 All right, happy new year 2024 This is just a video blog that I do once a year. They're stupid. They're silly. They're raw. They're unedited I I don't give a flying crap what I put in these videos. These are strictly for me I only put them out here because I did one once years and years ago and Someone said hey, bro, that really helped me. Please continue doing these So I do them for that just to help people out But also just for me personally so I can sit back and go wow that happened I live through that so 2024 I Hate this year this year sucked. You can see I'm posting this video literally on New Year's Eve Like I just do not want to do this video, but I didn't think I'd have a lot to record until I started thinking about it And it's been a busy year. So let's start off with the job interview I worked for a large organization and my boss Moved up the org chain and that left a vacancy and I applied for it Didn't think I would get it because I'm already about as high up in the organization as I thought I was gonna get I'm actually higher than I thought I would ever get but Actually got the job. So wow yay me. I'm a division chief now. I never thought I would say that but So I manage Multiple supervisors that manage multiple teams who have other teams underneath them. It's like I'm So far up the org chain. I never thought I would get this high. It's like ridiculous the more I say no the more they promote me, but It's not been a fun job It just has not I now have a new fond respect for my previous boss because this is not a fun job. My last one was Was okay. I mean, we had a pretty tight knit few teams and we'd all work together We got to the point where we could like finish each other's senses and this This new job and these new teams are they're challenging. We don't always get along. Let's put it that way Ah Yes, relationships. This is the part of the video. I was dreading talking about but it actually consumes most of the year I was married notice. I said was I'm kind of like a prelude of what's going to be happening in this video, but right around December of last year actually was actually was over the summer of last year. We really just we're not getting along We were fighting quite a bit Um We had talked about divorce several times It was not fun and it just escalated and got worse and worse and worse and I'm not going to divulge My personal life to an extreme depth, but it was not a fun marriage for me at all And I would suspect she would say the same It ultimately ended up in me kicking her out That was painful. That was really painful, but I just I hit a point where I was like i'm done. I just Once a person hits that point where they're done. There's no going back. It's just we're done And ultimately it led to divorce This was a long process. This was a very long process. So I filed for divorce in february And We didn't actually get divorced until September actually on my birthday. That's right. I spent my birthday in divorce court. That was just Great Yeah, so far this has not been a fun happy video, but it does have a better ending. I promise you So future me if you're watching this video, just you know, don't stop watching it keep hope But yeah, it was just not a fun year. It's like the whole year was centered around the divorce Going back and forth with the lawyer dealing with her dealing with all the nonsense and the crappiness and We tried to work it out for a short period of time and it just it did not work at all I mean, I'm sure there'll be a bunch of comments. I'd appreciate it if everybody could be mature and professional, but It just is what it is So I got the divorce On my birthday and then shortly after the divorce I just said hey guys, I'd like to have a party not really to celebrate being divorced just to celebrate life and Like a lot of people showed up and people I haven't seen in years and even people I've never met showed up And I was like wow it was just I had a ton of food It was ridiculous like more food than I could eat in a lifetime people just showed up and they just kept showing up It was good to see everybody. It was good to just reconnect with everybody. I felt like um Divorce will really isolate you to a point. You never thought possible. So it was good to reconnect And so speaking of reconnecting I reconnected with a bunch of friends some old I made some new ones Um life just goes on it's it's kind of humbling how life can do that where you know, even when you think you're lonely And you're gonna just despair that People are like hey male, let's go hang out and I mean even like literally recording this video one of my new friends It's like hey, what are you doing today? So it's kind of good Ah dating yes dating gotta talk about you can't talk about divorce without dating So I took some time to heal and I went out into the dating world and Not really what to say about dating it's changed since covid it's changed. I mean I've been married since 2019 We were in a relationship starting 2000s late 2016 So I haven't been on the dating scene in a while right? And dating has definitely changed. It's all online now. It's all Very disconnected. I mean you'll send a message to someone and never hear back or quite the opposite You get a flood of people now a lot of my guy friends Have told me that when they go out they don't get much luck I mean one of my friends even said it was a