#oneaday Day 717: Snap

My microphone stand broke today. It had been looking like it was going to go for a while, but when I went to record some stuff earlier, it broke completely. I've ordered a new one that will be here tomorrow, but that's still a bummer — it had been a loyal friend for the last couple of years, but it had also seen some fairly heavy use and wasn't very expensive, so I'm not surprised it decided to give up the ghost eventually.

With this in mind, a few upcoming videos will have slightly different-quality audio due to me using the tie clip mic I normally use for my intro videos for the gameplay. This shouldn't be a huge issue, but I just thought I'd let you know! The mic that went in the stand itself is fine (aside from its USB port being loose, meaning I have to mount it upside down for the cable to stay in) so as soon as I get the new stand I'll be back to normal, but a couple of upcoming Evercade A to Z and Atari A to Z Flashback episodes will have the different audio. (I don't want to say "worse" because I've always been pleasantly surprised at the audio quality of that little tie clip mic!)

Anyway, situations like this are why I'm especially grateful for your kind donations. If you were curious, the ad experiment has been reasonably successful, too; while I certainly wouldn't describe what I've made in the last couple of weeks as a "fortune" by any means, in the long term if traffic stays the way it is, ad income could potentially pay for things like hosting or other subscriptions needed to keep things ticking along. So that's good; hopefully the ads haven't been too intrusive for any of you, and as I said when I put them in, please let me know if you happen to see anything inappropriate or that gets in the way.

Thursday tomorrow, and I'm crossing my fingers that's the day the two Lynx cartridges for the Evercade arrive! They're on the way, so hopefully tomorrow will be the day — I'm just in the mood to revisit some of those classics.

Have a pleasant evening!