 How are you all doing today? Great to see you, Sammy. And Jeff, nice to see you here too and a few others in the background as well. And yeah, there is quite a lot of echo in that studio. It's going to be interesting to see what effect all of the sound stuff that I'm going to do in there has. I'm hoping it's going to do quite an effective job. So yeah, this week has been, I'll say this week, only the past couple of days really, has been the studio build. To be honest, I've not had a very productive week from a YouTube point of view. Hey, Tony, great to see you here. Yeah, so this week in my YouTube channel, you may have noticed if anybody's been following along with my Vlogmas videos that haven't really been any Vlogmas videos this week. I did do one yesterday, which was about the studio, but apart from that, zero, zero productivity from a YouTube perspective. Some stuff going on in the background, obviously, as always. And that other thing called work. But yeah, my parents arrived last week and great to see you Gretchen. Hi, how are you doing? Yeah, my parents arrived last week, last Friday. And so yeah, basically, I've just been spending time with them. Haven't seen them for two years. So yes, the YouTube productivity has suffered because that's where my time's been going instead. But I will just give my regular update on my channel because I am still aiming for my goal of 365 videos in my first year on YouTube. Actually, it's around about six months now since I started because it was 15th of May was my first live stream, first video to YouTube. So yes, just about six months. It's not six months, it's seven months. There you go though. And let me just stick this up. So here we are week. Do you know what? I've not updated the days on this. We're actually on week day 218. But I've updated the video. So 174 videos, so only really two more than last week. And 932 subscribers. So that's gone up by almost 50 actually in the last week. So that's quite a lot compared to previous weeks. And we're nearly at that target of 1000. Not that it's a major milestone, but it is just one of those YouTube milestones, isn't it? To get to the 1000 subscribers and 4000 watch hours. Well, I've passed 4000 watch hours quite a long time ago actually. So yes, we'll see where I get up to. But perhaps I'll be there by the end of the year. Still got two weeks to go. And at the sort of rate that my subscribers normally increases, I should probably get there before New Year. So that'd be nice little milestone to hit before the end of the year. And yeah, so what have I been doing this week? Well, as I say, the vlogmas has taken a bit of a backseat as has the rest of my content creation. And also the course creation. So I'm creating my zoom course. So the plan was to be doing an update on the zoom course on every one of my live streams. To be honest, there hasn't been a huge amount of tangible progress that I can actually show yet. So I've been still been doing some more stuff on the the back end started making some of the videos. But yes, nothing to actually show you in terms of the process and things like that. So perhaps that will be now next week instead where I can show you the sort of all the funnels that I've built out for it, which should technically be finished by then. Although I'm not quite sure that what I'm going to do with that. Because for me, my next live stream would be would be Christmas Day. So I'm probably not going to get up and do an early morning Christmas Day live stream. I'll have to figure out something about that. See what I'm going to do instead. So but yeah, I have been doing the the the studio build. And this is going to by the way, I feel like this is going to be a bit of a short live stream. But what I'll do is I'll stick up my link in a moment. So anybody who does want to jump on and come and chat about anything is welcome to do so. But yeah, I did start my my studio build. So I've been on and off with it really. I said that I was going to do it a couple of weeks ago and then it sort of got put on the back burner because Santa Claus was using it as a Thailand based storage depot for Christmas presents. But I've told him to find somewhere else and we've we've cleared it out again. So yeah, what I've done so far, far though with it is I have completely cleared it out and I've painted it with the paint color as recommended by Doc Rock, of course. And I've got myself a couple of Nanlite pavo tubes for the the colored light. And yeah, I've it's actually quite quite amazing really to see how well it absorbs the color. Now what a little picture, which is actually four pictures somewhere here. So this is basically four pictures of a grey wall with different colored light on it. And in fact, it was actually the same. It was actually after the first coat of paint. So you can see how it's a little bit a little bit blotchy there. But it's quite amazing how it does just give such vibrant color, even though it's just a sort of a grey a grey paint, basically. And it is darker than I was expecting as the grey without the paint. So you wouldn't really think that it would give such a vibrant color, but it does nevertheless. So that's where we are with that. I've also got this one with sorry for the cheesy grin there. That was the wall with a couple of lights on it just to see how it's taking on the color. So the space is around about, let me think how big it is now. I've forgotten in feet how big it is. It's about 12. No, no, hang on a minute. It is four meters. So that is about 12, 13 foot by about 3.2, which is about 10 foot. So say 10, 11 foot by about 13 foot, something like that is the size of it. That was the video that I posted for my vlogmas video. There is quite an echo in it, but I'm going to do a lot of sound treatment with it. Let me just pop this one up while I remember. If anybody fun sees coming on and having a chat about anything. So yes, I did the painting. I say I did the painting. I actually got some cheap foreign labor in in terms of my father from the UK visiting. So he's been helping with the painting as well. And then yet lots of other things to do. I've beefed up the security a little bit because it's a completely separate building at the bottom of the garden. So with the amount of stuff that I'm going to be putting in there, I just thought I wanted it to be a little bit more secure. So added a bit more security to the windows and things like that. Got to add a better lock on the door as well. But then a few other things to do in there before I can sort of even think about moving in. One of which is adding in a hard-wired internet. So it's a bit far away from the house to have good Wi-Fi and I wouldn't want to rely on that in any case. So I'm going to run a LAN cable to it. So it's around about 50 meters. I think 45 meters actually from sort of router to the desk. So yeah, I've got that cable on the way, which should be arriving tomorrow I think. So I'm going to get that in there so that I can have obviously hard-wired internet. And then I've also got some acoustic insulation coming. So these are panels which are basically two foot by four foot and then two inches thick. And these are sound absorption material. So it's rather than, there's lots of different materials you can use. I've obviously been to the school of YouTube for how to make acoustic panels and there's lots of different ways you can do it. I saw one really good one. And in fact, Rich mentioned this on one of my other live streams about a guy who basically made wooden frames and then just filled it with old towels and then covered that with material. And it's amazing the effect it has on the acoustic. So at the moment, obviously it's an empty room so it's very echoey. But yeah, I'll be making these with this acoustic insulation and then just wooden frame and some material over the front of them. I think it was Greg last week actually on my stream said about how you can get the material printed so that you can put prints over the top of the frames. So have them actually become works of art. I don't know that I've got the time to do that to be honest or nowhere I could get that done locally. So I might give it a miss for now but then maybe add them on later. So for now it'll probably just be plain material. And yes, that's right, Jeff. I've got to keep him on his toes, keep him busy. So yes, that's the next