Sympathy for the Tanned

Before this episode of Daily ish, I just need to mention and, just draw your attention to if you're able to help and support and and just be aware, I guess, of, an accident that happened in Saskatchewan here where I live, in the province. It's, just little ways outside of the city that I live, bus that was carrying a hockey team full of players in the junior league. They'd be between 18 to 25, somewhere in there in age. And 15 of the it was it was an accident. And and 15 of the 15 of the folks on the bus, the 28 people on the bus were were killed, and a bunch of folks are in hospital.

So a mix mostly players, hockey players, but also, you know, a coach, their head coach, and another coach, and statistician and radio announcer for the team. And, just, yeah, horrific accident. And, so the province is obviously rallying around this team and it's incredibly, it's gone around the world. Basically, there's a GoFundMe campaign that started with, you know, modest goals of, I forget what it was originally, a few $100,000 or something like that. And, it's now up over, as of this recording anyways, $7,000,000, which has been just incredible.

And, but obviously, there's a lot of people, a lot of families who are affected by it. And, so that money gets dispersed and will doesn't erase obviously what happened or make it any better in the in the short term, but will help, with ongoing expenses and and not having to worry about paying for funerals and and all the just the yuck that's ahead for these families. So if you can, feel free to check out the GoFundMe campaign. And on behalf of in in as weird a way as it is, I don't have any direct connection to the families that I'm aware of or or friends. There's, you know, friends of friends of friends or whatever who know people maybe a little bit connected, but it's, still it's something that's, obviously captured the hearts and minds of of people here in Saskatchewan and, like I said, around the world.

So appreciate your support if you do, and, just also your thoughts and prayers for all those affected. Alright. On with the episode. Hello. Welcome to Daily(ish) for Tuesday, April 10.

It is currently minus eight, feels like minus 14 Celsius. I am definitely not in Mexico anymore, and, I don't expect to have your sympathy, but, I'm still sad and and cold. So that's just the way it is. This episode of Daily(ish) is brought to you by, of course, Patreon supporters possibly like you. Patreon, patreon.com/ichris.

It's where you can check out my, the way you can support me a little more directly on Patreon, podcasting, all that kind of stuff that I'm doing. So, yeah, it's I I have a visions of doing a bit more of a ongoing recap and discussions of Mexico and and the trip and all that kind of stuff, but I know that if I just wait for something to arrive to be ready for that, I will never record an episode. And I'm really trying, as I mentioned before I left, trying to get onto a I'm holding you can hear it, a bit of a schedule, which I'm already a day behind, which I I kinda knew was gonna happen coming back and being overloaded with ketchup work. Not not literal ketchup. Nobody at Good Stuff.

And the good stuff, Discord needs to have a catch up argument again. But, catching up on work that, just got pushed to the side in the in the last week or so when I was new, was heading home and, I was hoping to be able to get to it when I get back. So so far so good. Digging out from under the pile and luckily didn't have to dig too much snow when we returned. Actually, none none of it really, but it's cold.

Colder. And, and it's it's one of those things where, I don't know, maybe when you go on vacation, you go and you go for a week or you go for two weeks or you go for a month like we did or six weeks or whatever. And when when you're done, you're, like, ready to come home. And I've felt that in some places when I've been away. And but generally, it's like if I'm away by myself or whatever, then I kind of have that feeling of, like, I'm ready to go back.

But when, like, my whole family was down there, obviously, and then my extended family, my sisters and kids, and parents, and also, parents in laws in law were were down there. And so it starts to feel like this is that's like a normal almost, and why don't we just stay here where it's warm? So I wasn't necessarily ready to come home, but I know even talking with our kids of our kids, we're kinda like, I'm ready to go back to normal life because it is you know, you're kinda moving around a lot. You're in sort of this weird holiday mode, but then we're doing a bit of schoolwork at the as well and living out of a suitcase and all that kind of stuff, which, if we did it more often, like it's two every it was two and half years ago that we last did this, something like this anyways. And, I think if we did it more often, think our kids would be get used to that idea.

But it's it is just a weird kind of stress that they don't really know how to verbalize or or talk through. And, and they do I think at their core, they kind of like the routine of of they might not like going to school every day, but they do like that routine of knowing what's coming up. And it was a month of, like, lots of good fun stuff, but every couple days, things changing, going here, going there, visiting something else, and and kinda just needing a bit of, like, normalcy for a while, I think was definitely on the the plate for our our kids. And so now that, we're back and it's ideally, you take time to, like, reflect and think and how to go and review and all that kind of stuff. But as life doesn't just give you a pause button, especially coming back from holidays like we did of sorts.

I say of sorts because we I was working there. It wasn't like a a true break from work for me. And in a lot of ways, was more stressful because the computer I was using didn't work out well is isn't working out well. It's, you know, aging and not very fast anymore and had trackpad issues and all kinds of stuff. And the iPad root just was a big kind of fail actually, to be honest.

And, that was stressful in its own way just because I was feeling, like, stupid for having even gone down that road, with spending the money and time and software and stuff like that. It's it can certainly work, and I don't, this isn't like throwing out the iPad as an idea, but just for what I do and how I work, it definitely wasn't, the best and most efficient way of getting things done, especially when I was gonna be in a situation where I wanted to get it done quickly so that I could go, you know, take my kids to the pool or go for a walk on the beach or whatever with the family and stuff like that. And instead I ended up spending a lot more time on my old laptop, which is, yeah, not not super fast awesome, especially when there's slow Internet too. All things that are, like, sucky to complain about when it's 25 degrees outside and you can go swim in the pool or whatever. But just the reality of of work there was, very quite frustrating, way more frustrating than I thought it was gonna be actually.

And that bled into the lack of recording more podcasts, to be honest, because I was already in front of the computer for three to four hours every day plus, trying to get work done and then to then tack on a recording of a podcast that then would take hours to upload at times, just wasn't in the cards, I didn't really want to take that extra time away from my kids, when this was like sort of a once in a lifetime opportunity thing down there. So that's why there was basically two episodes of the podcast that I released the Patreon supporters directly initially and then, just now have published publicly. And so nothing to do with technical reasons on on mics and audio side of things. The the ATR 2,100 USB mic that I picked up for, like, $70 worked great down there. Recorded well into the iPad or into the computer.

All that kind of stuff worked well. But, yeah, just timing of of the coordinating timing of family and work and all that kind of stuff in an environment where you're trying like, there's sort of like this one half of your brain is in in vacation mode and the other half is stuck in work mode and somewhere in there is the brain part for family and and stuff like that. So I think I've said stuff like that a lot in this episode, so that probably is a good sign to stop recording this episode and continue on. I wanna talk about stuff like more stuff. Stuff like, driving in Mexico and living in Mexico and the food and, things like that.

So, hopefully, that's interesting to you, and I'll try and sort of dribble that out over the next little while as I recap and use Daily(ish) as a way of, like, sort of reviewing what the trip was like and how it worked and what didn't work and and stuff like that. There you That's obviously an audio tick I need to get rid of. Hope you have a great day, and spring is sprunging wherever you happen to be in the world for you. And it seems like maybe by this weekend, this next weekend here, it will actually start to melt more and we won't see snow as much and be able to go outside without tokes and mitts. So I hope that's the case for you already.

And if not, it hope it is soon. And, have a great day. Thanks for listening. Bye.