 So I finally did it guys. I've been talking for a few months that I needed to find a proper office space somewhere where I could record my videos, you know, a proper YouTube studio that wasn't in the house because I don't like working at home even though this is my full-time job. I like having separation. I like, you know, being able to go to the office to go to work and then come home and be at home and I talked about this I think August of last year. I mentioned it on a live stream that hey I talked to a realtor and was looking for some office space, you know, some kind of office lease and Hurricane Laura happened in August of last year and that caused some problems because some of the places that we were looking at me in the realtor and that I was thinking about possibly renting those buildings were destroyed by the hurricane or at least they were severely damaged by the hurricane. So I couldn't do anything with those and then, you know, so and then of course there was damage to the house and you know, I spent eight days without power and lost all my food and there was a lot of stuff I needed to spend money on other than renting an office after the hurricane. So a month, two months went by, I think about six weeks went by and I contacted the realtor again. I was like, hey, it's been a little time. I said, I'm ready to start searching for something again. You know, can you help me find something? And then shortly after that we had Hurricane Delta which wasn't nearly as bad as Hurricane Laura, but that put the search on hold because again this town had some damage, a lot of properties had, you know, minor damage compared to the previous hurricane. But I was like, you know what, we'll just scrap the whole idea for this year because at that point it was October. So I was like, you know what, when 2021 rolls around, we'll start looking again. And then we had that severe ice storm, you know, where the whole town was shut down for over a week. It was one of the worst ice storms I think we've ever had in this part of the country. You know, I live in Louisiana and we're not used to snow and ice and, you know, we had a couple inches of ice coating everything and I couldn't actually get my car out of my driveway for about eight days after that ice storm. So a lot of damage from that and, you know, with all these kind of unusual natural disasters that had happened in the last few months, you know, I kind of, you know, put the, hey, I'm searching for an office space. I put that on the back burner for a little while. But the other day I was like, you know what, it's been a little while. Let's just go get it done. So I looked around a little bit and I found this office here. It's a part of a larger suite of offices that there's several, you know, small business owners. And, you know, I've got, I think there's 10 suites in this particular building, but not all of the suites are occupied at the moment. Probably half the space is occupied and it's kind of quiet. There's nothing really going on here and I kind of like it. I like the neighborhood it's in too. So everything's secure, security system in place and everything, real, real nice place. And I got it at a pretty affordable price because I'm just kind of worried, you know, looking around at some of the places around town. You know, there's a lot of office space available. A lot of people are leasing office space, but some of it is outrageously priced. And I didn't understand it because there's so much empty office space around right now. You know, a lot of people are still out of work or just not wanting to work because of the pandemic. And, you know, you would think some of the prices would come down on some of this stuff, but no, but I've had a pretty good deal on this. This is just a one-room office, but it's a pretty good size office. It's about 15 by 12, you know, a little under 200 square feet, which is plenty for me. Let me walk you around here, pick up my camera here. So obviously I get a window so I could use some natural light, but looking back around this way, you guys saw that desk right there behind me is a rather large desk, about three foot deep. And you know, about six foot wide, that's a good size desk. It'll be easy to mount a boom arms for microphones and cameras. And of course, along that back wall is a similar size desk, about six foot wide again itself. That one's only two foot deep. So really nice furniture in here. And I actually asked the guy that owns this building, I wanted an unfurnished office because I have furniture. But when I saw the furniture in here, it looked pretty good. And I said, well, you know, I've got my own furniture, so I don't really need it. He's like, well, I don't really want to have to move this furniture to another office, you know, for storage. And he's like, can you use it? And I said, yeah, I mean, that's nice stuff, I can use it. So he said, you know what, I'll give you this office furnished for the unfurnished price. So yeah, the two nice desk. And then of course, I've got this drawer here. And we had a bookcase that was also in here, which I've already stored some of my stuff. I actually just got the key to this office today. I've been working on this for about a week, getting in here, getting shown the office and then, you know, working with the guy, getting a key, security code and everything. So I'm just now getting in here is