step really. Those are coming tomorrow, I think tomorrow. So then I need to get the timber to make the frame and then the material. Well, yes, it wasn't old wet towels. It was some quite thick ones. But yeah, it was quite effective though, wasn't it? So I'm going to have quite a lot of these actually. So I've ordered the insulation sheets. The sound insulation comes in six pieces per box of all the two of those. So it's basically, let me just do the quick maths, 12 or math should I say for my American friends. So yeah, there'll be 12 of them. And then I've got some, there's some windows in the building. And one of them is going to be directly behind my monitor. So it'll be blocking out in any case. So I'm just actually going to completely block that with sound insulation permanently fixed in there. But then I've also got another window, which is kind of like in the entryway. So I'm going to have a curtain that just sort of covers where that is. So it blocks the light out when I record. And also the sound. But then there's another window going to be right next to where I have the desk. So I'm going to create a, one of these panels that's basically on a slider. So I can slide it to cover the window when I'm recording and then slide it back to get the, the light, the view and the fresh air when I'm not. And then apart from that, there'll be, those will be kind of like double sized panels, but then I'll have some more round the walls and also on the ceiling. So I think it should be pretty straightforward to make them. There's not a lot to them. It's literally just a wooden frame with some stuff in it and some materials stretched over it and sort of stapled around the back. And yeah, it should make a huge difference. It's also going to help obviously a little bit with not just the echo in the room, but potentially sound from outside. Although the, the hour of the day that I generally record at is probably not going to be that much of an issue in any case. So I'm just going to, I'm still going to get an air con in there. Although to be honest at this time of year, it doesn't get too hot in there because it's technically the cold season. And yeah, it's gets down quite cool in the, in the evening and then in the daytime, although it does get hot. It's, you know, everything's all cooled down. It's not like we're in these baking ovens that have been warmed up all through the day and never get a chance to cool. So the heat isn't such an issue at the moment, but I do want to, get an air con in there for planning ahead to the month after, because that's basically February. It's going to start heating up again. Although it's quite good where the, the little building is positioned. It's got lots of sort of natural shade and things like that. So I shouldn't get too hot in there. I've got to think about how to do the air con though, because the compressor needs to be a way. I don't want to be sitting with a compressor just on the other side of a wall. So I'm just going to, I'm just going to, move that out of the way a little bit. I was hoping when I plan to do this studio, that I'd be getting my new Sony ZV-E10 to use. But I don't know if you're aware, there has been some, I was going to say supply issues. It's not really supply issues. It's just that Sony have said they are putting production on hold due to the global chip shortage. That's a little bit disappointing. I already couldn't get it done. So I'm going to go ahead and get it done. That's a little bit disappointing. I already couldn't get it in Thailand from, when I was looking at my usual sources in Thailand, I couldn't get hold of one when it had first launched. And then now it looks like, I may have missed the boat for the moment. So I'm going to have to have a little think about where I can source one of those from now. But nevertheless, I can still just use my old camera until I, until I find somewhere to get that from. I did order though, one of those Elgato Wave LP low profile arms rather to replace my current mic arm, which is, it's just a regular, regular arm that you'll see on, well, it's just the regular cheap arms that you can get from Amazon for mounting a mic onto. And then I've got it sort of on a cupboard over to one side. So it's separate, separate from the desk. And it basically means that it kind of is a low profile arm. It sort of comes out at about 20 centimeters off the desk in any case. However, in the new, new space, then I won't really have the space necessarily for this cupboard next to it. And I plan to make a new, a new desk in any case. I'm not going to do that straight away. I've got enough on my plate in December without starting to build a whole new desk setup. And so I'm going to give it a little bit more time to that and put a bit more thought into it. So I'll just be using my regular desk. I am going to convert it to a standing desk. I want to say convert it to a standing desk. I'm either going to bolt some longer legs to it or stand it on top of something, but I've decided to go for the standing desk in the, in the new office. So, so yeah, but after that, I'll make myself a new custom desk. But yeah, just haven't got the time. I've still got to obviously all of the rest of the, the zoom course to make. So that should be keeping me busy for probably for the rest of the month, in fact. So yeah, just want to get into the studio part of the reason to make the studio in advance rather than wait until the new year, which is kind of what I thought I'd do is because it will be useful to be able to do some of the filming for the zoom course in there because usually I'm just obviously with my, my green screen. And I could do some filming in here, but it's just not really set up for it. So yeah, I figured I'll just start a fresh over in there and I can do some of the other sort of things, other content for the zoom course I can just do in there where I am talking about things like acoustics and such like. So, so that's the, that's the plan there. But yeah, it's going to be a busy two weeks. And I've got us, I've got a shoehorn Christmas in there somehow as well. And Tim, let me just have a look at this comment. Tim Schmoyer. I don't think I've heard of him. In fact, I forget who I, whose, whose video it was I saw. Hey, Dean, great to see you here. So, so yeah, I can't, I'm not sure I've seen, seen him. I'm not sure what his, his channel is, but I'll have to go and check that up, check that out. It will be a good Gretchen to have another space. You see here where I am at the moment, I'm down in the basement. And this is great because I've got a consistent space. So it's good. I've got my green screen, my lights and everything. And it's usually nice and quiet down here. However, when the kids are up, then the living room is directly above me. So you tend to hear lots of that going on as they're running around and playing upstairs, especially as they've been off so much recently as well. But yeah, just having a dedicated space is going to be a bit better. I'm a bit close to the wall behind me actually, or the green screen, I should say. So in the new space, it'll be a bit better to have a little bit more space to work with. I'm also going to put in a sort of like a workbench and do some other stuff on there. And yeah, maybe have some different camera angles as well to cover some of those sorts of things as well. Although, to be honest with you, I'm not sure that the sort of stuff I'll be doing on there is necessarily suitable for my regular channel, but we'll have to see what it finds its way into. So yeah, that's where I'm up to with the studio really. What other things have I got to do in there? I still haven't figured out what I'm going to do with the back wall in terms of how it's going to look. So at the moment, I've obviously got just a completely blank canvas. I'll just pop that image up again. It is a totally blank wall at the moment and obviously the wall's down the side. I've still got to go in and figure out exactly what the shot will be in terms of what will be in view and not in view. I like Lewis, Mr. Camera Junkie, Mr. Camera Junkie, can't speak today, where he talks about the cone of cleanliness, which is what you can see in the angle of the camera, although I tend to be quite tired in any case, but I do want to know where it can actually see so what the frame will be like in terms of what I've