In the last three days, in addition to my regular day job, I’ve recorded 10 videos for my YouTube channel. Some of them I’m very happy with. There’s a certain feeling you get when you’ve done things you had to do. But there’s a better feeling you get when you do things because you want to do them.

For a while now, I’ve not really felt up to making videos for my channel. I’m sure some of my long time audience members could feel that as the content got less and less. I was just a little burnt out and had a bit of impostor syndrome to go along with everything else going on in my life. But these last few days, that’s changed. And I’ve finally felt like making some content again.

Part of that is this blog. This place gives me another avenue of creativity that is entirely unlike the YT channel. I’m freer here to be myself, and I’m not as locked into a certain niche as I am on the channel. Being creative here has gotten me to feel creative over there, if that makes any sense at all.

I know that I write about how awesome blogging is all the time, but I really can’t stress enough how good it feels when I can actually use blogging to make my life better or to get myself back on track. It feels damn good.

Another part of all thid is that I changed Linux distros. I admit to being a bit bored with Linux these last few months. I loved openSUSE, and I’ll probably use it again when I’m finally ready to settle down. But NixOS has helped me find my interest in trying new things again, something I had thought lost. I’ve tried new apps, new ways of doing things, and that has led to an explosion of video ideas. So as much crap as I will no doubt give NixOS over the next two years, for this it deserves my gratitude.