This morning I joined about 40 other students from America’s Best Defense for a Krav Maga class at Mason Field. Master Garcia led the class and we started with some warm up exercises. Then we got into some drills. I worked with a bunch of people that I had not met before. It was great getting out there meeting other people and throwing punches and kicks. We also did some self defense drills with knives and guns. It was a great class and lots of fun. I’m going to have to start hitting the Saturday 8am classes because once I got to sleep I slept straight through to 5pm. I should also do the Saturday morning classes to work on my conditioning as I prepare for my Black Belt.
I bought a new computer to help me make videos. This has been the way it has been with every new computer for the past several years. I start making videos and at first everything goes great, then technology changes and the way I do things ends up getting slowed down and unworkable. I noticed that my Fortnite videos were starting to drop frames and so the image would totally freeze and sometimes I could not redo something to make it work right. I was getting extremely frustrated. At the time my laptop was completely suited for making videos. Then, it got slower and slower. I tried several things to speed it up but I needed more power. With this new computer I doubled the amount of processing power I had and even got 4GB of video RAM to make things even faster. I picked up the computer, a monitor and two 16 GB memory chips. The computer is a gaming computer and so it has all these fancy lights. The 16GB RAM chips are stylized and have lights on them as well. Many gaming PCs are see through and the lights make them look cool. If you tilt your head behind the computer you can see these light up ram chips. It is not that impressive behind these little dots, though.
The power of the device is, though. I got everything set up with my programs and then set the monitor up with the webcam. I’m all ready to make some videos and also to start streaming games. I’m very excited and will post a new photo of the setup soon.
