Up Since 3 a.m.

I was thrilled and excited about EverQuest 2. My character 'Alaana' was in The Commonlands, and discovered they have a shuttle transport system using a flying griffon. I filmed it, and made a video, which I put on youtube entitled, "Winged Flight On A Griffon". I put in a couple of touches, and I like the results. But to able to fly on the back of a bird on an online game was incredible.
Also of note, is that I was standing on the beach, and the water of the ocean was moving up and down. I had never seen that in a video game before, I was impressed. I know how hard it is to program stuff like that. It was a marvel to see.

I have seen the entire evolution of video games in my life, from a Pong table top machine in 1973 at a Shakey's Pizza is Southern California to the online gaming phenomena. From then to now is incredible progress. We could only dream in the 80's of playing a game even remotely similar to Dungeons & Dragons, and now they have that game online, for free, and the game play is pretty unique, and the dungeons I'm really impressed with. It's the 'wow factor' these days. It makes me happy to be alive to see all this stuff.

Then finally, after a year, I figured out how to get the adsense to work on my youtube account. It wasn't hard. I just had to be of clear mind, and figure out where to even look. I'm looking forward to seeing how long it will take to make my first penny, my first dollar, and my first $10. That will be incredible, if anything happens at all. I'm curious to what the top youtubers make per month, but many people make $500 - $800 a month on youtube. That is incredible. Beats working. I'd love to make that kind of bank from youtube, and sit at home all day making videos and art. Sounds like a good life. I do that anyway, but to get paid for it would be awesome.

I did get a $20 check from filling out some survey through my school. To make any money online is an accomplishment. I'm still trying to pay off what it cost for my two computers. I bought them hoping to make money to justify spending that much money on these machines. Now I can't live without them, I wouldn't want to. Life wouldn't be as fun. I always have something to do with the computers around, they are very useful tools.

That would be cool to make money from blogging, too. I have so much writing that I've done over the last twenty years, maybe it is time for people to actually read what I have written. A lot of it is diary and journal work, but it is the document of my life and work. My writing has been one of my best friends.

So I'm excited about online games, thrilled about the possibilities of making money with youtube; when it shows that I have made one red penny, I will be stoked.

Why aren't I in bed asleep? Because it is fun to stay up half the night.

I was so thrilled with what I was seeing online, I didn't even bother to go out, even though it was a Saturday night. What was I going to do, have a drink, look at a couple of women, and go home? I did that the night before.