one of the reasons I haven't made much content here this week. Now I made a couple of videos, couple of short videos that weren't really like tutorial videos, nothing I had to put a ton of effort in because I was kind of working on this because this needed to get done. And I'm pretty excited about it because now it's a real job, right? It's not a real job when you work at home. That's one of the things I've always learned. And I've worked at home, not just doing this, but I've, you know, had jobs before where I was pretty much self employed. I've been doing, you know, web dev stuff years ago, not anytime recently. I've had jobs where, you know, when you're at home, it's not a job because there's so many distractions. Friends and family do not think it's a real job. So they think they can interrupt you anytime, you know, because you're just at home. You're not really working. Also, yourself, you know, for me, myself, I have a hard time sometimes taking it seriously because I'm at home and you know, I'm working, nobody, when you're at work, you never feel like working, but you have no choice. Well, for me, I did have a choice because I could just not work today. I could watch some Netflix, go to the kitchen and make a sandwich. I could do this and do that. And it's like, no, now I'm going to have, I'm going to have a set schedule. I'm going to come up here, do what needs to be done. I think I'll get a lot more done now. And this is just better. Having a little bit of a bigger spot to record into will be nice because of all the equipment that I have, that room that I've been recording in in my house. It's a very small room. You guys typically only saw about half of it in the camera angle, but it's not much bigger than what you guys saw. It was like a 10 foot by 10 foot room. And it wasn't an empty room. There's a shelf in it. There's a dresser in it. So it's, there was stuff in it that wasn't related to the YouTube channel, also in the room, where this room, nothing's going to be in this room other than what I need to do this work. So be quite a bit more room to work in. Also probably won't be nearly as high. You know, one of the problems I had with recording in that small room, you got, you know, the computers running, they put off a lot of heat. The monitors, I had three monitors, that puts off a lot of heat. And then you've got the lighting, you know, I've got all kinds of various lighting that I sometimes use. I've got LED lights, of course, the umbrella light back there. I've actually got two of those, three umbrella lights, similar to that one. The LED light with the barn doors, I've got two of those. I've got more lights than I need, but they come in various shapes and sizes to get different height stands too. So again, you know, a lot of equipment that puts off heat and recording in a small room is quite bad, especially in Louisiana, especially in the summer. And that's one of the reasons why I really wanted to get on the ball and get this office thing done is because it's starting to get warm now in a couple of months, it's going to get very warm. You know, we're talking 100 degree temperatures every day, you know, 100 degree Fahrenheit for those of you not in the U.S. And that's warm, that's very warm. And in that room I'm recording in, you know, the central air and heat in the house, you know, the central air will keep the house, I'll put it on 72 degrees, but I swear it'll be over 80 degrees in that room I'm recording just because of all the heat, all the equipment's putting in. And, you know, it's draining, it's draining on your energy that makes you angry, put you in a bad mood when you're working in a unpleasant environment, let's say. So I'm really happy to be in here. Of course, you know, there's going to be some expenses with this. I'm pretty happy with the rates that I'm paying for the office itself, but now I do have to buy some more equipment because some of the stuff that I was using at home, I can't just move everything from home to here. For example, my computer, the desktop I have, the only computer I have, I mean, I have these old laptops, they're very old, kind of crappy laptops, they don't do much, they just use laptops, I bought to test Linux distros, you know, I install random Linux distros on them just to test out distros. But, you know, I'm going to need to buy a computer because I'm going to need that work station here. So then I'm going to need something at home, unless I'm just not going to have a computer at home, I guess I could buy a laptop. The problem right now is computer prices are through the roof because of, I guess, the pandemic. It's crazy. Even kind of mediocre computers that would have cost me, I don't know, seven, eight hundred bucks a couple of years ago or going for like fifteen, sixteen hundred dollars now. It's ridiculous. And being a multi-monitor user, any computer I buy is going to have to have a proper graphics card in it that can support three monitors. And, you know, any halfway decent graphics card, even something relatively mid-range like an NVIDIA 2060, for example, or I guess now they're on the 30, 3060, you know, which, you know, a couple of years ago, you wouldn't think like the 2060, I pay, I don't know, like four hundred, five hundred bucks for the thing, maybe, but now people are wanting seven, eight hundred bucks for these cars. It's ridiculous. And these, they're