Oh No, More Damn Joe Stuff!

The More Damn Joe Stuff has been a great exercise. The Robot of Gmail is trying to change the tone and when I post "Damn" as the name it sends me warnings - "Are you sure you want to use this name?" But this development has helped me come up with something that gets through their blue nose filters. The Patreon work is teaching me that I need to adjust my tone, and being as my whole life is about self-education, I will educate myself. And change. moredamnjoestuff@gmail.com will become mdjoestuff@gmail.com. The blog will become the mdjoestuff blog. The video channels will be on YouTube as the mdjoestuff video channel. And the more damn joe stuff will become the mdjoestuff@gmail.com Patreon project. My own process of growing the fuck up has to be modeled in my own behavior. What good does it do to teach something they do not see me doing. Radio theater. Role-Playing Games. Recovery. Self Education. Education by topics. Real Beginner education to defy the tren...

Old Saying -- "90% of the work takes  10% of the time.  The last 10% of the work takes 90% of the time." True. But Frustrating. And Apple makes it more difficult. The new Upgrade to Apple macOS Catalina has been a disaster. Apple has changed code to prevent Open Source programs from running, which is a marketing decision. That means I cannot use Audacity to record the voice track for my Patreon promotional video. I would have to use GarageBand or Adobe Auditio n. Except it is not my first rodeo with Apple. I kept an old boot disk with OS 13.6, which ai refuse to update. I can use Audacity on that disk. But it means rebooting and losing my use of Audcity , Photoshop , and other system-dependent and registered programs. Or I can boot to Linux Ubuntu Studio and lose access to my documents on the Mac disk. But then I can use Audacity and one of the many, many open source video editors. But I need my documents. And I really need Photoshop to do the wor...

Details? ORFA is missing, but that's easy to correct. I'm coming up with a visual appearance for branding the MDJS project - Patreon, website, card... it will have to be a two-sided card. But smaller and larger versions of a banner. I'm debating how to set up the web page - as part of the oakandlotus.com publication site, or the more spiritual and non-profit concept of thewayofservice.org. And I am clearly undecided if I list it as Patreon or MRDS... but that will be easy to clarify. Less details, with some eyes. If you look at the page, I would really appreciate some feedback. It is my hope that I announce the video(s), website, and Patreon campaign are all live next Wednesday - the next Day Promo. As was yesterday. Today, for day non-fiction, I spent time working on this and with a local vets group doing some organizational work for a local support meeting - expansion, public contact, and how they operate. It was a very productive session at Denny's. I...

Going to the new week feels right. on the new Planet Joe I'm focused on a specific area - one of the five I was already juggling. But the focus is different. Monday was Day Joe and I focused on things around the house. My phone (Galaxy S8) is no longer charging - direct wire or wireless charger - so I may suddenly lose that connection. I have the old iPhone SE which I think will work - I'd have to take out the sim card yadda yadda yadda. I don't know if the SE is modern enough to work on the system. If the S8 craps out. And I still have about 9 payments to make on it. (I'm adjusting to the phone but really do not like the side touch - if you breathe on it wrong (like if your mouth was near the phone in a phone call) it opens an app. Sometimes it sends a message in fluent Gobbledegook, which gets embarrassing. But that took a lot of my focus on Monday. Tuesday was Non-Fiction so I did some work on the Patreon Video, which they seem to require to open the full P...

"The Way of Services" is another MDJS Project. More later. A big part of the Patreon project is for me to finish production, or reproduce, on a number of videos. They will include 12-Step Recovery, PTSD, Role Playing Games, and other topics within my MDJS umbrella. This is the kind of thing I have done without backing, and I think with backing I could make it even more meaningful tot he potential audience. And I do have six tracks oån the MDJS calendar, so spirit and Recovery are already in my sites. From my Facebook post earlier today. ----------------- Part of the process of More Damn Joe Stuff is video. I have a sense of design and illustration to make almost-animated instruction or tutorial films. This is a sample. I'm pleased with the design and would like to produce a voice track and find appropriate music. The soundtrack you here was from one of many Creative Commons repositories and was chosen - strictly - to suit the time int he animated film. It could ...

Many years ago, when my life began the process of rebuilding my sense of identity. I did something I have since called "The Embracement." About a week or so at a time I looked at what I could remember of my life. I have one memory before there were words, so I'm thinking less than a year old. Just sensation and images, all comfort and beauty of the world of night and snow, light and moving into a warm room. And I remembered the ceramic heater, couch-on-legs, and crawling across a specific linoleum tile. Years later my dad confirmed it was the living room of a house we moved out of when I was 18 months old. So - two memories from the first two years. Retrieved by ending the self-medication that allowed me to survive, and the beginning of the process.  I journaled and specifically mediated to see what ages brought to me. I was only 35 so it wasn't that huge. It was sometimes traumatic, sometimes magic, and year and year built up to get me to where I lived at the mome...