Welcome to Episode 162 of my podcast. The view from the crow's nest and it is Friday the 27th of November 2020 Black Friday. In fact, how many deals Have you got. Have you got any. This year, due to the financial situation imposed upon myself and my family by the covid 19 business. I've been rather light in my black friday shopping. Last year I seem to remember rinsing loads of stuff. And the only thing I've bought thus far is curiosity stream, which was meant to be $12, but somehow they billed me 14 and a half dollars for it, which is thousands apparently thousands of award winning documentaries, literally just bought it about an hour ago, and put it on TV on the fire stick camela today at all yet, because I'm going to bed, but I did think that it might be useful as part of the homeschooling stuff if there's documentaries on there that we can watch or that Mina can watch particularly because she is really curious, no pun intended. And, you know, I think it's easy to have Netflix and Disney plus and Amazon Prime and all of that, and they have great entertainment and also some really good documentaries, but it'll be better or not better but it could be excellent if we've got a whole load of documentaries that she can watch so that's all the shopping that I have done thus far. However, what I did do today, partially inspired by yesterday's podcast. After the question from Roy regarding the lab is my first ever Black Friday offer. So I decided to put the lab up for half price 50% off just 15 pounds for the entire year. That's like, you know, one pound something, a month, nothing for yes for the lab, and a couple of reasons for that one because I've been flooded with black friday offers from every man and his dog in the last week or two. And today in particular, so it's very much on my mind that that is what people do at this time, but to really because I've got, you know music that I really want to share with more people. And I want to give it to my the fans the guys in my, in the lab first for sure. But I'd like to have more people in there so I can share more stuff, particularly the work I'm doing on. More recently, you know, as I won't go into it but the production my production games improved the couple of songs I've nearly done for blind eye to love. And you have that album and a few other songs coming from that album and I just think they're sounding really good and I just want more people to that. So, until the first of December, if you're interested in you're not already a member of the lab, just head over to Romeo crow calm, and you'll see it front and centre, and it'll cost you all of 15 whole pounds which is about $18 or something like that, maybe, $19, or so. Yes, so that's kind of part my day, my calendar, my 2021 calendar which I should have received from the printers today hasn't even been printed yet because for the last three or four days. They've just been pestering me with telling me that the files aren't, right, or this problem or that problem or they're too big or, and I've printed my calendar with them for the last four years, I think this is the fifth year, and I've never had a problem. So, and they've changed their systems. So all I'm saying is I think their systems suck ass. Then new systems obviously not working but nonetheless. I've wasted so much time, honestly, like redoing stuff in Photoshop and re sending it and then they can't open this link their website doesn't receive the files properly send it through this thing that didn't the writer, ah, do, and I put them all in a folder, send them a link to the folder and they're there like it policy means we learn how to open External links slack for goodness sake guys sort your bloody selves out. Anyhow, so that's taken up a large portion of my in stupidly large proportion of my day. I did manage to continue to do my kind of vocal practice stroke. song practice so again the same set of six songs. And I felt today that vocally I'm starting to get a bit of