numbers game meaning You have to shotgun your message out to a thousand women and then maybe two or three respond That was not the experience I had. I had quite the opposite experience I found wow that picture is very blurry for some reason. I found that uh When I went out of the dating scene Being a mature guy with a good career and money and you know, I'm trying to be humble I'm not a bad looking guy There was a flood. I mean a flood more women that I could talk to in a lifetime It was ridiculous. The problem is most of those women were I don't want to talk bad about most of those women were not women I would be interested in and uh I did meet some really nice women. I went on some nice dates, but it just it just wasn't there Um, there was one in particular that I kind of looked back and think Maybe I should have handled that differently Um, I didn't want it to really go any further than it did So I decided to distract myself with my projects And I've been working on something called magic eight ball and I'll talk about that more in the video I think I've talked about it ad nauseam on my youtube channel But I've really really been getting into the stock market and I've been making metric ton of money. I mean it's I'm I'm literally at a loss for words because I can't believe that I can make this much money in the stock market. It's ridiculous. So um I know somebody watching this. So how are you doing it? So that's something I'm going to talk about is magic eight ball and this is actual numbers. You don't know what magic eight ball is it is a Stock market prediction software engine that I created and I put videos out on my youtube channel And I've just been pouring like all of my free time and energy into this thing. Um a because I love doing it and b I'm making a lot of money doing it and c it really keeps me distracted from all Of the things that I've mentioned so far um If you don't know what like a butterfly condor vertical or a sonar are these are options trading for day trading They're just different types of margin trades basically uh sonar is one That I actually designed from scratch, but like butterfly condors and verticals are industry wide So the accuracy if you look at that accuracy line that is what you really should focus on you see like 85 percent all the way up to 97 percent that means Regardless of what time of day you log in you can just literally copy and paste a trade from this engine into your stockbroker and you have Upwards of a 97 chance of making full profit on that trade. I mean this is like alchemy turning lead into gold. This is ridiculous um It has gotten huge it's gotten really huge and I have not even advertised this beyond just randomly talking about it in some of My youtube videos and I made a few how-to videos Um, it seems like everybody really wants to make money and this software makes it super easy to do that So I personally trade spx zero date zero dte and I've been making some really good money lately I've been experimenting with sxp, which is a smaller version of spx Um, basically if you don't know what those are they track the smp 500 The top 500 companies in the stock market I don't want this to turn into a stock market video. This is my video blog But um, yeah, if you're interested, there's a ton of videos in my youtube channel And I will talk about it a little bit towards the end here and show you the actual discord Um, but yeah doing that. I've met a ton of people. Um, some of them. I don't even know what they look like Um, this is all on the internet on discord. These are very smart people. Some of them way smarter than me We talk about stocks constantly. I mean my My phone is sitting there next to me and it's vibrating because I got people in my stock group even on new year's eve Sitting there talking about stocks and strategies and things like that. So it's It's actually very humbling that it's taken on a life of its own and I feel very privileged and honored to be a part of this Um, I also built this Giant gaming computer. This is the actual computer right here, and I'll show you the specs later on But uh, this is what I'm literally sitting on recording right now Um, I love it. It's absolutely great. I just decided, you know what? I've been through hell and back this year and I've had this computer that I love and it's been rock solid But I've had it since like 2013 It was literally 10 years old and it was starting to really struggle with video games I had to replace the graphics card, but it was still bottlenecking. So I said, you know screw it I'm making a ton of money. I might as well just treat myself because I never really buy myself anything nice. So this is my My gaming computer slash video editing computer is massive. We'll go over the specs and if you see Over in the lower left hand corner a blood pressure cuff. I probably should move that but yeah, I still have health issues Um, so I just kind of pour my time and energy into things that allow my health to really maintain Ah Yes before texting your extra mind yourself why it ended This is going to be a a warning to everybody. This is a trigger alert for all those watching um Rewind back to the beginning of this I went through a divorce and I don't want to say it was a nasty divorce But no divorce is ever fun, right? I think divorce wise this probably went as smooth and as fairly as it possibly could We had a