2021 has been a huge year with massive changes. I got diagnosed with ADHD and found an amazing Youtube channel that has helped me find ways to make life easier. I helped put together a pilot for a Youtube TV series–I wrote most of the episode and did some editing, along with other behind the scenes work. I wrote some stuff of my own, published some of it (not going to link it due to a pen name) and am looking for ways to submit other work to a WGA agent. I created 3 videos–one for fun (TV-14 rated content) and two for education (unable to link due to corporate policies).

Speaking of corporate, I set up a Snipe-IT server for work, as Excel Spreadsheets are the worst thing to have as a source of truth for things such as asset managment. I also got a new job, bought a house,, and got a certification that proves I know basic Japanese (though I didn’t need a certificate to tell me that). I actually read the book Strong Towns and listened to it’s sequel Confessions of a Recovering Engineer, giving me an interesting look into why American towns are failing and going bankrupt. It even inspired me to completely redesign my town’s bus lines, as the ones currently in place are tangled worse than spaghetti, and sent the new map to my city’s Public Transit office (they haven’t responded to my email).

In the tech aspect, I learned how set up an NFS share to make network sharing much, much easier than using Samba. I got tired of manually grabbing files from the internet and learned how to not only create and use SystemD Timer and Service files, but also how to make a .deb file. I even wrote a Hangman game in Rust to learn the language.

I would say it didn’t feel like a lot during the year, but looking back, this year was one of the most stressful. Doing all of those things (and more that I couldn’t list), on top of being a lead IT tech for an understaffed IT crew at a hospital during COVID. The thing is, I don’t want to stop, though I may need to pause for a bit. We’re filming Episode 2 of the Youtube TV series and working on finishing a working draft of Episode 3. I wrote a pilot called IT Crowd based on some true stories I had while working IT jobs. I’m in the middle of a short story project that I hope to finish by Spring of 2022. I want to finish the Rust Hangman project by adding more functionality to it. I want to keep improving a Python script I wrote in order to make it smaller, more robust, and more reliable. And I need to clean my new house, so that I can stop feeling stressed and cramped while in my office, writing blog posts like these.

Maybe I’m asking for too much, but even though I’ve accomplished so much, I still feel like I want more time. More time to spend with my family. More time to play my backlog of video games, watch my backlog of movies and TV shows, read my backlog of books. More time to plan and organize my office so that I don’t have to tear it apart every time I’m looking for something.

Do I feel accomplished? Sitting in my own house at 27 years old? The owner of 3 vehicles, working a cushy job with great benefits, with a finished episode up on Youtube, completed first drafts of works that could potentially be filmed TV shows, and proof of knowing not only an international language, but also computer languages as well?

Honestly, no. But I think those thoughts are for my therapist, not whoever’s reading a random blog post at this exact moment. Either way, I never expected to have done this much this year. A lot of good happened in 2021, at least for me. And that’s a great thing.