It's been a While...
And this is the second time I'm uploading this journal because I must have deleted the old one... I don't know how I did that. :/
A bunch of things have happened since I've last posted.
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Well, I moved out of my parents place in late September 2017 and moved into a group house in town. Being on my own (with the support from the group house) has help me progress as a person, and has put me on the road to become independent. It's also helped a great deal with my depression. A lot has happened here at the house, good and bad, although 95% of the bad is resolved. I've lost weight too!. I think I'm around 260-270 lbs. that's about 30-40lbs lost from June 2017. I'm going to the YMCA on Wednesdays and Fridays to swim (in the snowy months.) Well I try to go on those days, sometimes the house staff can't get free time so we don't go that day. I'm wanting go on Monday's too.
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In November 2017 I got my amateur radio license from the FCC, and then got over my mic fright and talked to someone in late December 2017. Since then I've had several QSOs (Contacts/Conversations) and made a lot of friends, young and old through the club I go to in town. It's nice to share the interest in electronics and for people to understand what I'm talking about and get useful feedback.
The owner of the group house system (there's three houses, and he also owns another group house program and a farm.) is very accepting to setting up antennas up in the backyard, I also have a workshop in the basement!
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Sometime in summer 2018 both my 2TB, and my older 1TB external hard drive died. So then I lost all my Sketchup work, audio samples for FL-Studio, Trainz content (a lot of which no longer exist on the net,) electronics schematics including an updated version of the pixel schematics legend I never uploaded, and a few hundred GB of videos downloaded over the years, although that last one doesn't bother me to much. Luckily for some projects I saved pictures of some of my prized Sketchup models, (which I plan to share) and for some models I have begun to make a new. Since they're all scratch made in Sketchup it makes it easier to remake, but is time consuming, but I have a lot of that for now. The audio samples can sort of be fixed too, I can just rerecord them or find them again online. Although some of my favorite samples I can't record because it was of an electronic organ I had that I tore down. I'm still hoping I'll come across the cassette I recorded the samples from and further hope that I didn't record over them, but I think I might have.
I now try to regularly save my Sketchup files on Google Drive. The 2TB Western Digital drive may have some hope for data recovery. Using my new Seagate 4TB drive's USB Micro-C cable the computer can detect the old WD drive, although when trying to access it it just keeps trying to read it and goes nowhere. I think it was the USB port on my desktop is what killed the drive, as I also lost a USB to Serial adapter on the same port. The 1TB Seagate drive is a weird case; I can read it, but not write to it, so the data (mostly videos, more were also on the other drive) I had on that drive were recovered. Disappointing I can't reuse it, I wanted to use it for a DVR Drive for my over the air ATSC tuner box.
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I'll try to upload more and have some semblance of actual content. My psychiatrist nudged me to try to share my 3d modeling work online. So I'll try to do that. I've attempted to try modeling humans to an extent (at least female characters, eventually I'll try male characters too,) and I think I did a good job at modeling something decent. I also have some 2d work; drawings, some Emofuri, & Kisekae2 stuff too.
I'll also be uploading more screenshots from Trainz: A New Era. I'm on the 5th restart of a route I'm building for a railroad story (a video series hopefully) I've had little to no success at getting Ideas or motivation for the story and trying to build the route, I've realized I need to limit the amount of space I'm working on or I can't focus properly. The story also has a space theme to it kinda like Star Trek but a different path/approach.
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I'm probably also upload some of my SFW-ish/vanilla NSFW fetish content as well, for that I'll have a preview badge over the image on them, or I may just have a cropped picture link to the full picture on sta.sh
It seems to be a common thing that people on the autism spectrum have fetishes. I'm no exception to that. I've been needing an outlet for the sort of things I'm into and I think it'd be OK to post it here...
If people are OK with it I may forgo the badge on the cleaner stuff...
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I've uploaded some of my "REDUX" music cover work onto Soundcloud, although I'm running low on upload time. I have 54 hours of content all the way back from 2011. The bulk of which is different mixing sessions of a particular song (the redux number,) and many have tweaked versions of the same session or small instrument changes (the lower case letter after the number.) I still use the limited version of FL-Studio 11 which means I can save a project but can't open it, but I can render it! If that last part weren't the case I'd given up making any music back in 2011. I tried using FL 20 but it just felt awkward trying to use it and trying to use some of the plugins cause the program to crash.
It's here if you want to listen, but be warned my music can have a weird sound to it (not all of them but a lot of them) so it isn't for everyone.
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There's probably some smaller things of interest, but they're not coming to mind while writing this.
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Anyway all,
73 de David SS][ :3