{"id":12208,"date":"2025-08-20T23:59:59","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T06:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adoptedjoy.com\/?p=12208"},"modified":"2025-08-21T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T07:00:00","slug":"youtube-self-portrait-and-various-whatnots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adoptedjoy.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/20\/youtube-self-portrait-and-various-whatnots\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube, Self-Portrait, and Various Whatnots"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>School is underway, people are getting themselves into sports, and that leaves me with the joys of filling in all the forms for all the sportsers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to that, I&#8217;ve been grappling with a seemingly insurmountable insurance fiasco that had me first crashing out today, weeping at my own perceived stupidity, and then tackling insurance phone calls and texts with a fabulous support person and finally emailing the right person and then it was *instantly* solved. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gratitude.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Side benefit: a teaching moment wherein I could show my kids that it&#8217;s possible to move through a meltdown and, through perseverance, succeed in the end. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve also been working on my You tube channel, improving things here and there, learning a little bit more every day about how to do things better with thumbnails and descriptions, learning how to add and mix musical tracks with vocal recording. I expect to be much better at this in a couple of months if I keep up at this rate!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s my latest offering:<\/p>\n\n\n<p><p class=\"responsive-video-wrap clr\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sonnet XXIX: When, In Disgrace With Fortune And Men\u2019s Eyes, By William Shakespeare\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mUyyKuTcGck?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p><\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you&#8217;d like to help my channel grow, please <strong>like, subscribe, and share!<\/strong> Also, commenting is always welcome! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Besides my deep dives into video production, I have also gotten back to the gym this week. I discovered, not for the first, or last time I expect, that doing two workouts in one day &#8211; bike in the morning and swimming at night &#8211; means no workout the next two days as I recover. Maybe I can go tomorrow again, but recovery takes longer at 58 than it did at 28, that&#8217;s for sure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today I had to try my first self portrait. I got the cutest pair of palazzo pants from my daughter and wanted to see how they looked on me (I really don&#8217;t have a full length mirror in the house). So I set up the camera on the tripod, figured out how to do the automatic timer, and took some photos. I suppose it was probably a total of 25 shots before I got it right, having to adjust the height of the camera several times. 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