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Wife her before you Mom her, ya heathens.

WRITING

I’m a contributor at UpstreamReviews, I post weekly updates at CrackerStack, and I pick at a novel in between illustrations.

Won’t lie, it was pretty much a dead week for production at the computer desk. We had a medical thing in the family that threw my schedule off, so when I wasn’t dealing with that, I was exercising or trying to catch up on sleep. I lost two productive nights for writing and drawing–my longest two nights. So this week was slow on that front.

READING

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I finished two books and scrapped two books. New comics came in and that was fun. Next week I will finish TOWER OF SILENCE and get the review video up.

DRAWING

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Made progress but didn’t finish anything. I’ll wait to poast here.

VIDEO

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Since I do videos in the car, this was pretty easy to knock out. Normal week on the channel.

FITNESS

The aforementioned sleep dep/schedule derailment prevented me from losing more weight, but in better news, I also didn’t gain any back. I’m holding strong at 210 and that feels really good. Three weeks left on the shred, if I hit it hard I bet I can get down to 200. I’m also squatting, benching, and deadlifting 3/4s of my body weight. For a three-week ease in, I’m satisfied.

I’m starting to lose weight again, and it feels pretty good man. I’m a far cry from this, but I’m determined to get there…

Bib 932, my second mud run ever.

WRITING

I’m a contributor at UpstreamReviews, I post weekly updates at CrackerStack, and I pick at a novel in between illustrations.

I wrote two big pieces for Upstream, one of which was a rewrite of an old post that coded funky when the site switched platforms.

I think I’m gonna angle for Wednesday nights to be my new writing night if I can swing it.

READING

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Slow week for reading, but I’ve got plans for picking it up. Check out the most recent post on the Stack.

DRAWING

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Finished this piece, started another. Very satisfied with it.

VIDEO

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Last week was productive, but the videos were a little more miss than hit. Still, the most exciting news came when we learned we’re getting six FORGOTTEN WARRIOR books from Larry Correia.

FITNESS

Well, one week in, the shred course is working. Boy howdy. I’ll spare you the numbers here but I am dropping. There was a hard adjustment of a few days there, it’s an ongoing process and that’s why I paid for coaching. Gotta keep fine-tuning it all.

But I will weigh under 190 by my birthday in 3 months.

Get back to work.

It’s the NFL Draft this week, which is relevant because tomorrow’s “Movie Monday” video is connected to that. Here’s to better days, when the Colts actually won on a regular basis.

WRITING

I’m a contributor at UpstreamReviews, I post weekly updates at CrackerStack, and I pick at a novel in between illustrations.

I finished posting THE KORBADELL JOB on the Stack. Didn’t make much time for other writing, most of my evening creative time was for drawing.

READING

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Latest update is on the Stack. I’m reading more of SHOGUN and knocking out at least one more book.

DRAWING

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Didn’t completely finish a digital piece, but I made great progress with which I am satisfied. The labor of another night should put it over the top.

VIDEO

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Modest week on the channel, with one random video that apparently made some nerds mad, but whateeeeeevvvvvvvvvvvvvs. Subscribe and tell everyone they’re wrong to disagree with me.

FITNESS

Weight’s back up. Whatever, I signed up for a shred course, this is ridiculous and has gone on far too long. I’m gonna get down to 190 by my birthday.

Get back to work.

Whatever, it’s only the 14th.

I met this dude a few times, now my kids are reading his books. Kinda cool.

WRITING

I’m a contributor at UpstreamReviews, I post weekly updates at CrackerStack, and I pick at a novel in between illustrations.

Took a break from writing because of other obligations. My main focus this week is to update a bunch of old Upstream articles that have some formatting errors.

READING

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The Stack has the details, last week was heavy on comics. This week I’m powering through that indie sequel I needed to read, and then starting SHOGUN.

DRAWING

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Most of this week was about catching up on videos (see below). However I formatted one of last week’s pen drawings for an in-world ad from HOWLING WILDERNESS.

This week I want to get another digital piece finished.

VIDEO

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Very busy week on the channel. Once again, my highest-viewed video was from Trucker Tuesday? Boy that activates the almonds…

FITNESS

Holding the line at 213. Now I’m debating whether to buy a six-week shred course so I can get back under 200 by June. Talk me into it. Then get back to work.

Swords are a big deal in Spain.

WRITING

I’m a contributor at UpstreamReviews, I post weekly updates at CrackerStack, and I pick at a novel in between illustrations.

