I spent last January and some of February 2020 travelling between Holland, Oman and Ireland. I at this point already knew I would be moving to Oman but Covid put a huge pause in those plans.

So I needed to decide where I would get stuck for a while and after maybe two seconds I decided on Ireland. A village called Drumshanbo, a little south of Sligo area where I used to live before.

It had been a little while since I had presented a webcast for the members, So I decided to do a webcast every evening for the foreseeable future to just give us all something to focus on while the members are unable to work.

I did over seventy consecutive webcasts. How I really don’t know, but it really was a lot of fun.

I took with me a Stream Deck which I had already, purchased Ecamm Live, a software streaming solution. I used my new Sony a7iii as the webcam. Wired that into an ATEM Mini Pro from Blacknight and I was set.

I decided to stream to a private members group on Facebook instead of using Wowza which I had been using for ten years. Facebook is free…! And has a great comments section for your broadcast.

I really don’t like Facebook but I will use it for a while longer until I get my own site where I want it with regard of hosting using Wowza again.

I purchased a small Wacom tablet for the first time, and I now prefer it to the medium size which I always bought previously.

Ended up buying a new 16in Apple MacBook Pro, the first computer purchase for over five years.

It became a really cool set up with the addition of a few LED studio lights.

I really enjoyed those seventy plus days last year, I get the feeling I may do the same again soon…