Grim, love the idea of a group of yahoos working together on developing a course. Seeing as how two of your three Ortho Lent sacrifices have already fallen by the wayside, I wanted to write to encourage you to hang tough on the third. Vidya games have consumed a not inconsequential portion of my lifetime attention. I finally gave them up a couple years ago as I approached 50. I now regard them as I imagine an AA member with a 5yr chip regards a glass of whiskey. They were a huge part of my life. The relationships I had there felt real. I still remember and dream about some of the maps as if they were/are real places. The desire to play ever newer games led to an interest in building and upgrading ever more powerful computers, an interest which benefited me tremendously in my professional life. That all seems/seemed positive at the time, but I’m embarrassed now when I think about all the thousands of hours of my attention that were consumed by the pursuit of games. Hours that would have been more profitably spent on my wife and kids, or my own religious education. I have three sons. They are all gamers. We even used to play together sometimes. They try to get me back online, but I really do have to treat it like an addiction. I know I would fall right back in head first. I judge no one, because I know I’m the worst. Maybe it’s not that big of a deal in your life. Take this Lent period to think about it and be honest with yourself. You are doing important, if not yet profitable work on your YT channel. Maybe spend more time and attention there. Speaking of, I’ve finally overcome my distaste for Google/YT and tried to become a channel member or yours, but I couldn’t figure it out. Paul’s channel has a big “Join” button right on the channel home page. Yours just has a “Store” button. What am I missing?
Grim, love the idea of a group of yahoos working together on developing a course. Seeing as how two of your three Ortho Lent sacrifices have already fallen by the wayside, I wanted to write to encourage you to hang tough on the third. Vidya games have consumed a not inconsequential portion of my lifetime attention. I finally gave them up a couple years ago as I approached 50. I now regard them as I imagine an AA member with a 5yr chip regards a glass of whiskey. They were a huge part of my life. The relationships I had there felt real. I still remember and dream about some of the maps as if they were/are real places. The desire to play ever newer games led to an interest in building and upgrading ever more powerful computers, an interest which benefited me tremendously in my professional life. That all seems/seemed positive at the time, but I’m embarrassed now when I think about all the thousands of hours of my attention that were consumed by the pursuit of games. Hours that would have been more profitably spent on my wife and kids, or my own religious education. I have three sons. They are all gamers. We even used to play together sometimes. They try to get me back online, but I really do have to treat it like an addiction. I know I would fall right back in head first. I judge no one, because I know I’m the worst. Maybe it’s not that big of a deal in your life. Take this Lent period to think about it and be honest with yourself. You are doing important, if not yet profitable work on your YT channel. Maybe spend more time and attention there. Speaking of, I’ve finally overcome my distaste for Google/YT and tried to become a channel member or yours, but I couldn’t figure it out. Paul’s channel has a big “Join” button right on the channel home page. Yours just has a “Store” button. What am I missing?