7ish years ago (Late November/Early December of 2019) I got myself a Sony Mavica as part of what I thought was going to be a retro-tech blog and youtube channel, which I was planning to launch in March or April of 2020.
Instead I bought and opened a coffee shop (which, with any luck, will be paid off before the end of this year.)
But I used that Mavica a lot, to take a lot of pictures. Here's the first one.
In that photo, my co-worker (who was working out of the spare bedroom at my apartment, along with myself, and at least two other but sometimes as many as four other team members, because we had been hired to run a satellite office that had not opened yet. It would open in Feb of 2020, and close permanently in March of the same year) is coming to the realization that all the work he thought he'd been doing in our staging environment had actually been done against the new Core DC we were in the process of bringing online, meaning he was going to have to revert about an hour of work and also explain to the people who's work he'd overwritten what he had done. None of this would be customer/public facing, it was all just an internal pain in the ass.
I thought this was the perfect moment to take a picture.
I did, eventually, try to do some tech youtuber stuff.
Not on youtube, obviously. I started on peertube. I think that server is offline now, and I don't think any of the videos were good enough to really go dig out and bring up.
I had a specific visual idea and aesthetic I wanted to hit and I almost got it, but I just didn't have a strong enough voice for what I was doing to stand out.
I had an *idea* of the story I wanted to tell, but I never actually tried to tell it.