 Happy New Year everybody. This is Brian and this is the year in review for 2021. 2022 is right around the corner. I'm gonna level with you. I've tried making this video about a dozen times and I keep getting tongue-tied or twisted or rambling or I have the wrong slide-up and it's just been that kind of year. So 2021, I'm glad to see you go. It's been a rough one. Oh man, usually when I do these I have one or two tabs but you can see I have all of these tabs. I'll try to not ramble and plow through these fairly quickly. In case you're wondering what this is, it's a year in review. There's no code. I'm gonna talk about what I've done and my plans for the future. And typically what I'll do is I'll go back and use this as like a video diary and say hey I did that or I go oh I did that. Yeah let's take a look. First and foremost COVID. Oh wow. I mean just I'm at a loss for words. I mean China back in 2019 going hey guys we're building two hospitals in under 24 hours for this new cold flu thing but nothing to panic about. You know 14 days to flatten the curve. Yeah it's been about two years now and it's changed the shape I think everybody's life. And I've got severe asthma so I did get vaccinated and I'm gonna level with you. I hated these vaccines. I got Moderna. The first shot was horrible. Second shot I thought I was gonna die and the booster was somewhere between horrible and thought I was gonna die. It was bad. It was very rough for me. However I also like I said I have bad asthma and I took myself off my asthma medication. I just didn't like the side effects. I was taking what's it called Zyrtec or Citrusyne. It's like a 24-hour anhistamine and this has been a rough year asthma wise. I think I'm gonna go back to a pulmonologist and get on some correct medication. It's just been brutal. I got married in 2019 and this is pre-COVID so you can see you know we're there and everybody's happy and well clearly I like cupcakes. I mean I had a cupcake cake. Clearly I like cupcakes. I gained a little bit more weight than I wanted to and just getting older you slow down the weight starts packing on so I put myself on a diet and I exercise you know five six days a week and I've lost 65 pounds so I look way different now than I did in this picture. And then immediately after marriage a world changed. COVID-19, Black Lives Matter, all this crazy stuff starts happening. It just seems like seems like a science fiction movie. You turn on the news and every day there's something else. BLM for example. I like the original message that Black Lives Matter. I don't like the way the BLM organization executed that. I think that it has become synonymous with violence and riots and I don't think it had the impact they wanted. I think it's it's really had a negative message unfortunately and that's a shame because I think their message their original message was a positive one. But that of course opened up other riots like people are rioting because of COVID restrictions. I mean no one wants to wear a mask. No one wants to socially distance. People are pissed off that you know their favorite restaurants are closed or they can't get into the restaurant unless they show proof of vaccination. In some countries now at the time of this recording are actually mandating vaccinations so that's scary. That's some crazy sci-fi horror movie stuff right there. People come into your home and holding you down and injecting you with things. And of course people are now rioting for well anything they are upset about. Like they don't want to pay rent. I'm sorry folks rent is just part of life. You have to pay your rent. I do get that cancel rent. They just wanted their rent canceled while they were you know originally in lockdown didn't have a job. But some groups do take this to an extreme. It's really hard to explain all of these other slides to our younger generation. Here's the the grandkids in this one. Adriana she cracks me up. Sante he's I don't know what he's doing with that napkin. But anyways their world their childhood is fundamentally changed and it's extremely worrying as an adult trying to explain this to them. So every time I get a chance and I get to hang out with these kids I just try to you know show them some good times make them happy make them forget about you know all the craziness in the world. And then of course we went through a presidential election the previous year with Donald Trump being outed and Biden being voted in. And I've had a lot of people tell me flat out they voted for Biden specifically because he was not Trump. And well they got exactly what they voted for. This has been in my humble opinion a horrible pregnancy. I almost had pregnancy. That's how many times I've tried doing this video. It's been a horrible presidency. He just mentally he's got dementia or something's wrong with him. I don't maybe they're adjusting his meds or something. But it just seems like every time he gets on camera he has no idea what he's talking about. He rambles and says things that make absolutely no sense and I mean the news even the major news outlets are really slamming Harris because she's just nowhere to be found. I mean they've said where is our vice president what's going on. She just won't even get in front of camera and what she does she's just equally as nutty. So that's just nuts. I've never seen this country as messed up as this in my entire life. And it's makes me get this face thinking about our future. But it couldn't get worse could it. I mean honestly a lot of people are going to say hey you're pro Trump you're providing. I'm not I'm not pro anybody. I hate all politicians equally. They all lie to just get into office. I think some of them when they start the political career have the best of intentions but as they mature in their career they realize they have to lie in order to get what they want. And then when they do get what they want we sorry guys can't do that or really didn't mean that. Now in his defense Biden has done some of the things that he set off to do but other things I think he just gone way off the rocker. Again couldn't possibly get worse could it. So this is not me and my wife but this is a good representation of our year. We've just been sitting on the couch watching movies and playing video games and trying to avoid all of the other nastiness that I've just covered and it's been kind of a I hate to say it it's been a boring year but at the same time it's been a very stressful one. It just seems like you can't go to you know your favorite hangout spot without it either being closed or completely booked to the point you got to make reservations six months in advance. And of course the price of everything has shot literally through the roof. It's ridiculous I was going to build this desk for my office and this desk originally what is going to be like maybe 200 bucks max. Now it would be like it'd be like $1,500 for this thing it's ridiculous I'm just gonna have to wait. So all the rambling and complaining aside what have I been doing well I've been focusing on you to me I've gotten a lot more students a lot more reviews thank you if you left a review in the first seven months literally the first seven months this year all I did was record I did beginners for cute six intermediate for cute six and advanced again I did those in seven months and this course right here in version five took me nine months I did this course and under a month that's just how much I was recording but it I think it kind of burnt me out a little bit I've just kind of like lost that spark or desire to record kind of hard to describe it's like I pull my new blue Yeti microphone up and I'm just like I just don't want to do this right now so I'm trying to slow down on these and play some video games and I'm growing the void realms group I shouldn't say I'm growing actually all the members and the admins are really growing it I'm not good with this administrative panel here's forgive me yeah this is the last month let's go last 60 days you just see boom I mean we're gaining a lot of members it's good and bad right I mean we have a lot more interaction a lot more people but at the same time it does seem to get like kind of crazy because you get a lot of people asking questions and I do realize in terms of Facebook this is a smaller group but that's really what its intention was to be a small group of highly functional and intelligent programmers that could work together and of course I've been working on YouTube I've been trying to put out videos as I can but you know all this other craziness has kind of gotten in the way I've been trying to do about a video a week and it just hasn't worked out lately I've just been so busy I'll try to keep up on it but you see I've been really focusing on cute I do want to get back into Python and other things as well and eventually I want to merge Python and cute together it's kind of funny I've been told people love these Python videos but nobody's really watching them compared to my other videos I suspect it because there's so many Python instructors out there anyways one good positive is this is the year I've been saying it for years that I would redo the FOI drums website and I actually did it so here it is I actually like it I did it in WordPress it's pretty funny it just I put this together in an afternoon and I think it's kind of neat I've got the links to the GitHub source YouTube you to me and medium I started doing blogging a little bit so once in a while I'll go out there and just write a blog but overall this year has made me tired I need a cup of coffee and a new nap that's why I'm recording this two weeks early because I'm going to take some time off and I'm going to ring in the New Year's nice and relaxed with an alcoholic beverage in my hand anyways happy New Year's everybody I hope this year's treated you a little bit better than it's treated me and I really look forward to 2022 being a much much better year hope to see you there