post-nuptial agreement And I would recommend anyone if you're getting married get a pre-nuptial agreement that will save you a ton of money I actually went out and started making a video series on divorce. I haven't really advertised it yet But I'll show you that series here a little bit. I may actually put a link down below But if you're already married consider getting a post-nuptial agreement and that's what we got um The relationship wasn't going good And I just basically sat there and said hey, you know, I really want this And if you don't want it then it's time for us to end and We ended it but then we briefly got back together She wanted to sign the post-nuptial agreement. So we signed it. We gave it a try didn't work out We ended up getting divorced anyways, but that post-nuptial agreement that just made The divorce process very simple It was okay. This is what we've already agreed upon and this is what's going to happen It wasn't a bunch of yelling and screaming. It was just very fair to both of us, but um Yeah, we We started talking again recently. No, we're not like getting remarried or anything like that. It's just I have a hard time Letting friendships go and she was my wife. She was my best friend for a while So I want to at the bare minimum at least be on friendly terms with her and I've never done that with an x It's whenever I'm with an x and I hit that limit done. I'm just screw them. I'm done um Yeah, I'm just giving her the benefit of the doubt Keeping my guard up being very cautious and mindful about my situation and what I can achieve out in the dating world if I really wanted to because like I said You know dating's changed and it's very Very crazy out there right now All right It's crazy how you can go months or years without talking to someone but they still cross your mind every day This this quote really hit me hard one day. I don't know why why is that image so blurry But uh, not necessarily about my ex just about friends and people in life, you know, it's We're coming off the end of a pandemic and you know, so many people in my life I've just been disconnected and there's people I haven't talked to in years and I actually sat down and asked myself Why you know, why am I been talking to some of my friends? So Just reconnecting with people is really what I'm getting at So what does the future hold? Um, I don't know. This is a really weird time in my life. I'm I'm single for the first time in a long time I'm making A lot of money It's an embarrassing amount of money and I want to really focus on continuing that and then retiring and just enjoying life while I'm young enough to enjoy it because Rewind I hate almost died a few years ago. So that's ever present in my mind that hey that clock is ticking No, I'm not dying now I do still have some health issues And I see my doctors regularly I'm actually considered fairly healthy for my age I'm only 49 years old and I say only because 49 years old is still fairly young in terms of death So they're still struggling to figure out why I almost died. So I meet with my doctors every three to six months and Some days are really good. Some days are not so good and I just you know, I deal with each day That being said, I'm actually fairly active. I'm exercising. I'm dieting. I'm taking care of myself I just have to be kind of cautious because we still just don't know and that's always in the back of my mind Um, whether or not I'm going to die. Well, we're all gonna die. You just got to make terms with that But it's not going to be today in family, um, actually been reconnecting with family I a lot of you don't know this and I'm not going to really divulge a lot of it but I grew up alone and I recently at 49 years old Connected with my mom and been chatting with her and gone down and we've had lunch and she's come up here and we've had lunch We've exchanged Christmas gifts. It's It's kind of weird. I'm I'm eager to see where it goes. I've never really had much family that I connected with other than my daughter So it's just kind of interesting to see where things are So that's been the year in review so far and let's just close that out. Let's flip over here Um as promise Um, this is magic eight ball. This is the stock market engine. I've been working on it's all in discord And this is just grown out of proportion like I'm still in all let's see how many members we got here at the time of this recording we have 771 members and that let's just flip all the way back to the beginning. These are not dummy accounts These are real accounts. These are people in here watching this thing and interacting so To say this discord server is busy is an understatement and we're just in here constantly talking and exchanging things and trading ideas And we have different mentors. This is not just me. This is not like an army of one kind of thing I invite experts in here. So like we have like Ernie from zero dte um From aramir trading we have amplified investing acts options. Love you guys uh Vance and team with buy the numbers. I mean so these are Some of the leading experts and then we have people, you know, like sort of he's not like He's not like professionally selling his services. He's just a really great guy that likes to share what he knows So we have, you know, just normal folks in here as well Um, and we have, you know, option sandy. She's really great. I talked