Alucolor & Roksys: We Don't Know What We Are Doing

Rok and I have been under a lot of stress recently, partially just as a result of being alive. We love our new apartment and are so glad to finally be alone, but our rent is now higher. Which we are hoping becomes less of a problem with getting a new job, ideally we wanted to get the new apartment around the same time as a new job, but most things don't work out ideally. But for right now we are a little strapped for cash and are trying to cut back as much as we think we can get away with. Which leads into the next reason we are stressed, our cat Monty. The little monster is so good, and we love him dearly, but he is very costly. We recently get a dental estimate of about $600-$900 for the various teeth things needing to be done. And of course we want him to live a healthy pain free life, so we are getting a loan from a pet service. And while that is going to be better than paying it all upfront, we are going to have to pay monthly payments that we can only barely afford while st...

We're still pushing boxes around, but the worst is over, so we can get back to blogging irregularly and streaming sometimes! Although we are also planning on changing jobs soon, so maybe it's not over after all! We've officially submitted our final assignments for our machining course, so once they get graded, we should have our certifications and our instructor was helping us look for jobs to apply for and put in a good word for us with a place where he's sent students in the past with good results. So come July, we might be making parts for spinal implants, which sounds pretty rad. Much better than listening to people's phone calls all day. And we'd get a swing shift with four 10 hour days, which I think sounds ideal, so we get to sleep until we wake up and then get a weekend and then some! I'm trying not to get my hopes up too high, since we don't actually have the job yet. Especially because we won't actually get to start until July after a pla...

So we haven't gone over goals in a while, even while we were still kind of blogging, so I will try to be honest about these goals. But just like with this blog we haven't been keeping up on anything else unfortunately. | Fitness Goals| Bench 100 lbs| We haven't been going to the gym :T Lift Three Times per week| See above Do Cardio Four Times per Week| We have sometimes done 1 active cardio a week, we have been moving stuff all around our house so i am going to count that at least some Tuesday Night Yoga| We have kinda been doing this, we have at least been going to my aunt's house to attempt yoga but that doesn't mean we succeed Morning Yoga| Absolutely have not be doing Reach Weight Goal 180| I'm embarrassed to say but I am back at 200 again, we dropped off our diet and thought we would start again from phase 1, but that has lead to us eating bad this week because we are dieting next week. |Lifestyle Based| Meal prep| Honestly thi...

Geez, I feel like there is a huge weight on my chest. This past week we have continued to move and put our place back together, or at least trying to. We are closer than we were last time I blogged but I would give it another while before we have everything really good. But we have got our office/game room more put together and there is even a path to our guinea pig cage now. We have also been working on finishing up the last part of our machining class. Job seeking skills. Which is harder then I had hoped it would be. We have found some good job leads in the process and have our instructor who is willing to vouch for us, but it is still a daunting task to find job in a trade I didn't know existed a year ago. I am having trouble writing a cover letter, partially because I don't know how necessary it is for our particular field. But I am hoping I can still write a relatively good cover letter despite having little experience in the field and not that many qualifications behin...

Hello, and we’re finally back from our month and a half long hiatus. I wish there was a better reason why we haven’t been blogging but honestly it is just because we forgot, or had nothing interesting to say. So we are going to try blogging on Mondays and Fridays, and have our goal reflection day still be Sunday. So I know we aren’t very interesting most of the time, hopefully blogging two of the seven days we result in more interesting blogs, we shall see. Not a super lot has happened in the last month and a half. There has been one huge thing though, we finally moved! We moved in to our new apartment last Sunday and it has been a wild week trying to balance work, moving and motivation. But we are liking our new place a lot, it is finally just the two of us plus our pets. We still don’t have everything together but we at least got our living room and dinning room ready so we could have our moms over for mother’s day. We have spent a lot of money and bought a lot of furniture but we ...

I've posted a few times before about short-lived, ADD-induced bouts of creative energy. This has led to a lot of concepualization, but very rarely to any real fabrication. This week, that's taken the form of a board game I had an idea for a few years ago which I won't detail here for paranoia reasons. But I'm hoping to at least get it a bit closer to finished than a lot of other things I try. I'm looking into making it into a mobile game, since it's a simple concept that Alu and I can hopefully figure out on our own, and releasing it digitally shouldn't be as costly as a physical product. I think the main problem that arises is our lack of coding knowledge, but a few widely available game engines either come with or can be outfitted with methods of getting around that, and I've read that Unity and Unreal can be used for free until your game makes a certain amount of money, which would be great for a start. Of course, all of this rests on the rather fl...