’t know if anyone is using those listings, but the listings end up as part of the paper each day in the form of the Live Events and Featured Video collections, which again, not sure if anyone actually uses but by collecting what I’ve previously collecting into a mobile friendly collection of videos takes even more time and well… yeah.
I’m also part of a popular YouTube live stream called the Welsh News Network, which goes live for 4-6 hours a show, five nights a week. It’s an incredible experience and frankly, it’s helped me grow quite a bit and taken me out of my shell and back into the world.
Alas, reality has come creeping in.
As some of you know, I’ve spent a good portion of my life taking care of my father, who is physically and mentally disabled. I’ve worked from home for 27 years now in order to be on hand to help with his needs and let my mom work outside jobs so the stress of dealing with his issues and his overwhelming personality doesn’t drive her insane.
Recently, he’s been hospitalized and right now he’s in a rehab facility in a local nursing home to recover from a stroke-like incident that happened last week. It’s not life threatening, but he’s outside of the house and now I need to adjust to the new schedule and find a balance to whatever the heck I’m doing here, his needs, my professional needs and get time to myself to, you know, SLEEP once in a while.
So yeah. There’s going to be some changes.
As of today, what is known collectively as “the paper” is no more.
Deep breath, it’s just a format change.
Instead of waiting all day to put out a single collected issue, I’ll be writing news stories as they happen, and I’ll be releasing them here as individual articles. Those articles will be collected into a single post for each of the Discord servers we’re featured on the next morning and then a smaller version of that post will be distributed on the servers that we don’t have a dedicated presence on.
The daily listings of YouTube Live Events and Featured Videos will be web exclusive though links to both will be provided where we previously did listings. Basic articles will be released here each morning for both, and they’ll be updated as I see new events/videos throughout the day. With the new schedule, I just don’t have time to do both listings for Discord and listings for the web right now. It may change in the future, but really, I can’t do both right now.
The good news is that we’re maintaining mobile friendly one-stop shopping for both the featured videos and the live events sections. You should still be able to watch the videos from any device without having to load a separate application. It should also increase traffic quite a bit to ReallyCoolSite.org, but that’s not the intention of this move.
I need to do what’s best for me right now. I love doing the paper, I love interacting with you all and hopefully doing my best to keep you all updated. These moves will hopefully ensure that I can find the balance and keep things going at or normal levels as I find balance and again, hopefully get some sleep once in a while.
Thank you for your understanding, and yes, comments are open below if you’d like to give feedback to these changes.
Best,
Jim
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I know how hard it is to take care of a ill loved one. And worry about your mom on top of that. But please make sure you get breaks now and then. Your important to your parents (and to us) So be good to yourself. I hope all of WNN gives to you as much as you give to all of us.