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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
SFW [QM] Content badge by stormsirens2 NSFW Content badge by stormsirens2
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
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    It's been awhile...

    Life's gotten better for me, here are a few things I've accomplished since the last time I've journaled:

    In late September 2017 I moved out of parents home and moved into a group house. Being on my own (with assistance from the group house) has helped me progress as a person and be less depressed. I've also lost weight since I moved in. I'm around 260-270lbs (about 35-45lbs lost.) I try to regularly go to the YMCA to swim (in the snowy months.) I usually try for Wednesday's and Fridays. I've been wanting to add Monday too. So hopefully I'll be getting in good physical shape!

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    I got my amateur radio license in November 2017 (I might reveal my call-sign when I'm out of the group house and live on my own.) Finally spoke to someone late December that year. I've made several friends and QSOs (contacts/conversations) through amateur radio and it's helped me become more sociable and talkative. It's nice to be able to share my interest with electronics with people and for them to be able to understand them! I'm planning to go to the National Weather Service office in La Crosse Wisconsin for SKYWARN appreciation day this Saturday.

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    Sometime in summer 2018 my large 2TB external hard drive died and my older 1TB did as well, and I lost all my Sketchup files, FL-Studio sound samples, accumulated Trainz content (a lot that no longer exist on the net,) electronics schematics (including a newer version of the pixel schematics legend that never got uploaded,) and several hundred GB of videos downloaded over the years (although that one doesn't bother me much.)
    Luckily I had taken a few screenshots of some of my Sketchup work that I saved on my laptop which thankfully I was too lazy to move it to the now dead drive. I'll probably upload those images soon. The audio samples is a little easier to fix as I can just rerecord some of the instruments I've used. Although some of my favorite samples I can't record because I tore down the electronic organ that they were from, I'm still hoping if I'll come across the cassette I recorded the samples on and hoping I didn't record over them... Though I probably did. :/
    There is some hope that the drive still maybe working that maybe I can get the data off of it, the USB Micro-C cable on my new 4TB drive seems to get differing results as the PC "sees" the old drive when using that cable but when I try to open it it never loads anything. I believe the USB port on the computer that it was plugged into is bad because I lost a USB to Serial converter on that port too...

I now try to regularly backup my Sketchup files to Google Drive, and on other computers

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     I might also be getting a proper job soon too!
    There's a lot more little things I could mention, but nothing important is coming to me right now...

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    I'm going to try to upload a little more often with some semblance of actual content, My psychiatrist nudged me to put things out on the web so I'll try. I've played a lot with Sketchup and the Twilight rendering engine plugin. I even tried my hand at scratch drawing "human" characters and I impressed myself on what I could accomplish. Unfortunately I still haven't tried learning Blender yet, so the stuff I make won't become useful to other things like animation or games without help from others who know how to do it...

    Regarding content, I also have some vanilla-ish NSFW/Fetish content as well I'd like to share but I'm hesitant to upload it, I know it's called DeviantArt but hopefully you guys would be OK if I uploaded it... I'll try to incorporate a SFW preview image for those submissions (I haven't tried that before but that should be possible, can you tell I don't upload a lot?)

    I'll try to share images of the work I've done in Trainz: A New Era. I'm on my 5th restart of a route that is part of the set to a story (a video series hopefully) I'm trying to write; unfortunately I'm having little luck of getting ideas and motivation. The story universe also has a extra-terrestrial theme to it, kinda like Star Trek but a different path/approach.

    I've uploaded some of my "REDUX" Cover music work onto SoundCloud although I'm running low on upload time. I have about 54 hours (the bulk of which is tweaked copies of the same session, and alternate sessions of the same song, and not all reduxes are worthy of upload anyway...) It's here if you want to listen, be warned I have an odd sound to my work, it's not for everyone.


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Anyway all,

73 de David SS][ :3
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Things have been going okay. Sorry for not posting journals as often, I just always don't see the need. Anyway I have work tomorrow! After a a few months of setup at my county's vocational rehab center I have work. Starting tomorrow I'll be doing a 6 week program see how well I can do a job (in this case jobs,) although specifically it will determine how much I'm payed. After the evaluation I can choose what job I'd like to keep and know what hourly pay I get. Apparently even during the evaluation I'll still get payed $9.50 an hour (Minnesota's minimum wage). I set a 20 hour work week to start with for the eval.

