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Oct 15, 2024 20:51:50 GMT
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Maybe it's just the onset of SAD (Seasonally Affected Disorder), as the dark nights of Autumn draw in...
I've faced the same alternator issues on my Minor. It's handy if you have some sort of lever/crowbar to help with lifting the alternator away from the block while you tighten it, but obviously not something you may have available at the roadside.
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vulgalour
Club Retro Rides Member
Posts: 7,249
Club RR Member Number: 146
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Oct 17, 2024 15:32:04 GMT
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Whatever it is, I just want to get better and back to normal. I literally know as much about what it could be as any of you making guesses and am at the mercy of the NHS.
At the moment just to add to it all I've picked up a nasty cold, so that's been doubling-down on on some of the physical symptoms. Happily, the brain fog has lifted a lot this week and while I'm physically well below par, mentally I'm getting back towards normal which is nice. Emotionally I feel perfectly fine and normal, which in a way is good and in a way is annoying since that really does point at this being something physical and harder for me to fix on my own.
In other car related news, this week I've been able to start actually thinking about, planning, and researching my small business future. I'm unsure whether or not I'm returning to the NHS job, it's demanding in a way that my art career isn't and I might not be able to actually meet those demands. It would be a shame, of course, I'd really rather like to be part of the NHS, I just have to accept my own limitations.
I've got to get my marketing improved considerably. Making the product is the easy bit, I know how to do that and can do it at a pretty rapid pace due to years of experience. Actually getting the product out there and selling it is a different matter, and that's my current focus. It's harder than just posting on Facebook and getting a real world gallery to accept your work, you have to craft a whole brand and identity, parasocial relationships, regular update schedule, etc. I've been a bit too scattergun with my approach because I've struggled to really just focus on one idea and push that one thing.
The end goal is to make sure I've got the several grand together I need to before I move house next year - new pc, appliances, rent deposit, moving costs, car repairs - and have a business that can look after itself a bit better than it is at the moment. The bigger end goal is to buy a house, that's about £100k, and at 42 I don't have much time left to sort that out if I'm to stand any chance of getting a mortgage.
I do want to do more with the car content as part of my work. I want to push the car artwork a lot harder, get a broader reach, and I want to make the Youtube channel a real going concern as a place to document living with and working older cars, as well as advertising my artwork. I've just got to figure out how to join the dots from here to there.
The one thing I absolutely won't do is rejoin Facebook or Twitter. Neither place has ever been anything but stress and a massive timesink, full of people trying to steal off me through spurious refund claims, not paying invoices, and generally being awful. Anything else is fair game really, probably even going to dust off Instagram and figure out how to use it to help me in a way that doesn't involve them stealing all my work to train their AI garbage.
Things are looking up at least. I'm positive about the future because I think it's very possible I can make all of this work. Socially I'm in a way better place than I've been for years, it's just my health letting me down at the moment and holding me back from success.
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Oct 17, 2024 18:18:19 GMT
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Iron deficiency?
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glenanderson
Club Retro Rides Member
Posts: 4,299
Club RR Member Number: 64
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Oct 17, 2024 19:14:10 GMT
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Twitter is just a poisonous nest of bots, lunatics, hidden agenda nut jobs and spammers. The best thing anyone can do for their mental health is to stay as far away from there as possible.
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My worst worry about dying is my wife selling my stuff for what I told her it cost...
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