So thank you very much for all the support over nearly a decade of doing these L G R things, it is always appreciated and sharing videos, commenting just watching, donating things, saying nice stuff in person and even sending some challenging things.

You know, I always want to improve, So that's important as well.

It's all part of the process, and I thank you very much for that.

Normally, I do something a little more involved than this for an anniversary video.

But this year I decided to do something a little bit different.

I'm gonna take a break.

A very short break.

No worries.

There did not disappear for months or anything.

I'm gonna be resuming videos on July 13th 2018.

I'll be back working on things before then.

But, you know, I wanted to just get my head space a little bit clear because, honestly, I need it.

I have been doing some pretty intense videos recently.

My brain is fried like it just felt like do after finishing that 30 minute gives Mondo like many documentary thing ended up being way more involved than I intended, but I didn't want to leave anything out.

And, you know, then there was like, a SIM video before that that I spent like 30 straight hours just finishing up because I wanted to get that out in a timely manner and all sorts of other things And some videos a budget videos, actually, that aren't going out.

One I'm working on right now that's gonna be pretty lengthy is grab the ultrasound sound card retrospective.

That's one that's been in the works for years.

And I finally got I think, all of the stuff together that I want to show in the video.

And I catch, you know, I need time.

I guess Thio recoup a bit for about a week.

So I'm gonna go and I don't know, do some things like that air fun or something.

I don't even know what to do.

Just work all the time, which is flying.

This is what actually keeps me energized, really is doing all of these videos and communicating back and forth of you posting cool things that I find fascinating and interesting and retrospectives and all the historical stuff.

But, you know, I can't even remember the last time that I played like a DOS team for fun.

I would like to do that again.

Then, you know, like I don't see a movie drive somewhere that's further than an hour away.

So I don't feel like I need to come back immediately and, you know, do some voiceover filming or something.

Anyway, Yeah, take lower week off or something like that, and we'll be back with cool things.

Hopefully, you just give you an idea of some of those.

I do have several projects in the works, probably about a dozen, one of which mean the aforementioned gravis ultrasound video.

That's gonna be pretty cool.

I've got three year, four cards to show there and a bunch of software and all sorts of things.

I've got a video coming up.

It's on where about the many disc data format and other related things from Sony computer storage that's a bit hot for your PC.

I have another storage type of video, just sort of algae are thing on a gigantic CD changer for DOS and Windows PCs.

That's brand new in the box, and I don't know I always found those kind of intriguing is the kids.

I think that'll be fun.

What we're gonna do everything of some kind on digital research is C.

P M 86 which was an alternative to PC and M S DOS Back in the day, it was kind of a mixed, holdover thing of CPM and what we'll talk about that I got in a boxing of sorts to do of ah, bunch of donations that arrived over the past couple months.

There's always a Drifts episode in the works, and it's just, you know, that depends on luck.

So who knows when that will happen on an M deck monitor?

That's a really neat like monochrome amber screen thing.

I was able to find one new old stock, so that'll be kind of fun.

I think.

Open up a monitor monitor and test it out with a bunch of games running and Hercules mode and whatnot.

Do have some game coverage as well.

I want to do a video on the after Dark's after Dark's After Dark Games collection, which that's over there somewhere.

We'll see what else you got.

Wizards and warlords is a thing.

It's a game that is, from the eighties, a very obscure role playing thing for PCs that, as far as I know, has never been shown or archived at all online.

Or at least I can't find much of any record about it.

But I did.

I talked to the developer just a little bit indirectly, and I got some information on that, so that's kind of fun.

I think you know, I don't really know what I'm doing.

There's all sorts of things, like just looking on the shelves there.

Holy crap.

There's that video on the Creative game Blaster having the work's still that's been going on for a while.

Another need for speed retrospective over their Motor City online.

Because I figured out that you could play some of it offline.

That seems interesting, and I have that ridiculous like duel of voodoo to card thing.

It's the Obsidian Freedy, something or other.

It's like two voodoo cards sandwich together.

It's a lot of things that are all half done, like I was just going through my folders on my PC the other day.

I'm like, Wow, look at all these projects that I did like 1/4 off and then, like there's always something right.

There's a bit of research that I can't find or like, a piece of software that doesn't work or, more often, a piece of hardware that doesn't work.

Or there's a conflict in my existing hardware and have to fix that hardware to get the other hardware to work like, Yeah, that's another thing.

My Windows 98 capture PC at the moment really needs some work.

The power supply went for one thing.

The disk drive stopped reading like half the disks, floppy drive and the CD drive.

I don't know what went on there.

I need to fix that motherboard.

I think it's just been walkie anyway, and I've always wanted to upgrade it a little bit, so that's probably gonna be a video as well.

So it's a Windows 98 repair rebuild video.

Whatever happens, I'm just waiting on more parts because there's some parts that I wanted that I don't have, and I thought I did so you know, little things like that.

They're always getting in the way, making these kind of videos because it's retro tech and software.

You never know what's going to go wrong.

and half the time most things go wrong.

So that's just that's just what the challenge is there.

But that's okay.

That's honestly why I enjoy this stuff so much because I find that not everyone has the time of the patients.

The resource is to make that stuff come together in a form that you know only like works but can be demonstrated and then hopefully communicated in a way that's interesting.

And I find that I have a particular set of skills and a way of putting that on video that seems to work.

So I want to continue to do that for as long as I can, but in order to do so, I guess I'm gonna have to take a break.

Another reason I want to take a break just to get my head back in the red spot is, uh it's stuff under were life crap happening that sort of piled up all at once.

And you know how that goes?

Probably.

But, you know, even when you're working for yourself like I am and you know it's just just one guy doing what I do here Yes, things pile up right, like, you know, I don't doctor's appointment as, like how great.

Now I've got to do some potential life changes there to get some health things in order.

And then a few days ago, somebody wrecked my car.

They rammed into the back of it.

It's not the worst damage in the world, but I still haven't heard back from that guy's insurance and all the ways that I need to wait to get that repair.

And so, like, dang it, I want to get my car fixed so I can go and take care of some things and and then they don't like my Windows 10 p c like adobe, all mites, adobe stuff.

Just stop freaking working something wrong with my scratch disk.

And I had to replace that like, Oh, I'll just I'll redo all Windows 10 because it needs to be cleaned out anyway.

And, you know, things things were happening.

So that's what I'm gonna do over my time off, other than you know, literally legitimately taking some time off.

I want to fix up some things and get everything in order so that I feel like I'm not going crazy in my head and come back and do Morrell gr So expect that in about a week.

And I have two weeks or whatever it is from now.

You have July 13th.

So it's like 10 days or some crap anyway.

Yeah, I guess.

I guess I'm gonna I'm gonna put it here because I'm just sort of 10 minutes.

Uh, yeah.

Anyway, I guess I'll just go and leave it there.

Thank you very much for watching this ramble of oven update that is not very well assembled.

But that's okay, I hope.

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Thanks for watching.

We'll see a pretty soon Yae vacation.