got to figure out to put in there. Someone did recommend that I try and make an exact replica of my green screen background. So yeah, I'll have to think about that, although I don't think I'm going to do that. I think I'm going to have some sort of shelves rather than just a sofa in there because I do tend to accumulate quite a few things, so I probably would need some shelves in there in any case, so I'll figure that out. I mentioned last week about the YouTube channel Abroad in Japan about a guy whose surname is Broad and he's in Japan, where he made a complete ramen shop set in his condo, so that was his background. Or the users, at least in some of his videos, it did make me think about the whole idea of building out a complete set as opposed to just a regular room, but I don't think I'm going to go there just yet. I might leave it quite free-flowing and flexible, to be honest with you, so that it can add different things in or change it all up later, but for the time being, it will probably be maybe a plant, maybe some lights, maybe some shelves. But then what's put on the shelves, you see? It's tricky, isn't it? Yeah, I'll have to give a bit of thought to that. So yeah, that is where I'm up to this week. To be honest with you, I have not got a huge amount to talk about. I've got loads to talk about, but not related to this channel. So if anyone's got any questions about the studio, the Zoom course, or anything else that I generally talk about on my channel, feel free to drop them into the chat. Or if anyone fancies just popping on for a chat about anything tech or vlogmas related, then just hit up the link down below, takeonetech.io slash join. So speaking of vlogmas, by the way, not only have I not been making my own videos this past week, pretty much, I've also not been keeping up with everyone else's vlogmas videos. I was trying to keep up, but I failed. And again, it's just family time as opposed to video time. So I've hardly watched anything. And in fact, yeah, I've been getting up and just having to do my regular work stuff, which obviously never stops. But yeah, I've not kept up. So I've got to really, really get back on to catching up with everyone's vlogmas, because it was good fun watching them all in for the first week or two weeks. What week are we in now? We're coming into week three, I suppose, aren't we? What is the duration of the Zoom course likely to be? It will be around about 30 hours, something like that. Maybe it'll be maybe 25, 30, something like that. When I've planned it all out, it just depends on as I go through and make the videos. So sometimes it might take a little bit longer. Let me just add this person in. One second. Just add in guest number one. Whoops. And that is set to guest number two. That's no good, is it? Let me just unlock that. And I have to take this off for a second, change this to guest one. That's a bit... Hey, Rich, how are you doing? Lovely, lovely to see you, sir. How are you? Yeah, very good. How are you? Oh, awesome. Let me turn my... You're coming on my phone, hang on a second. There we go. How's everything going? Very good, very good. Thanks. Good to be spending some time with family. How about you? How's everything there? Oh, we're just jammed up, busy as we can be. I'm with you on the not being able to watch a lot of vlogmas stuff. So it's kind of... It's, you know, I don't know, it's busy. I mean, our regular work is busy, but your regular work is busy. So I guess, I don't know. Have you kept up with the advent calendar or did you just stop doing those? Or did you do them all? No, I haven't done that. I haven't even had the time to go into it. I mean, they're like 30 seconds, aren't they? But I've just felt like I've not been in the frame of mind. For some reason, I thought you had done them all ahead of time and you were just releasing them one day at a time. No, no, I was literally going in and just recording one on the day. And then that's what I should have done, really, what you said. But no, I was just going in and recording him and like, I've been doing XYZ and here's the latest thing. So I'll be, I'll be driving around saying, oh man, I forgot to look to see if there was one of those. I'm going to go back and get them all. That's the plan anyway, go back and get them all and have a whole stream back stream bank, stream deck bank of sound. Yeah, yeah. I've got all the clips. I just haven't actually recorded the little videos for them. So I'll probably go in today. I'll go in and just do... Yeah, I used to love advent calendars when I was little and occasionally you'd miss a day and then I'd go down and just open two of them and get two treats instead of one. I'll probably do that. Just go back and open the last four days, six days and then pick it up again. I do have a question though. Are we going to get to meet your folks? I don't know to be honest. Then usually not up at this time. That's the thing. Well, you know, that thing set up all day long. You can drag them down there anytime you want. That's true. That's true. They don't have to come at four in the morning. That's true. Yeah, maybe I'll get them into a video or two. At least so we can see where all this brilliance comes from. Yeah, it's been trained into me. Is that it? Yeah. The looks skipped my generation though and went straight to my kids. The nerve. I know. It's terrible, isn't it? Yeah, it's horrible. I'm trying to figure out how to get... Oh, I can't. Never mind. Okay. I was going to bounce over to YouTube to see the comments, but I can see the comments right here. Yeah, so Jeff is saying, Michael is doing a great job with his... He is doing a great job with his Michael from Wrinkle City, of course, doing a great job with his vlogs and videos. Yeah, I've got to catch up with his last few as well. I've missed those, I'm afraid, but yeah, he's been... He was trying to... The last thing he was trying to do was install Rosetta. He was trying to download it and install it to make a Final Cut plugin work. Right. I don't think Rosetta works that way. If you need it, it installs, but I don't think there's a way to... You know, he had instructions on how to hack it with a terminal somehow, but... So he sent me a question about that, a video about that. So I sent him one back where basically with keyboard maestro, you can have it run a terminal command. So I sent him a keyboard maestro macro, which is basically just step one, run the terminal command. Step two is open Final Cut. So fingers crossed that works. By the way, your keyboard maestro start and stop the stream thing works like a champ. That's a great idea. Right. Right. That's brilliant. I actually beefed it up a little bit to make sure that you can't was running before it executes and things like that. Oh, cool. Yeah, of course. It's really an awesome thing to have. You could also, I thought afterwards, as well do it where if you wanted to do multiple different streams, then you could have it on a timer. You could also use it to change profiles as well. So you can have it activate, keyboard maestro can activate a menu command. So because all of the profiles are technically in a list in a menu, they actually become menu commands themselves. So you could just flip to a different profile, start another stream. In fact, on the one that I tried, I set up an opening screen that's outside the fold. On mine, it has the folder that rotates with 10 scenes in it or whatever. And I set up a scene outside of that that has like a starting screen on it. And that's where I start the stream from. And then the very first thing is it goes into the folder. Well, first it runs that scene, and then it goes into the folder and starts the next one. Got you. And so, and then it just runs. So it's kind of neat the way that works. It's awesome. How's that going? By the way, I've not been in and checked on your music. Not very well. She comes in and I mean, I can't, I mean, I guess I could do it now, but I started having some kind of audio issues with that on that's a brand new Mac mini 16 with a two terabyte hard drive. So and I started having some kind of audio skips. So when you're playing like a song through Spotify, which is what it does. It's epidemic sound stuff. Um, it just, it sounds like a record skipping. And I'm, and I'm, and I'm in the middle of some stuff with, with a Ecamp trying to, with Ecamp support