Productivity In Waves, Prepare When You Can

For the past week, I have been basically home alone, which has been great for getting work done but not so much with other things. I look after my nan, she has dementia, she is currently not interested in eating, and I don't want to get morbid, but I think the end is nigh. I have been so behind on work recently, too, so putting in the 5-6 extra hours a day has been great. I have managed to crack on with making videos. At the time of writing this, I think I have made at least 30 new videos for YouTube (I'm stocking up for winter). My dad won't want me on my pc in the winter because he is trying to save as much money on electricity as possible. I will still be on my pc from 8pm to 2am, but not from almost the moment I wake up to the moment I am heading to bed. Moving has its bonuses and its drawbacks. So I haven't worked out how many videos I need to cover me for the winter period. I hope it will be enough by the time it arrives. Yes, I know it's the summer now. Yeah, I know there's a lot of time, but it does creep up on you, and you have to be prepared for whatever life throws at you. I try my best to stay on top of my work, and then the things I take on to help other people out, because I'm like that. If I can help on a non-emotional topic, then I will try my best, sometimes by putting in hours of research. Not everyone I have spent hours upon hours helping has been as kind to me, but we move on, such is life and all that. I hope by the end of summer to have another season of a video series ready and scheduled. I would like to have at least tried 10 new games to sprinkle in, and it's not needed, but preferable to have at least 20 new video ideas that are fully formed. Going back to my whole nan situation, we did have some nutrient supplement drinks show up on the doorstep two or three days ago (as of when I am writing this).

So far, they have been a godsend, and I do not believe in the good book; I have my own thoughts and opinions about all that. The drinks come in four flavours, strawberry (they didn't have any in stock this time round), chocolate, banana and vanilla. Because I have been in charge I have been choosing what flavour each day Banana was day one and she said it was nice I was rather shocked that she spoke to me because it was a very non verbal day for her, Day 2 was vanilla she also said it was nice but drank far less and didn't keep telling me it was nice like she did on day one so I think the winning flavour so far is banana. Personally, I hate the banana one, it smells foul, too artificial for my liking, and the smell is strong, so it's not the most fun time, but hey, at least she is drinking it. We are looking into booking a funeral so we are prepared for the worst, but I might be fearing the worst when in reality, she could potentially outlive me. Better to be prepared for a storm than turn a blind eye, right?

Day 3 I tried my nan on the chocolate drink, I will just call it a milk shake because it has that sort of consistency she didn't say it was nice right way I think it was day 5 that she said it was nice, but since then she has not said a word to anyone, not me, not my dad or any of the carers. I think we are on about day 7 or 8 of these new drinks and they seem to be good for her but she doesn't put the cup on the table she puts it on her bedcover then moves later on and it goes all over the plastic covering the carpet specifically for this reason we have the plastic sheet on the floor, in fact it takes 3 sheets of this large plastic on the floor to protect the carpet from getting ruined. She has in the past poured a whole cup of tea on the floor on purpose and couldn't tell me why.

Edit: My nan died in her sleep on Monday the 23rd of June 2025

Happy Switch 2 Launch Day!

PlayStation 4 (released 2013) -> 1 million units in 24 hours

Sega Dreamcast (released 1998) -> 225k in 24 hours

PlayStation 2 (released 2000) -> 500k in a weekend

PlayStation 3 (released 2006) -> 197k in 2 weeks

Xbox 360 (released 2005) -> 326k in 2 weeks

Wii (released 2006) -> 600k in 8 days

Game releases are always big days for the gaming community. When people can, they enjoy staying up all night long and waiting in line overnight to become the first to get their hands on the flashy new toy. The launch of the Switch 2 has been no different. 

Gamers flocked to stores over 12 hours before the launch of the system and had overnight parties in stores waiting for the chime of the bell signaling the official release of the latest addition to the history of gaming consoles.

Not everyone may believe that this latest release is an actual improvement, but sometimes we set our expectations too high and fail to realize where we started and just how far we have come.

I unfortunately have not gotten my hands on this latest system just yet, but I hope to someday.

Have you gotten one for yourself?

Diet soda is a lie. I am outraged!

I was having a chat with Rambo on one of her streams, and somehow we got to discussing soda. I said I was drinking diet cola, but the conversation progressed to the point that diet soda lies to you. It isn't healthier than regular soda. I went away and did some research, and sure enough, almost every drink brand that markets its diet soda has way more sugar than a regular drink. The specific diet soda I was drinking (and will stop eventually), has 90 grams of sugar. The regular version has 27 grams. I even looked at some bottles of Lemonade my dad has one is full fat and one is diet. Diet soda contains supposedly artificial sweetener and full fat contains normal sugar. If you do enough digging you can find so many articles on how artificial sweetener is actually worse for you than regular sugar. One artificial sweetener is aspartame this has been linked to causing cancer and can be found in many diet sodas. It was discovered in 1965 and is around 180-200 times sweeter than sugar from sugar cain. This specific sweetener was only approved to be used in dry food in 1981. Thats a whole 16 years that it took for the sweetener to be approved for use in dry food by the FDA. Aspartame is marketed to have zero calories but yet it can cause you to gain weight, you can obtain a mood disorder by consuming this sweetener. While there are many articles online telling you it has not been conclusively linked to serious side effects and health issues, these articles still tell you to be careful ingesting this specific substance. Its like they want to lie to you and just give you a glimmer of the truth. Be careful what you put into your body because anything could cause you a problem. If you have any health issues that have arisen since drinking these diet sodas please consider switching. When doing your weekly shop watch out for purchasing anything with the words; diet, low calorie, no calories, low or no sugar. Yes shopping just got a lot harder but maybe something health wise will improve. 

There is not much research on the topic of benefits of diet soda. It does say it reduces fatty liver and detrimental effects of normal coke. However it doesn't list these supposed 'detrimental' effects of regular cola if they wanted us to know the truth you would not have to do so much research on a specific subject to come up with a small pile of answers. You are left with way more questions than you are answers. Does this feel like a cover up to you? 

Thank you for reading my most technical post I have done so far who know I may be more outraged in the future be safe out there peeps <3