So what jobs am I getting you may ask? Well on Monday's through Thursday's I'll be working at a local burger joint between 10 and 2. On Friday's I'll be working at a place were the refurbish old computers and sell them to low income families.

After 2 weeks I'll be taking a break to go see my aunt up north. Up there there's a train club, the man up there who happens to be the president of the club befriended me after knowing I have Asperger's syndrome. Also in that town there's a BNSF mainline, so hopefully with my new recorder I can get so good audio clips!

Back in mid summer last year I revived an old laptop (an HP Pavilion DV7) that had a hard-drive death. I found a working drive in an other dead laptop and had wiped it (had malware.) for a time I ran FreeDOS on it but then I got bored, the I remeberd the operating system Ubuntu (which is free) and installed that. Now the computer works great and I'm currently writing this on it. around my birthday I got Sony Movie Suite 13, so at some point (if I get off my butt) I may post some YTP's or other works.

Been also working on Sketchup making sets and models, I have some shot that I'll post at a later date. More Trainz screen-caps maybe had soon if I get back on the windows machine.

EDIT: Today when I was at work my social worker (think that's her title...) clarified some things and I put the wrong info here. after my eval I'll move to a next step I can't quite remember what the thing was, but it had to do with competing for jobs. after that I'll learn how to make a resume and how to meet for job applications, then they'll try to get a me legit job. So basically after eval I can't go back to what I'm doing and going to do. hope this all goes well. Cheers.

Oh also I think I decided my nickname will be "Mankato" since there was a joke that my apron had a sticker saying Mankato on it. (They get there aprons and cloths cleaned there.)
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Okay, Hi Its been I while since I've posted a journal here's some info about myself that has happened if you are curious.

My laptop died around a month and a half ago. I was hard-drive failure. So we got a "new" old one. It's a Dell Optiplex 755. I had is upgraded with a better video card, so it'l run trainz better. it did for a while (finding all my assets' dependencies will be a pain to find, even if I have the files) After a while it seemed good but this one time I had it downloading a video from youtube, and  I left it to go hang out with my sister and when I can to unplug the ethernet cable (i'm a slight technophobe now) it was making the BSOD Buzzing sound. So I tried to restart it and the diag lights tells me theres something wrong. anyway to make it short its been acting up brought it back to the place I gt it and tried to see if I could get it to crash for them. still waiting if they figured anything out.
Another thing that has happened is that my favorite radio station KNXR went off the air FOREVER at first when I saw an email I didn't really look at it until Ireleased  it was from the local news station it got me curious, and when i read the news it made my heart sink in avery low place. I thought it was peculiar for KNXR to do what they did night before but knowing that, it made since. I'm happy to know now that they'll be back on the net @ www.97five.com they hope to get music streaming in April.
In other news I may be getting a volunteer job in Osceola Wisconsin. as long as I pass the test of the 28th I'll be good, and then I'll work as a student brakeman at the Railroad museum there!! WOOOOOOOO. This also means I'll work at the Jackson street roundhouse. the commutes gonna be tough since I live in Rochester Mn and I don't have a driver's license yet.

I personal things I've gotten to get a spark t ge myself drawing again. I hope t post some picture of my character Mary-Anne and Daniel that I did back in september.

Anyways see ya ad I'll talk to ya!
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Man I can't seem to keep my da updated.
Well last tuesday (January 8, 2014) I was diagnosed with appendicitis.  the day before I had some bad cramps, well thats what I thought what they were. aft the surgery. I found out that my appendix had ruptured and fluid leaked out. originally they wanted to do a laparoscopic appendectomy, but apparently it was badly inflamed and also was near my spine, that would explain my back pain. anyway was in the hospital for a few days went home. (if the hospitals procedures or such seem lax, sorry but I'm not good with detail and have a faulty memory) And thought I was done but no I started, to get sick vomiting and such, and got concerned enough to go back wich thats were I am now.
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