trying to troubleshoot that. So that's, so it has not been running this week. Right. Right. Aside from those two times to test it, but I did run a four hour one and I did run a 10 hour one. They both work like a champ. So cool, cool. That's good to know. So the timer thing worked out fine. Yeah. Um, uh, Deena just quickly has asked, uh, I'm hoping the zoom course will cover Ecamp virtual camera use with a keynote presentation. It will indeed. So it's a, obviously everything from about to do with zoom, but then it's how to get more out of zoom with applications and things like that. So one of them will be obviously Ecamp. So it will be a lot about how to bring Ecamp into zoom and then do effective presentations using Ecamp. And so it'll be a bit of both really. I'm, I'm tempted to actually split out the Ecamp stuff, leaving it in the course, but also use that as a standalone Ecamp course as well. Uh, after the fact. So it'll all be included in the zoom stuff, but then it could almost be just a zoom, an Ecamp masterclass as well and just take that little section. Well, those other streaming softwares have a virtual camera as well. StreamYard or Restream or VMIX. Do they not have that? Uh, I know OBS does. I don't really know about, uh, I've never really used StreamYard or anything like that. StreamYard with a browser based or, um, but I thought StreamYard and OBS were the, I thought StreamYard was like a branded version of OBS. Is that not true? Oh, uh, so there's StreamYard and the StreamLabs. So StreamLabs. StreamLabs. Well, I'm not sure. I get confused with all those things. I just thought they had virtual virtual camera. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'll obviously be, uh, I'll obviously be talking about Ecamp though, because the principles will be the same, but yeah, I'll be doing like a lot of heavy Ecamp stuff in there as well. Well, basically an Ecamp, you just turn on the virtual camera and go to town. So it's not like, well, I guess you're doing keynote or PowerPoint. You have to integrate it somehow. So. Yeah. So the reason for me covering it all in the zoom course though is because the target audience of the zoom course is actually people not like us who have already got some sort of camera setup in that. It's for people who are still going with the camera of the no shot on their laptop and I haven't done it. Oh, so you're not even talking about camera quality or anything like that. You're just trying to beef up somebody, whatever they have with a web camera. No, no, I mean, whatever. Yeah. No, I will be talking about cameras and stuff, but what I mean is the target audience probably won't know anything about Ecamp necessarily to begin with. Of course. Or max. Yeah. So I'm going to be marketing it to, um, as well as obviously the Ecamp community for the zoom side, it'll also be people from outside of the Ecamp community. Uh, and so there'll be like a whole section in there that will be just a kind of almost like an Ecamp master class as part of it. So, uh, yeah, that's the, uh, that's the plan with that. And, uh, yeah, Jeff is saying that I've got to get a picture of my dad with the paintbrush in hand. Yeah. Uh, oh yeah. So my call that is doing his today in history series. And that's, uh, I think I think he started doing that as his, um, uh, vlogmas, but I think he's going to maybe continue with that afterwards, which is pretty interesting. Uh, another set of updates to keyboard maestro just issued. Yeah. Was that, was, was it being another one now? Yeah. There was one not long ago. Um, it's had a few more little wrinkles ironed out in it and miles. Miles. Hey, great to see you. Miles. What does that have to do with anything? I'm not sure. Oh, okay. I'm not sure. I thought maybe I missed something. Yeah. Uh, but anyway, hi, Miles. Great to see you. And, uh, yeah, glad you, glad you like that, Dina. There we go. We're all caught up. Uh, yeah, I've not even watched, uh, Doc's stream for the past. I didn't watch the LGL stream. What was it yesterday? The day before? I remember the, uh, Thursdays are bad for me. I'm not a part of it, but I couldn't keep up. And then the stream today, the demo stream, I was running around this afternoon. So I couldn't make that either. I caught the last, last seconds of it, but. Yeah. I think that's what I caught. I caught the last five seconds when I just got up and it was, uh, basically saying there's not going to be any more this, uh, this year till next year. Yeah. There was a Christmas party next week though. Don't forget about that. I'll definitely be there for that. Yeah. Is that, are you awake during that time? It will be, uh, I think it's, it's either two AM or one AM, I think two AM. Um, yeah. Two AM Christmas Eve. It'll be for me. Your work schedule. Are you working next week or not? Uh, yeah. Real work, the work that pays the bills work. Yeah. Yeah. I've got stuff to do. So, uh, so yeah. Yeah, basically. Yeah. Uh, I'll be a bit flexible with it, but, uh, yeah, I'll be, I'll be working from. Oh, till the end of the year, basically, I'll be doing a bit of that. And the zoom course though, I've still got to do recorded for that. So, uh, it doesn't really feel, I don't mean like, you know, all, all day necessarily it doesn't, nothing feels like work to me. That's, that's one of the things I feel quite lucky is it's all just feels like, or just feels fun and interesting. Um, Miles has asked, I'm curious to know how wide your desk will be in the studio. The desk that I've got at the moment is basically five foot by three foot, but I would like a bigger desk. So, uh, I'm going to make one that's maybe, uh, six or seven foot by four foot. So that I'm a bit further back from the screen, but just got space to sort of spread out and do stuff on. I'd say often I have like, although I do lots of stuff on, you know, on the computer and on the screens, I do also like pen and paper sometimes and, uh, like large sheets of paper and doing stuff like that on and just having space to move stuff out of the way. So I will be building a desk, but yeah, not initially when I first move in, I'll just get in there. It sounds like, it sounds like a door and a couple of saw horses is all you need. Yeah. Do you know, it's funny you should say that I had a hardware store yesterday and then I walked past the door section and I just suddenly looked and thought, hmm, some pretty, pretty flat, you know, without any decoration on it, just a completely flat door. I heard that a long time ago, somebody said that if you're going to start up a company, spend all your money on chairs and they'll spend money on desk because then people would be happy to be, happy to be sitting around. So you buy a fancy chair, but the door and a couple of saw horses is a desk. You don't need anything more than that. Yeah. It's relatively cheap here. Certainly a lot cheaper than it would be in the UK is granite. And when I was in my office in town, I've actually, I ended up selling it when we moved out of the office. But it was a, it was a big L shaped desk, but with a granite top on it. And that was just, that felt good. It was very easy to keep clean, look good and. Gosh, it'd be a pain, it'd be such a pain to move though. I mean, I would never ever want to own that thing. It was a bit of a, it was a bit of a pain, but it was just aesthetically, it was very easy to get. I had a, when out in my younger days, I had a pool table and I moved twice with that pool table. And the third time I moved, I just left it behind. I didn't want it. I just said, forget it. Yeah. They're, they're quite weighty. Yeah. I just said forget it. It was over with. Uh-huh. Uh, what's my old saying? Uh, yeah. So I've got, I've got a designer and, uh, and get to get something built. I'm still trying to figure out exactly what to, how to fit it in. Cause like I said, I wanted to have some sort of work bench. So I'm just figuring out how to fit that and then a bit down the side. And yeah, I'll, uh, Are you going to do a, uh, automatic standing lowering kind of thing or not? Do you know, I was thinking of just going for the, the standing, but then have like a high stool just in case. Are you standing, are you standing now? No, no, I'm sitting, but I'm thinking. You're in a seated chair, not on the stool. Not on a bar stool. