#oneaday Day 631: Busy Holiday!

Bank holiday today, so I had a day off from the day job. Part of my day was taken up with ferrying the wife and her friends to the station ahead of their Final Fantasy XIV Free Company trip to Brighton, so I didn't get it entirely to myself, but I did manage to get a bunch of stuff recorded, including the next two weeks' worth of Atari A to Z videos, and one episode of short;Play. That leaves one episode of short;Play and two episodes of Final Fantasy Marathon to polish off by the end of the week (ideally, anyway) — and since I have Thursday and Friday off, that shouldn't be too much of a problem.

I must confess I'm actually considering retiring the Final Fantasy Marathon series. Although I feel like the complete marathon is a noble goal that I do want to accomplish, at the same time it's also the most time-consuming and tiring of all the video series that I do right now, at the current rate I'm going it's going to take literally years, and right now I'm not enjoying it all that much. I've always found Final Fantasy III a bit of a drag anyway, and at the moment I'm feeling more "obliged" to play it than that I "want" to play it. This is obviously a bit of a problem.

The other thing is that the series hasn't achieved what I hoped it would: I was hoping that recognisable names like the Final Fantasy games would bring more people to the channel, and then they'd discover the other stuff I do, but in practice it's actually ended up being the other way around — people come to my channel for the interesting and weird stuff, particularly the Atari games. I guess that makes sense; there are almost certainly thousands of Final Fantasy videos out there, however much I might put my own twist on them with stuff like my silly voice acting and whatnot, whereas explorations of Atari games are rarer by virtue of the fact that Atari systems (2600 aside) were always less popular than the machines that "won" their respective generations.

In other words, people are coming to my channel for something unique, rather than being attracted by something they could (in theory) see somewhere else. So with that in mind, it's starting to feel a bit like a waste of time and energy to continue with the Final Fantasy videos, when they take up so much time and energy in my recording sessions. I feel like I'd rather spend that being able to get further ahead of schedule, or doing some more ambitious short;Play episodes like the one I recorded earlier tonight.

I don't know. I'll mull it over throughout the week and decide soon. I know there are a couple of regular viewers of the Final Fantasy videos — and when I get relatively few views like I do, those individuals can be precious — but for the sake of my own energy levels it's something I definitely need to ponder. I'd much rather take the time to be doing stuff that I'm truly enthusiastic about than stuff that is starting to feel like a bit of a drag.

Anyway! That aside, hope you've had a pleasant Monday. Back to the day job for a couple of days for me tomorrow, then Thursday and Friday off to do things I want to do. Can't wait. For now, sleep (and possibly Nurse Love Syndrome) is calling.