 Hey everybody, this is Brian and welcome back. I have not done a video in Wow, I don't even remember last time I did a video. I know it's been at least five six months Maybe last but my memory is kind of faded because it's been so long. Oh my gosh, things have just been so busy I have not had a chance to even breathe So what have I been working on? I'm glad you asked I have been working my tail off at work I I changed jobs. Not only did I change jobs. I changed careers um I was a network admin. I'm sorry a server administrator. They call him a network administrator But I was a server administrator and I don't even touch servers anymore. I'm now management I manage over a group of people that do Telcom work routers switches. I also manage another group of people that do uh, unix systems backups things like that Um, so I was contractually obligated to get a Cisco certified network administrator or a CCNA within six months So I was just study study study for Months on end. I did get my CCNA, but I've been So busy if you go to void realms.com you can see that I have not even had a chance to put it in my certification list I don't think it's on my resume right now I should probably update my resume. Anyways, um So yes, I have been working my tail off Um, I've really been soul searching. I miss programming so much. I love dotnet and cute Um, I have to admit I've been loving cute a heck of a lot more than dotnet lately especially now that I've seen some of the future visions of microsoft with the abomination that's going to be windows 8 and They're taking away all the free tools. There'll be no more express versions Boo microsoft bad microsoft So, I don't know. Um, I'll probably I don't know. I think I'm going to focus more on cute because I really love the language But I also want to dive a little bit more into java and non microsoft technologies Maybe some linux tutorials are in order um, also, uh, yeah I was in a relationship and it ended badly um It's one of those awkward things. I'm not going to use youtube as therapy I know some people do I just I don't feel the need to really talk about it But I did want to kind of bring it up. So, you know, I've been busy We're trying to be friends a lot of people say that dude that never works being friends Just never works cut your losses and run, but we're going to try and be friends Don't know if it'll work, but I'm willing to give it a shot And this little jump for joy is not about the relationship being over. It's about my daughter. She graduated high school So it was a really big push on her part and mine as well to get her through high school and now She's going to be starting college in about a month Which is part of the reason why I took the management role simply because I need money to put her through college Yeah, that's If you've ever been through a breakup or a job change or college, where's my little job change Um, you know exactly how stressful that can be So all of that's just been unwieldy and then my house. Oh My goodness. Holy home repairs batman. I mean Wow, I put this little graphic up because it kind of represents my house I've been doing electrical. I've been doing structural. I've been doing accessibility. I've been doing extermination and rodent I've been doing I did plumbing yesterday Um heating is uh next on my list. I think the only thing I haven't done is rip the house down and rebuild it from the ground up so Wow, I think I have touched a skill saw more than I've touched a keyboard in the last six months It's just been ridiculous, but Knock on wood. I don't want to jinx that. I think most of my home repairs are done. So maybe I can get back and do more videos Um, I put this little page in here. This is actually archive.org Um, this is something I've been kind of searching for I'm looking for a way of uploading things Namely my videos to something other than youtube youtube is awesome. It's great, but I get a lot of feedback saying brian I'm sorry. I live in a country where either a youtube is banned or the bandwidth to youtube is so horrible Is there any way you can put it on like a bit torrent or Uh network news or something that'll allow for you know broken downloads to resume well I've been searching high and low and archive.org is aiming to be the library of the internet and I've talked with them a couple times and they said yeah, you can upload videos and they will host them and they will even Make bit torrents and seed them So i'm really looking for something like that. I might do when I get the time a couple trial runs with archive.org just to see how that works And which brings us full circle to the reason why you're probably watching this is my youtube channel It has been horribly neglected for a long time and I have to apologize But if you look at these numbers Man, I think the last time I looked at this I had 2,000 subscribers. So this is just Quadrupled in my subscription base. It's just ridiculous And video views over a million views. Look at that. Wow 1 million views If I hit a dollar for every one of those views You wouldn't be watching this video right now because I'd be on a beach somewhere just relaxing And I'm about as white and nerdy as they come. So I think I need a lot of sunblock but This kind of brings up a good point is out of these 1 million views Probably a quarter of these have sent me a message of some kind through some media whether it be email or youtube or facebook or I even had one guy. I don't know how he did it looked at my personal cell phone number. I'm like, whoa, dude, seriously but um There's so much feedback that I don't think I could possibly in a lifetime respond to all of it So if you're one of those users that's You know sent me a message and feel like you're totally just getting blown off I'm sorry. There's just no way I can keep up with the feedback I'm really hoping that you know some of the more advanced users that have been watching these videos Kind of chime in and start, you know helping you guys out. I just they simply There's no way I can keep up with it Um, I love getting feedback. I love reading what you guys tell me. I mean, even if it's something I totally screwed up on Um, I mean, that's how you learn. It's a community and you give feedback But I just I cannot get through all this feedback. I wish I could I wish I could just get paid to sit here and Do this all day, but unfortunately I have obligations so um I guess that being said if you're one of those people that have messaged me and have gotten a response feel very very fortunate because There's a lot of people out there saying Brian where yeah, bro But what I wanted to do is kind of address where I want to go in the future here. Um With cute and dot net Like I said, I actually did I say it? I don't know. Um, I really kind of want to focus on cute and maybe java Not so much dot net anymore Although I will probably do like a full Vbc sharp from you know inception all the way up to like web and desktop programming I just have to find the time But I think the core of our tutorials are going to be focused more on cute and then more on java Just because that's where my interest is headed So anyways, um, this is brian. That's a picture of me. This handsome young fellow Um, you see I'm not smiling because that's all the home repair that I have been working on and I have no hair because of it So thank you for watching. I look forward to doing videos And I really I look forward to your feedback as much as I hate to say it chances are I may never get to it, but um Keep in touch. Let me know how you guys are doing and just help each other out man. Seriously. That's what we're here for