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. I'm just a regular, regular level desk. But now I was thinking of doing it as a standing desk and then yeah, perhaps having a, perhaps having a stool in there or something like that. But, uh, yeah, I'm not sure. I'm not sure if I might live to regret that. I don't know. I do think it would be good for me to be standing a bit more, get a bit more, uh, you know, active for the rest of, for the whole day rather than sitting down all day. Cause I do feel it's like. When, when, when all that stuff started to be the rage three or four years ago, I decided to try the standing desk. So I've made one. I just got a coffee table and put it on top of my regular desk. So it just made everything about two feet taller. Yeah. It lasted about a week and I can't hang with this. Right. Right. To be honest, that's another reason for me not building the desk straight away because I've got this one. I'm just going to jack it up and just give it a go. And now I've got, you know what a varied, you know what a varied desk is? Uh, I don't know. Is that one of the automatic ones that it goes? Uh, it's, it goes, it's a, it's a, it's a two tiered thing that sits on top of a regular desk and it raises and lowers if you want. Oh, cool. Right. Right. And it's been loaded and so all that's on there is my monitor and the laptop. Yeah. And so I can raise it and lower it at will. I just never do. It's just so, you know, it's the stupidest thing to even own. So yeah, I don't know if I'm never going to do it. And I've looked at, you know, we have Home Depot here. It's a big lumber place, but they have these desks called Husky desks that are. Oh yes. Yeah. 72, four, five feet, six feet, four feet long and then they, but they automatically raise them. They have not, not motorized. You have to. Yeah. It's a crank. It's a crank to raise and lower or you can use a drill to raise it and lower it, but I don't know if I ever would. I don't know if I would ever do the, do the raised part. So anyway. Yeah. Yeah. What you commit to one or the other. You got to do it. I guess. I'm going to, I'm going to give it a test run and see and then yeah, I might, I might, I'll think better of it. I'll let you know. Yeah. And Paul's got a desk that you can push a button and raise and lower. Yeah. That's the, I, but do you do it? Do you raise and lower? I was just about to say that. I was going to say, yeah, maybe, maybe that might be too easy then for me to say now I'm just going to sit down. Yeah. I mean, I forget that my, in fact, I probably hadn't thought about that in two months that I could raise that desk. I just never do. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We'll see. I remember just, you know, different seating habits at desks and things like that. People were sitting on, you know, those big inflatable balls, the big round. Yep. And watching Leo LaPorte one day on his, I don't know if it was Mike weekly or Twitter or something like that when his ball burst. That's pretty funny. It was hilarious. It was just, yeah, I remember I didn't see that, but I, I was working with, I worked with a guy that had one of those, he swore by it, but yeah, yeah. I think I tried that out for a while too. In fact, I don't even know where that ball is now that you mentioned it. Yeah. Oh, hey Dale, popping in to say hello. Great to see you. The school next door to me was throwing out little colorful chairs. I got four, placed my iMac. That's a great idea. Yeah. As a riser. Little, little kiddies chairs as the riser for the monitor. Pretty cool. Yeah. And yeah, Paul says not, didn't raise it frequently, but it comes in handy at times. Hacking a cheap desk lift. That's a good look. Now, just quickly, where's Dina? She's asking, how do you change zoom recording speaker view to gallery view with recording? It's actually in the, rather than the setting, there's two sets of settings in zoom. There's either the settings that are in kind of like part of the app. So you click the little cog wheel and then it's in there. But this one is actually in the zoom settings in, in your account. So you go to your account and it's in there. Let me just see if I can find that. It's basically in the zoom web settings. There's loads of stuff in there. It's, I was on, I don't know if you know Lala. She's got the channel. She's in the, she did leader. She was one of the moderators there. She's got her, what's it called? Mommy crafts ink. She does a crafting channel. Okay. I don't know her, but that's, I don't know. But she had me on there this week talking about zoom. So not necessarily crafting, but she was a part of her vlogmas video. She's doing a series of interviews. So I was on there, but one of the, and I was giving like sort of zoom tips, one of the tips of mine, although I did expand on it to give some actual tips, one of them was just go through all the settings. That's what I do every time with any, any app and just go through and just read all the settings because it's amazing how many people say, you know, I say, oh, you can, you know, press spacebar to temporarily unmute. And they're like, wow, I never knew you could do that. But it's just, if you just read through all of the settings, it's like, check this. Do you want to be able to do that or not? So it's just always a good habit to get into. Your zoom class is more, is going to be geared towards people that host meetings probably, right? Because I can't do a lot of stuff as an attendee that you're talking about, things like that. Yeah. So it's, it's, it is everything. It's like how to, it's for people who host meetings, but then also people who attend meetings but want to look good, then they can get the sort of camera side of stuff. Well, okay. That's the difference. Right. Yeah. And then, and then like the settings so even as a, even as an attendee, things that you can change. So for example, like in gallery view, 25 people is the standard, but you can have up to 49, you know, shortcuts for flicking between screens, you can have a chat, saving the chat, all that sort of stuff. So there is stuff that will be useful for people who are like regularly attending meetings as well. But yeah, it is, it is primarily geared for people who are setting up those sorts of things as well. That's one thing about Zoom that bugs me. If I'm late to a meeting and I want to save the chat, it only shows the chat from when I joined. It doesn't show the whole chat. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. It's a bit annoying. And I had that before where like my connections dropped out and then I've gone back in before as well. And I did not know that any direct messages between two participants appear in that chat for everyone. It's, no, what it is, if you save it, your private messages will be in there. So if somebody says, hey, can you send me the chat and you've saved the chat and you send your version of it to them, then that will have all of your messages in, but it won't save it. It does have everybody's message, just mine. Yeah, it's just yours. So it's just to be, yeah, if you worry if someone says, oh, can you, can you send me a copy of the chat and you save it, it will have all of your private messages in there, then. Not necessarily the whole team. Yeah. Yeah. That makes it, I guess that makes sense. Uh-huh. Uh, the other one that's quite good on zoom is you can, like in recording, you can record separate audio tracks as well. So if you are doing like interviews and stuff like that on zoom, then you can save the separate audio if you want to edit that afterwards. So if you have five people on a chat, yeah, yeah, yeah. Or 15 or whatever you have. That's crazy. Yeah. And that is in, that's just in the regular settings where you've got like the video and stuff like that, that is in the, in the recording section, it will have, yeah, save, save. Is there stuff in zoom you can do with, without a paid account with the free account? Uh, yeah, loads of, loads of the stuff, actually, I mean, the limitations on the, the paid versus, versus the free, there's obviously the time limit, talking about removing the, the time limit. Um, uh, but yeah, I mean, a lot, lots of the functionality you can still do with just a free account. And the time one was always the big, big thing there, really. Uh, I can't talk and navigate at the same time, but I'm just going in. So it's in the zoom settings. Let me see if I can get, here