not that great. I guess it's not a fantastic video card. It's just ridiculous. I'm going to have to spend some money because I'm going to definitely need another computer to replace the one at the house. I'm going to have to buy a computer chair. I've got one that was provided with this office. I've got one at my house. I may not have to buy another chair. I'd like two chairs though because we've got two desks. And, you know, we might occasionally have people in the office here. I wouldn't mind occasionally having clients. That's another thing. When you have your own office, you know, somebody, like if I wanted to kind of do some side gigs, like helping other people make YouTube videos or do a podcast, certainly with the audio equipment, you know, I have in the microphones and everything. If somebody wanted to do a podcast, you know, like a one-off kind of thing, it's like, yeah, come to the office. We'll record something. And I could edit it, edit the audio form and everything. You can't do that when you're working out of your house. You're not going to have clients come to your house, right? This separation of home and office, right? That's another reason. Or, you know, I wanted to interview somebody and it was somebody locally or maybe not locally. Maybe they're just coming through this part of the world wanting to stop by. You know, I could have them here where I wouldn't knock them at my house. Not somebody I didn't really know. So, I'm going to have to buy a little equipment. Most of it's, you know, just stuff that's not too expensive. I may have to buy some mounting equipment, boom arms, some cables. You know, I probably need to spend some time soundproofing this room because right now there's not much in it. Just got some thin carpet here on the floor. It's the office building is, you know, that cheap thin carpet. You know, maybe put a little more, maybe a big rug somewhere and maybe do some phone panels or something on some of the walls because right now there's an echo. You guys can probably hear it even on the cell phone camera here. You'll definitely hear it when I'm recording on a proper mic and it's way too boomy in this room right now. So, I've got to work on that, that window over there that I showed you earlier doesn't have any kind of curtains on it right now. That would also help with the sound. Any kind of fabric hanging off the wall will kind of help absorb some of that sound. And then of course, I need to do some kind of decorating, right? I mean, you're going to have a proper recording studio. It needs to look good. You know, we need to have some nice lighting, maybe some nice wall art or something. You know, it needs to be a warm inviting place when I'm recording, you know, the backdrop and everything looks good. And now that I've got, you know, a bigger room and the entire room to work with, that's cool. I mean, it's this room, it's large enough. I could even, if I wanted to take one of the four walls, I could even green screen one of the four walls, either mount, you know, something to roll out of green screening or hell, I could paint one of the walls, you know, the proper shade of green to do a green screen if I wanted to do that kind of recording. That's another thing. Having a bigger spot, the place I was recording in before that room, I could only record sitting in that chair at that desk. That was all I could do. And you can only, you're limited in the types of videos. I'd like to do more product reviews, but I didn't have any kind of table space where I could get an overhead camera. Now I've got these two large desks, you know, one of them, could be for doing product reviews. And I've got some stuff that I've purchased here recently that I would like to review on camera and we may do that once we get properly situated here. Anyway, it'll probably be at least a week and probably two weeks before I'm situated in here, where I'm actually going to be recording regular content here. Right now, it's just the office as is other than I dropped off, you know, some of my equipment and put it on that bookshelf and some of the lighting stands and things like that. Some of the things I didn't necessarily need at home to record because I still got my setup at home. This is just extra stuff that I didn't need there to do my videos. But so yeah, so I'm pretty happy about this and I'm looking forward to the future. I hope you guys are too because I think we'll be able to do some neat stuff here. Hopefully, and I think it will, I think the office will pay for itself. I think renting this spot was a good move. You guys want to help out, of course, you know, I always accept help from you guys. You guys know you can support me through things like Patreon. You want to make a one-time donation through PayPal that works too. You can always donate LBC's library credits over on Odyssey if you watch my content on Odyssey. And other than that, I think that's all I've got for today. Like I said, I just got the keys to this thing today and just put a few things in here. This is going to occupy a lot of my time over the next couple of weeks because again, I'm going to have to purchase some equipment, wait for some stuff to get in. It'll be probably a week or two before I get things situated enough to where I could actually make one of my proper videos here, not one of these cell phone boomerents. All right, guys. Peace.