I'm actually surprised by how focused and productive I've been the past month. Much like last year, I wanted to spend the month of April reading and I wanted to make a better effort this year than I did last year. Although I've only finished 1.5 books, I did stick to the reading this month by reading 3-4 hours a day. I started with a book written by a family friend called "The Lu Family Saga". It talks about the many revolutions and wars China went through in the past century and her family's involvement in it. It was a surprisingly easy read as it was about a history I wasn't very familiar with. Right after finishing that book, I went back to continuing reading the Hellgate: London trilogy of books I bought over a decade ago. I had recently finished playing the Hellgate: London videogame for the first time and felt inclined to finish the books. I was halfway through the 2nd book before I stopped nearly 10 years ago since I last read it. I'm currently on the 3rd and last book and think I can finish it sometime next week. It was surprising to me that I remember all the characters and what happened before. Still, that's only 1.5 books I finished and I had planned to read quite a few more books.
How I managed each day this past month was reading the first half of the day and then working on practicing "mastering" audio work the last half of the day. I keep saying "I'll stop early today to play some games" everyday but never managed to do so. After learning about being able to master my audio tracks last year, I really wanted to practice and learn how to use the program to make my music sound better. So I've been going through my previous work and try to remaster each one. I haven't finished that many as two particular tracks had me going back to them for 3 weeks because I was always unsatisfied with something. I'm definitely getting better and it's making it easier to get through, but I can certainly tell I have a lot more to learn. Which, by the way, here is my remix from December:
This was the most complicated video I've created for a music upload. I experimented and learned a lot.
Because of reading and my work habits this month, I realized it's taking a bit of a toll on me. I haven't been exercising, I'm making less time for playing games, and I feel more drained. I'm hoping to balance this a bit during May. I plan on working on a new remix I have a strong idea for while taking the time to get through some more games. I feel restless with the games I'm playing and I'm in that mode where I feel like I'm playing more to complete a game rather than to have fun with it. Maybe that's true and I just need to put a bit more time into games since I really want to. I can tell my brain is looking for that stimulation as I've been staying up late at nights the past week just to play a bit more. I'd rather not ruin my sleep schedule that I've worked so hard on trying to correct. Besides that, I'd like to get back into exercising of some sort. If I don't go to the gym or go out walking, I'm hoping I can do some floor exercise mini-games while I'm playing games.
If things go according to plan, May should prove to be an entertaining and productive month.
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