we go. I'll share my screen just a moment. Now, which bit of my screen am I sharing? This is going to be totally random where this window is. It was such a polite way to tell me to shut the heck up. Yeah. No, it was, I'm hopeless at doing two things at, two things at once, but here you go. So, uh, Dina, I'm now in, I've gone into zoom and then I've gone into the settings. And then if you go in, uh, recording, you can see record active speaker with shared screen or record, uh, gallery view with, uh, shared screen. So those are, that's where the options is. Uh, the recording section of here rather than under the, the zoom recording itself. So, uh, so yeah, that's, uh, there's quite this, there is quite a lot to go, you know, with all the settings and stuff like that, there's lots of different settings in there, but there's, um, yeah, lots of it is, it's still available with, with the free version as well. Sound is screwed up on me. I'm still going to my headphones. I mean my speakers. I'll put it back. Our Gretchen says in, in 1984, we built a desk from two doors and, uh, two file cabinets. Yeah, that's a great one as well. Using the filing cabinets on either side as the, as the desk, you know, the, the stands for the desk as well. Uh, that is genius. A pre cut, uh, pass through for chords where the door knob would go. There you go. Makes it. It's already built. That's good. It's already done for me. Yeah. I might go and take another look at that actually. I did go and see obviously the big sheets of, what's it called the, um, uh, masonite. Is it called masonite or TF, TSP or M, MSF or M. No, it was just the, MD, MDF, MDF, um, uh, board for the top of that. Particle board. Is that mellamine? There's, um, uh, mellamines, I think sort of more plastic. Isn't it? I don't know. It's a, it's a top that's laminated to that particle board. Oh, right. Right. But I don't, I don't know what's it all there. Yeah. Yeah. I'll get you. So it's a mellamine covered particle board. Yeah. Yeah. Um, yeah, no, it was just, I went and saw the, uh, like the big sheets, the regular size sheets of wood that you get. And I just thought that would be quite a nice, uh, desk size. So what are they normally four by eight? Are you talking about plywood? Are you talking about something else? To get a, uh, a desktop that I could then add something on the top of. I'm still, I'm still thinking about the the granite thing, but I'll have to maybe think a little bit about it. Does it need to be smooth? Uh, for the, for the desk. Yeah. Uh, yeah, ideally, I guess not totally smooth, but, um, yeah, just any, cause I've, I've often thought about getting two by 12s or getting like three two by 12s and then strapping them on the table top that way. I, I haven't done that. I just was thinking it might be a neat, neat look, but yeah, yeah, that would actually, yeah, well that would work. But you would, it wouldn't, uh, I don't know. It's not smooth. You couldn't use the ride on the stuff like that. You have to have something underneath. Cause you, yeah, it would be an even texture. Oh, I'll get you. I see like sort of more like untreated timber. So that's still got the reclaim barnwood. Yeah. There's a, there's a lot of wood reclamation yards around here actually cause all the, all the traditional old houses are all timber, but they're obviously more to brick and concrete and things like that these days. So yeah, there's lots of give me an idea there. I'll have to go and go and check out. There's, there's like whole villages where that's the one thing that they do. They tend to have a thing in Thailand where you'll get one village that specializes in like one thing. So there's a village that's just got like reclamation yards in it. It's, it's got amazing. I'll have to go and have a look down there. Thanks. Every time I think of Thailand, I think of huts. I don't think of anything that's built in nice and concrete. I think of hutch, but I don't know. I don't know Thailand from anything. I've just know what I've seen in pictures. So, right, right. Yeah. Well, they've got like a really unique traditional style of house building with traditional Thai style houses. But yeah, nowadays it's all just sort of reinforced concrete and brick. Yeah. Yeah. Is there earthquakes or something there? Why would they build out of concrete? Uh, it's just, it gets around the termite problem. So they get a lot of termites here. Oh, I see. Okay. So yeah, it's, I suppose just Oh, and probably hurricanes. You get hurricanes? Not too much really. No, we do get some strong winds like down by the coast, but not, not massively. We did have a couple of big storms last year actually, but generally it's, it's getting too bad here for that. Interesting. Uh, and Jeff saying MDF on a frame and leather texture on top to make it look pretty. That's interesting. Like a leather, like a leather desk pad, but just the whole desk. Yeah. That's one thing about MDF. It'll sag if you don't put something underneath it. Oh yeah. Got to be, got to have a frame under it. I mean, if you do something very long, it'll very wide. It'll, it'll bend for sure over time. You admitted you'll tear that tear it up too. Oh no. That's a point. Yeah. Cause it does get pretty humid. And that's one thing about timeline. It's pretty humid. Yeah. Maybe, maybe I'll think again about that. Hello. To our friend in Malaysia. As someone from my area of the, the world, quite far away, but still it's at least the right side of the world for me. Same side of the planet. Same side of the planet. So it feels a lot closer. It's funny. And Dean, that's that's strange. She said, I don't have those settings in my zoom account. Hmm. Let me just quickly go back to that just to make sure we're in the same place. The other way. So I've gone into my, my zoom. Account. And then it is personal settings. So when you go into settings, the, there's different areas of it. And then you've got meeting, recording, and so on. And so it's in the recording section. So where is it missing? Is it missing from this list or is it that these settings here, you can't, can't access those in the same way. Interesting to know. Yeah, let me know. I'm trying to try and figure it out. And correction is saying we can find extra wide doors, four or five foot and around the edges. Yeah, I do want a nice, a nice deep desk. It's, I used to have one bigger than this, the one that I've got at the moment, but it's missing. Careful. You can't reach stuff on the other side of it. So. Yeah. Yeah. So it didn't want to be too much bigger. Obviously. I don't want it to be. Plus that room is only, if it's only 10 by 12, that door is going to take up a lot of space, a lot of floor space for you. Don't be careful. That's true. Yeah. I've sort of paced it all out or looked at, you know, looked at it on the floor. So it's quite good. Having tiles are fine because it's, they give you a nice little grid pattern to work with. But. How high are ceilings in that office? In the cottage. Must be, is it? Is it standard? Or is it really high? Seven, seven foot, something like that. So not really. Seven. Was that typical? Eight foot. Okay. Yeah. I think about eight foot, something like that. Okay. Whereas in here, it's a lot lower in the basement. And. It's missing from Dean as recording list. I see. And it's a free account. I don't know if that's something that, I didn't think that that was something that was specific to a paid account. I'll check up on that though. And I'll get back to your dinner. I'll, I'll try and figure out why that is. I don't think that that should be a. Paid account feature. Usually with those, you can sort of see which ones are and aren't, but I'll, I'll, I'll figure it out and I'll get back to you with it and answer about that. Ah, Gretchen saying you could do a resin, the top of reclaimed wood. I tell you what, I get mesmerized by some of those things. I've seen quite a few videos where people get like, they'll get like the, the sort of frame of where they want the table. And then they'll put like a, you know, like the living edge wood where you see the sort of bark and that as well. And then put that in, put a few of those in and then they pour the resin in between them. So that you end up with this thing that's, let me see if I can get a picture of these cause they do look pretty amazing. It's like flat varnish or something or