I’m way behind schedule on an Upstream post, but I can do a writeup for both TD Hunter books I think. On the plus side I added another thousand words to my current WiP. Some of them aren’t useful but for the most part it’s constructive stuff, and I enjoy the process. On nights when I don’t have enough time to really get into the flow of drawing, I just need to sit down and hammer some words.

READING

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Decent reading this week including a book about the eclipse, which hits Oklahoma tomorrow. I’m not in the totality, but I still might get a slight glimpse of it. I’m a little bit closer than I was in 2017 when I lived in Salt Lake.

(My brother’s in Cleveland, I’m jealous.)

DRAWING

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Got a lot done this week once I started hand-drawing some of the simpler pieces for HW. The more “important” pieces will get the digital treatment.

VIDEO

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Yes, we just crossed the 2,700 sub threshold this week, it feels great! And my Trucker Tuesday video went bonkers, it got 1,000 views in just a few days, furthering my theory that I have no clue what the Internet actually wants from me.

The bigger issue is that YouTube has, for the third time in a month, limited ad revenue on one of my videos as soon as I posted it and I don’t know why. I’ve submitted each limitation for a manual review and each time it’s been approved, and I don’t know what the consistent factor is.

Anyway, the most important video I made was this one, go watch it to give it a boost. It’s been “approved” for full ads or whatever.

FITNESS

I had a couple of nights where I actually slept and my weight dropped down to 213, could this possibly be a Life Hack??? I shall have to conduct more research.

Get back to work.

Back when I was in the business of both having AND bleaching my hair…

WRITING

I’m a contributor at UpstreamReviews, I post weekly updates at CrackerStack, and I pick at a novel in between illustrations.

Another week without chapters on the Stack. I’ll post three for this week.

Other than that I’m not writing. I’m putting all production time into drawing, and to a much lesser extent, video editing. I’ll be working sixties for the next three months. Once summer hits I can probably commit some time elsewhere, that’s just the reality of it.

READING

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I’m really enjoying the comics I’m following. Video coming soon.

DRAWING

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Finished another piece this week. The bigger story is that I re-evaluated the drawings I’m going to do for this book so that I have a better shot of getting it out in the next few months. I really want to knock this beast out.

VIDEO

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Pretty productive week on the channel, this week’s main goal is to get a Forgotten Warrior video drafted and published. I’ve kicked that can down the road for a while now.

I am also going to set a reminder to publish my videos on Rumble, the sync function hasn’t been working and I need to overcome that. YouTube isn’t becoming less Draconian and Rumble is only becoming more popular. More on that as it develops.

FITNESS

Work has wrecked my schedule for the second week in a row, but I’m still holding strong on my weight (and even clocked in just under 214 this week…) so things are going okay. This week instead of trying to commit to a full workout session in the shop, my goal is to do light sessions with three focal exercises, since this is the year of Lats & Abs & Such. Tues/Thurs/Sat is the idea.

Get back to work.

I had hair once.

Short update this week, I accomplished some things and did not accomplish some other things, go subscribe to my channel. This week I am drawing a lot. Get back to work.

The ultimate defender of his own virginity

READING

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This coming week I have a book to read on the Skunkworks at Lockheed Martin, then a pseudo-LitRPG and another book I can’t remember. I also got caught up on the comics I’ve bought recently and I’ve got to say, as cool as the Energon Universe books have been, I never would have thought I’d enjoy Void Rivals over Transformers. But there’s more story from issue to issue, while the last 2-3 issues of Transformers have been kind of repetitive.

WRITING

I’m a contributor at UpstreamReviews, I post weekly updates at CrackerStack, and I pick at a novel in between illustrations.

I didn’t post any Korbadell Job segments on the Stack last week, that one got away from me. This week there will be five segments to make up for it, one chapter per day.

DRAWING

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Finished another piece for Howling Wilderness! Sixth overall. And this week I will finish a seventh.

VIDEO

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I got a new mic and the pickup is pretty good. Recording in the car just got a lot better. I started two new segments, namely Movie Monday and Trucker Tuesday. That’ll free up my production schedule for books in the latter half of the week.

FITNESS

Two straight weeks of clean eating. I did grab breakfast at a truck stop on Saturday because I had to cross OKC early in the morning and I was under a tight schedule. But I wasn’t at work for that, which is a big leap for me. This week my focus is on counting calories of what I eat, because clearly I need to rein that in. I’m also going to do at least one three-set circuit in the shop.

Get back to work.

The longer you look at it, the worse it gets.

Got whacked last week as far as productivity goes, but you can still catch reading and video updates on Substack and YouTube.

I didn’t get any writing done and didn’t finish a drawing. I did go a whole week without buying fast food or gas station junk, I ate clean, and my weight is managed well.

Get back to work.