Marks Blog

Decaffeination Day 0 Days without caffeine:0 Weight: 348.9 lbs Waist: 55 inches Mood: hopeful I've been wanting to lose weight for quite some time. I have also done research as to how soda effects the mind and body (spoilers it's not good). But I have yet to stop drinking the stuff. Don't get me wrong, in the past I've promised myself that this case/bottle/whatever will be the last one I'll ever buy and then I'll quit soda forever. Or rather two or three days later. (if that at all) This time when I quit drinking soda I'll use this blog to keep me on task.  I've tried to quit soda before, with little success, but that was before I remembered that I have this blog. Hopefully if I keep in mind that I have to make a daily blog post about drinking soda I will find it difficult to justify buying the soda. I thought of making this as a YouTube series, but I already have more than I should probably handle with my various YouTube se...

I had a strange dream the other night, I don't usually have dreams (or very rarely remember them if I understand that everyone has dreams all of the time) so when I do I try to write them down. Not that I actually believe that dreams really mean anything. Well, I do kind of agree with the idea that dreams are a way for the mind to process something that the mind is trying to deal with. An that night my mind might have been dealing with my financial issues along with some vodka and mountain dew my roommate bought that night (which tastes like earwax BTW). Anyway in the dream I had shown up early for work so I could check my bank balance on the ATM. {dream logic, I would have used my banking phone app IRL} But as I checked my balance the ATM withdrew all of the money out of my account. It's not much, just a little under $200, but it's all that I have. But before I could react an asshole kid (I say kid, but the person was on the older end of his teens) snagged the ...

Well, I'm livid. And I apologize this is going to be scatter brained, I am writing this as my brain flounders through the situation. I'm going to do a video on it tomorrow after work, but for now I want to say SOMETHING SOMEWHERE. I've been on YouTube since the EARLY days of YouTube, like back before they were bought out by Google. And I've been a YouTube partner since 2008, but coming up in February I'll be losing my partnership status with YouTube. Because the new guidelines of the site say that you have to have at least 1,000 subscribers and 4,000 hours of watch time in the last 12 months. I have 59 subscribers and just under 20,000 minuets watched for my ENTIRE channel history (or at least since Sep. 2012 when they started counting watch time). That's right around 330 hours, for about five years. And A LOT of that watch time was in my AMV's that I deleted when I decided to try to do YouTube as an actual way to make a living. And I didn't ...