urethane or something like that. Is that what you're talking about? Yeah. But they, you can make cool patterns with, with the, like the, the wood that you put in there. Right. So yeah, stuff like this. Sounds like a project. It does. So, what do you have on the floor in there? So like that. So where you've got like a, that's pretty cool. Wood on either side and then the resin down the middle. But then there's people who make like all sorts of different patterns. So it looks like like this one. This is pretty cool. I'm just getting more and more ideas today. Like that. So it looks kind of like, like a river, but then the top is completely smooth cause it does have the, the resin over the top of it as well. So it's continuous to the, to the touches to smooth all the way across. Oh, that's really nice. Look at that. Yeah. And so they just, you know, obviously got the really interesting bit of wood and then, yeah, I did the resin into, yeah, do you know what I'm, I might be selling myself on doing this. I don't know why I haven't thought of doing this because I've seen loads of videos about it. And it's like, when you see the making it and pouring the resin in that, it's quite, quite mesmerizing to watch, but yeah, you get the, the finish on it. This one is like completely polished. So you can see the sort of the shine on it. That's nice. Yeah. Maybe there, maybe that might be another project for the new year. Oh, this one's cool. Look at this. It looks like it's like a waterfall or something all the way down to the ground. Interesting. You're gonna be busy. That's cool. Yeah. I do have a habit of having ideas and then just loading myself up with probably more ideas than I realistically have time for. In the cottage, is your floor, do you have carpet or is it concrete? At the moment it's, it's tiled, but I'll get to get a big rug or something like that to help with the, help with the acoustics. Yeah, that'll help you a lot. Take a look at that. It's like translucent. You can see through the resin part. Oh, there you go. That's really cool. Yeah. Is that stuff reflective? Or is there a way to get it matte? Cause will that affect your lighting or not? I suppose it would. Wouldn't it? I suppose it would get a bit of, I don't know. But, yeah, I'll have to experiment. I suppose they technically, they do them gloss so that it's, so that you sort of see the effect of it and it will look shiny like that. I'll have to, it's a bit of another research project for me. You're sort of thinking about it anyway in a filming environment. Yeah, yeah. I'm getting distracted. I'm just looking at all pictures of desks. I'll, I'll close my browser. My mind's going off on tangents now. I should be focused. Well, I'm going to let you go. I'm going to punch out. It's five o'clock here almost. And so I'm going to roll home. Cool. Cool. Well, thanks for, you're rich and lovely talking to you again. And if I don't talk to you before Christmas, have a good one and keep all your kids are hugging and say how do your folks and I'll, we'll do, we'll do. I'll let, I'll try and jump on one of your streams next, the next few days as well. If you see one, I'm pretty much spent. I don't really, I can't think of anything else to do. I'll do one for you though. Anyway, we'll talk. All right. Take it easy. Cool. Great to see you rich. Bye bye. Have fun. Okey-dokey. The fun is folks. I am almost done myself. I've not got a huge amount today. Oh, hey, Chris. Just great to see you. Popping in. It's getting late there. And great for you to pop into Victor. Great to see you. And also, what's Jeff saying? Also room for the power management, perhaps a dozen or more sockets. Oh yeah. I've got to, I've got to sort out the, the wiring. The power in there. That's not an issue because, yeah, when, when I had that all wired in the beginning, I did sort of plan ahead. So it didn't have an air con in for ages, but we've got the wiring in there for that. And then I planned for, yeah, having, having a bit more power in there. So I've got to, got to do that. Although I hadn't actually planned for it to be an office. So of course the sockets are in there. Not enough sockets exactly where I need them. So I do have to do a bit more, a bit more wiring. And perhaps room behind the desk for lighting stands and to enable. Yeah. So what I was going to do with the desk was, I was going to put it on massive wheels. So you can get like big, big sort of like casters really, but industrial size casters, thinking ahead to it being a granite desk. And my monitor at the moment is on a, on a TV stand. So I've got a 43 inch Phillips monitor, but it's just mounted to a TV stand, like one of those wheeling TV stands. And that's what my camera is mounted to. Teleprompter, my overhead camera as well is mounted to that. So the whole of my monitor setup is actually freewheeling in any case. So I was going to have the desk slightly away from, slightly away from the wall so that I can actually just slide the whole monitor out. I haven't actually mounted my mini to the monitor stand, but I'm going to, going to do that as well. So then it will in effect just be an all in one, all in one unit. And yeah, then have the desk so that I can wheel it out as well. So definitely a great idea then. And yeah, the UPS are all mounted to it as well. That's what one of the other things I've got to do is I've got to set up a NAS. I haven't got one of those at the moment. It's one of those things that's been on my list of stuff to do. It's also good because I might do that while my parents are here as well because then I could just get two of them, set them all up and then my parents could take one back with them and then we could have this sort of syncing thing going. Because with the Synology, what you can do with those is if you've got one and someone else has got one, then you can have your stuff backing up to their drive and their stuff backing up to your drive. So then you've got the redundancy. You only get access to your own stuff, obviously. But it means that you've then got an offsite backup, which is one thing to always bear in mind with the backup is it's all very well having a Synology that can back up everything. But if it gets stolen with your computer, you've still lost all of your stuff. So having an offsite one, then it's definitely good. So I might end up doing that next month as well. I'll have to see. Another job for the jobs list. It's one of those jobs that's because I've got stuff in different places, it's just never really made the time to sit down and actually get it all set up. But yeah, perhaps that might be something for January. Oh, great. Dina's saying she's going live on YouTube soon. We'll have a good stream. Catch you later. Gretchen, the resin is two part self leveling ceiling and you can add the color to the resin. Do you know what, the more I'm thinking about this and the more of those pictures I'm looking at, I'm really thinking that's what I need to do for my desktop because I could get some I could get some really nice looking wood to use from it for it. So yeah, I think I might do that. I'm going to start thinking about it and go to the timber yard and see what nice bits of wood I can find. Just got to figure out, I'm sure I can get the resin from here, no problem. So yeah, that would be a nice little project. Oh, no problem, Chris. Michael, great to see you here as well. I was just saying earlier, I've still got to catch up on your videos. Did you get, by the way, because Rich was just on was asking about the the final cut thing with the terminal command that you have to put in. I just wondered if you'd had time to try out that keyboard maestro thing and if it worked crucially, because it was one of those things where I thought it would, but we'd have to have to see. So good to know if that worked or not. Love to see monitor standard. Do you know what, I don't think that I can do it the moment. I've kind of unplugged a load of things to use for the studio, so I'm not sure I can plug anything in. What I'll do is I'll do a studio video. When I move the monitor stand there, I'll do a proper thing of it and show exactly how I've got it set up. It's a regular TV stand, but then I've bolted some other things to it because they're really adjustable in any case. So you've got, you know, different bolt holes that you can move the TV mount up and