#oneaday Day 670: End of Another Week

Calories: 2143 – 80 from exercise = 2063/2040
Ring Fit? No
Water intake: OK

Slightly over on the calorie goal today but I was really hungry. I'm not going to guilt-trip myself about it, but I am going to be honest about it — and if I know I'm going to go over, I'm taking care to pick something that won't take me a lot over. 100 calories of sweet chilli rice crackers is better than 400 calories of Pop-Tarts, after all.

Anyway, it's Friday, traditionally the day when everyone flops down in a chair in their living room and makes that noise your Grandad used to make all the time. It hasn't been a super-exhausting or stressful week workwise, but with both Andie and I shaking off some form of non-specific "not feeling well", it's not been a super-pleasant one, either. Thankfully Andie seems to be over it now and I seem to be following her pattern a couple of days at most behind her, so I'm hoping I'll feel a bit more fresh over the weekend.

With another "lockdown" looking imminent, Andie is paying her mother a visit this weekend, leaving me free to make some videos. Good job, too, since after tomorrow's Atari A to Z Flashback I'm out of stockpiled episodes. I might take it relatively easy and just make episodes for a single week rather than the two at a time I normally do; next weekend marks the beginning of a full week off for me, and I'm going to spend a good chunk of it recording and getting ahead of schedule on videos.

It remains painfully slow progress on videos, but I am pleased with what I'm achieving, and I seem to be getting a lot more new viewers and commenters recently than I have done in the past. I've done some minor rebranding on my channel to make it a bit clearer what I do, mostly consisting of the new trailer you may have already seen (watch it at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNpsaRjXcHg if you haven't) and the new channel art you can see in all its glory here:

This new art, I think, sums up what I'm all about, since it incorporates all the things that are important to both me and my channel. We've got the various games I've covered in the regular series in the background, we've got The MoeGamer Podcast there, and we've got mascot Midori reppin' as usual. If you're wondering about the layout, the text is positioned so that it appears nicely in the "banner" form of the channel art on PC, mobile and tablet, and the broader image will be seen if anyone visits my channel on a Smart TV, if indeed anyone ever does that rather than going via another Internet-connected device. (I know I've certainly never used the "apps" on my TV, but then I do have my PC hooked up to it, so there's no point.)

Anyway. Hope you've had a good week and you have a pleasant weekend ahead of you. I'm going to chill out with some Fuel on PS3, I think; I'm enjoying that game a lot, and with its ridiculous scale I can see it becoming a go-to chill-out game for me at some point. Doubtless a short;Play video on the subject will follow soon, so watch out for that!