to her once in a while And here are the actual predictions. I'm sure this is what everybody's wondering what they look like So I'm gonna give you the old engine. This is the old one right here So it gives you just a text wall Here are the actual trades in case you're wondering what the heck I've been jibbering on about but you would just like copy the trade So because there's an iron condor you'd copy that and you paste it into your brokerage Um, and then here's the actual charts So like it gives you like a tracking chart. It's kind of a hot mess. I don't like the older version You can see it's just kind of haphazard. I was still learning the charting engine And then here's the sonar chart. This is a custom algorithm I wrote and then here's the new version which I have not yet published, but it's coming out very very soon You can see it's much much sharper and better looking So it has the text wall with more metrics. It has the trades, of course And it has the tracking chart and that may seem a little busy. It was kind of a busy day And it has this quad chart. So it shows you the calls versus the puts This is the internal market structure And from there it formulates a big calculation called sonar Which shows you exactly where that market's going to go and it kind of breaks it out. So if you're curious You can see the prediction Is this gold line where the price is this magenta line you can see them on the chart here And I'll take something a little less busy. So this would be like xsp You can see it's got the similar structure, but it shows you exactly I mean the laser point or where that thing's going to go And in terms of Accuracy let's balloon this out. I mean, this is how accurate It was on friday. I mean, look at that. It's insane I sometimes I sit back and go, wow, I wrote this thing, but uh, I actually have a lot of computer skills Um, if you've been watching my channel, you probably know that because void drums Is mostly about computer education Um, I haven't really done any Udemy videos this year. It's been a horrible year And I haven't done a whole lot of youtube videos either. They've mostly been about magic eight ball I was doing a python three series where I was teaching python I kind of left off on that a few years ago. Um, I'm not giving up on recording So if you really love my my educational stuff, especially computer programming, don't worry. I'm not giving up on it. I'm just Between almost dying having health issues and getting a divorce. I'm just spent and I need to take a breather on it So I've been focusing my time and energy on, you know, magic eight ball the stock market thing Along with I did a new youtube channel called the divorce survival guide I have not even advertised this. This is really I've thrown it on a facebook, but this is really the first time I've been talking about it publicly And it's me talking about divorce And stages of the divorce and what you can expect and how to get over, you know The heartbreak that you deal with and divorce and just how to deal with the legal system because that is a minefield And they don't teach you that I had to do a lot of research So it's still fairly new and I haven't done a video in two months. I got to make another video here soon And last but not least here's the gaming computer that I built. I mean, this thing's just a beast So when I'm not working on magic eight ball, I'm actually playing video games Um, we got the intel core i9 You know 13k we got the kraken z73 liquid cooler gigamite motherboard. I mean more ram than I know what to do with I mean, I literally have 128 gigs of ram in this thing um The four terabytes of storage What am I gonna do with four terabytes? I have no idea You know this graphics card, I mean, look at this This was worth more money than some laptops that I've paid for just for the graphics card and this thing's so big It actually has a metal beam that holds the card up because without it it would snap the motherboard in half Um, it's just a beast, but I love it and of course a bunch of noctua quiet fans And mouse and keyboard and all that and the case I got the coarser 7000 d airflow. I mean this computer's just a beast, but I absolutely love it Um, I do all my video gaming and video recording on it. Um, I wish I had more time to spend on it actually, but uh So that in a nutshell has been my year. It's been a crazy year It's been interesting. I've learned a lot about life. I've learned a lot about people And I think most importantly I've learned a lot about myself Um, for example, let me flip back to these images here When I thought about dating in the past. I never really Really looked at dating, you know, I've been out and dated before but I never really cared about it too much, you know And going out into the dating world was kind of shocking for me. I mean just I'm just a bald older white guy. There were a ton of women that were asking me out. It was ridiculous um, you may drop your own comments below in your own speculations as to why but It was just eye-opening me that uh, the world's changed like that divorce was It was painful and I don't think I'm still fully over it, but I think I'm way better than I was earlier in the year so anyways That's my year in review. Um, if you're watching this, I hope you have a great year I hope this next year brings all of us peace and happiness and I'll see you in 2024