down on it. So there's loads of sort of free holes when I've got it in the right position that I could bolt other stuff to. So I've bolted one of these movable arms. I've bolted one of those to it that's got my overhead camera on. I had a place where I could bolt my camera tripod ball head mount to it. So that's just sitting on top of it as well. So it's actually quite good to be able to sort of bolt things to. The visa mount that you have for the TV is the wide visa mount, but then it's got holes on the back that you could have a smaller visa mount. And what that means is that you can get the cages for the Mac Mini that's designed to bolt onto the back of a regular monitor. So I can actually mount that onto the back of the TV stand and then the Mac Mini would just sort of slot into it. So that's something else I've got to get to add into the setup. And then it would just all be sitting there. I'm also going to mount the UPS as well. So I've got a UPS which is pretty massive actually. Believe it or not, I know maybe this isn't a great idea famous last words, but my lights I've actually got plugged into the UPS as well. So they're only, they're not massively, you know, don't drain a lot of power or anything like that. And certainly, you know if I was just doing my regular work then I wouldn't have them on. But it does mean it has actually saved me, believe it or not. In fact last week's live stream the power went off and yet all the lights stayed on and the stream stayed up obviously crucially but yeah the power was off so the lights would have gone off and yet they stayed on. So it's quite a beefy UPS and it can hang on on the wall but that means it can also hang on anything else as well. So I may just actually hang that from the back of the stand. I'll do a proper video about that though I think so that can show you how it's all set up. And Michael, it worked but I had to add an enter between the commands. Ah right okay. Well as long as it's working that's great, great to know. I'm just wondering why I had to add an enter there. So I suppose it added the terminal command but didn't execute it perhaps. Right, I see. I wonder why it did have to do that. I'll figure it out myself. My mind's just this is what happens with me. I go off on tangents. My mind is now just wondering about that but I will figure it out but I'm glad it is working. Right well with that do you know what it's going to be quite a short live stream this week so it's only been an hour. Oh you know I will Gretchen. I'll definitely do a making of the desk. I'll take my camera as well to the timberyard places because it's quite amazing it's this little village and there's just a road going through the village but it's just one reclaimed timberyard after another with loads of really amazing wood that was used in houses so they have like timber cladding but then also like let me just find this little picture of this place actually because it is amazing and like really nice really kind of like antique wood doors. Let me have a quick look for the so I'll show you some pictures of Thai houses and the sort of traditional Thai houses and then all of this timber is just available as from these places you just come across to which one there we go right so these are like Thai houses this is a sort of traditional style of Thai house I suppose that's a really traditional one of shutter stock there's like a specific layout to them actually like a standard layout that they have but yeah so all of these things and like let me show you this one can we see on here I'll just drag this into here like that so you see this like this is a very typically Thai sort of wood paneled wall basically and it's almost sort of made in blocks and then put into place and then you get all this sort of wood like here this sort of artistically carved wood panels like in this is actually the back of a seat so it's got a built in balcony the front and this would be like a sort of little holiday cottage or something like that but yeah there's just some really nice wood there and you see what else and this is this style of roof you get this one up this style of roof is a very traditional Thai style roof so they have it's kind of like a curve to the roof and then actually a sort of double leveled roof and then they have this sort of decoration on the front of it as well so yeah lots of basically lots of reclaimed wood around the place so yeah I'll have to go and film the timber yards and then film the making of the desk definitely Gretchen and Michael this is what I had to enter and hit the enter key after oh yeah so that was the little script oh sorry the shell script and then you had to add the enter after that got it that's a very good point that's a very good point is the mic shielded yeah so yeah it would have to be low down I suppose wouldn't it so the mic would be I'll have to think about that that's a very good point thanks Michael for that that'd be terrible wouldn't it get it all set up with the UPS mounted there and then suddenly go to live stream and I'm getting loads of interference and stuff like that yes lots of lots of hardwoods and it's just it just looks so nice I do love sort of natural look I'm one extreme to the other so when I'm designing so one of my other past lives or current past life is that of an architect and so I do love either really ultra modern like completely clean minimalist with no clutter or anything like that glass buildings that sort of stuff but then at the other end I like entirely timber buildings that are you know just completely natural looking I'm a bit bit strange like that it's either one extreme or the other and yeah you can do loads of that with the route of these days yeah so well I think that with that I am going to wrap this up and probably I'll be heading to the hardware store soon because I've still got to buy although it's six o'clock here so it won't be open it won't be over for another couple of hours but I'll be down there to get the wood for the wood framing for my acoustic panel so you can expect to see a video about that in the in the next day or two and now my mind really we're in I don't know when I'll quite get to the the timber yard to go and have a look for the because it's that's somewhere else it's a bit fuck it's not the the regular hardware store it's an actual village that's a little drive away so but yeah I'll definitely get some some nice looking wood to make a table top with cool well that is all for me I've moved my button by the way the last two live streams because now with my stream deck I've spread out over two different screens on my stream deck actually I've got three but generally is two for ecum and so I use one for one for the live streams and one for my recordings and foolishly the button for my end lives or end my video was in the same place but on a different screen as the one that I used to start the live stream but that one just ends it immediately rather than the end button that I've got regularly I have to double press so the last couple of streams I've instead of expecting to double press it or intending to double press it the first press has actually ended it so that's why last week my stream ended a few seconds too early and he didn't bring his saw with him Jeff however I have got one that I will grant him if he wants so yeah right well I will see some of you in office hours tomorrow anyone who doesn't know what that is by the way buy me a coffee dot com slash dot rock and sign up there we meet every week on a Sunday morning for me Saturday evening for most people talking about all things live streaming and content creation and I really look forward to that something that anything else that comes up in the week may disrupt my videos and things like that but I never miss Doc's office hours so hopefully see some of you there as well alright that is how many times have I said that's it I'm going and then I've just not gone it's like you hang up no you hang up no you hang up I really am going now though thank you all for coming and hanging out and I will see you all again very soon have a wonderful day and see you later and then I forgot that I've got an outro on this one so I've still got to waffle on a little bit haven't I I'll leave a link to some of the great videos over on the right hand side for those watching on the replay have a wonderful day everyone bye bye