[Current Mood | accomplished ]

The front yard is full of sparrows, and Podrick is watching them with great interest. We also woke up to sunshine again, and the forecast says today should be very nice. I let Shawshank sleep.

Last night’s shift wasn’t awful, but definitely could’ve been better. I’ve gotten used to my new setup, with my slightly repositioned “desk”. In an effort to focus more on looking into the camera more, I added one more little tweak to things: rearranging the program windows. Usually, the screen is split between the Chaturbate chat (left) and OBS (right), and my cell is hovering a bit over the top of the screen (upper left). Yesterday, I swapped the windows so OBS is right under the camera because I’ve realized that it looks a little more natural to flick my eyes down to look at OBS rather than over to the side. I’m still adjusting to it, but it’s only been a day. I’m going to tweak the position of the cam itself today, and see if I can get it to look good. If I ever start making enough, I want to upgrade to an OBSBot cam, which will have some zoom options (on top of being a better overall camera)¹.

When I logged out, I did the one last thing I wanted to do with this new spreadsheet tracker, which was to deal with generating the graphs. With the info the API-slurpers are sucking in, I can generate a timeline of events in chat (follows/unfollows, room title changes, tips, etc). Last night, I added graphs that plot viewers and rank over the course of my stream. In its current form, I can click on any point on the graph and see a list of events that happened “around” that point, from 15 minutes before to 5 minutes after that point. Even though I only have about four days of “full” info, I was able to see two hashtags that definitely weren’t doing me any favors. Every time the graph plummeted, I could see exactly what hashtags were being used in my room’s title. I took two of them out, and we’ll see whether my graphs start to smooth out a bit.

Today is the last shift of the week for both of us, then we get a day off. I have the curlers heating up, and I’ll get on the bean in the afternoon, after I’ve smoked up a personality.

1. Or, hear me out, I could just flip the phone around and use the back camera. ↩︎

[Current Mood | amused ]

[Listening To | sounds of the morning ]

Good morning, world. Looks like sunshine’s back on the menu. I’ll take it while we can. Podrick was a very good boy this morning, and actually slept between us for almost an hour this morning. I was up a few times, usually when Shawshank got up.

Last night’s shift was ok. I streamed for a couple of hours, took a quick dinner break, then went back to work for a few more. The dudes were typical. My “shift” seems to straddle the evening commute in the US and late night across the pond, and I’m trying to stay online later before it’s better traffic for me. I’m pretty sure my awkward international harem now includes a German guy. I’ve made a list of commands, commands, and encouragement in different languages, and I am absolutely going to screw them up. It’s going to be great.

I logged off an hour before Shawshank‘s shift ended, giving me plenty of time to reset the bedroom before he came home. There was even enough time for me to hop in the shower.

Two more nights. Halloween’s almost here, maybe I should start dressing up a little or something.

1. I’m not kidding, this was in a CBT we took. ↩︎

Good morning, world. Yesterday’s short-lived sunshine has moved on out and the clouds have rolled back in. It was a hard sleep, a little too warm, a little too uncomfy. Podrick snuggled.

I had another shitty shift. I only made a little more money than Tuesday – emphasis on little – but I stuck it out for a few hours. I logged out after 3+ hours, and took a break for dinner. I’d left things set up to go back to, but decided to clean up instead. I wasn’t getting much paying traffic, and whatever progress I might’ve made up the ranks by that point would have been lost when I logged out. I watched a beautiful sunset while I broke down my set. I smoked the last of the nug I’d ground before my shift, then sat on the couch for a while, did some things, and then took a hot shower.

[Current Mood | accomplished ]

Hello, world. It’s a sunny fucking Wednesday in TinyTown. It’s taken him a full 18 months, but I think Podrick has figured out he can sleep on the bed with us. Most of the time, he still insists on chest cuddles before he’ll go back to the foot of the bed, but he did curl up next to me for a few minutes. It’s a start. If only he understood the lumps under the blanket are Shawshank‘s legs and didn’t step on him.

I need a good stream tonight, last night was awful. My ranking was in the toilet for the majority of the night. Somewhere under the toilet, actually. I think I need to mute at least one of the dudes who’s been in lately, because I don’t want to deal with him. Chaturbate recently added a chat translation feature, which is fucking great. I use a bot in chat that blocks demands (and subsequently a load of free dirty talk), but it only works for demands made in English. The bot sees non-English and ignores it, then Chaturbate translates it and now I have some random German dude begging me to put the camera to my lips so he can kiss me. The dude who fancies himself a writer is just as bad. He claims to be an erotic author, begging me to send him a private message so he can send me stories. His chats in English, but because his bullshit is so obsequious, it gets through the bot. He should be muted as well.

On a positive note, I pared down one of my always-on overlays in OBS. It looks great, and I can see it better, which was the whole point. I think I might change the font a little. I swapped out the old overlay after a break yesterday, and I’ll tweak the new one a little before I log in this afternoon. Last night was also the first time testing out the new tracker. One of the APIs logs everything: user entries/exists, tips, every message sent, room title changes, all of it. I trimmed down that import because I don’t need quite that much data. Between the three APIs, I should have a pretty good idea of what’s happening in my room, and when. I just need to build a display for it.

Let’s have a good Wednesday. It’s time to assume a human form.

[Current Mood | blah ]

Good morning, world. The holiday weekend has moved out and the new week has started for us. Once again, we woke up under grey skies. As long as the cloud cover isn’t too thick, it should be good light for streaming. I woke up a few times and felt Podrick sleeping on the foot of the bed. This is a new development, which I’m totally ok with.

As planned, we did very little yesterday. Shawshank made us a yummy brunch of bacon and eggs and muffins, then played Tropico all day. I messed around with my laptops, working on a spreadsheet on one and generic internetting on the other. I’m vibe coding again; I didn’t like typing in so much data into the previous stream tracker I made. The new one hooks into a couple of APIs that spit out data and slurps up the bullshit, all I need to do is enter my start/stop times and how many tokens I made. Pippin spent an hour in my lap while I read posts on Reddit. The hoes were arguing whether or not pretty privilege is a thing in camming, how much being conventionally attractive affects the money you can make, and ✨every body is beautiful and every body has an audience✨. Podrick did orange cat shit. We watched “Sinners” in the afternoon, Shawshank made bacon cheeseburgers for dinner, and we watched wrestling.

We’re back to work today, another 5-day week for us. This should be a nice week, I don’t think we have to do much of anything but get through it.