RelaxingASMR

Passenger view on rainy night drive.

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I think I may have mentioned that I would be posting a rain video next. Here it is. I slept pretty good to it last night:) I know I posted another 10 hour rain video very recently, but not to worry, my channel will always be mainly about my simple leisurely pursuits, and I have plenty of those videos coming in the future. Thank you for your patronage:)

Perusing a 21 year old Christmas Catalog

Hey everybody. Here we are in the later half of the year already. Halloween and Thanksgiving will blow by us like a race horse and the Christmas season will be upon us. I loved looking at Christmas catalogs when I was a kid and so did my own kids. Even though I have some older catalogs, I chose this one because the majority of my viewers were kids when this catalog was released by JCPenny. I ramble for over two hours about this and that as I study each page and figure this will end up being a...

The NEW Parker 51 - Good as the old 51?

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I hope this post finds you well. Some of you know that I am a fan of vintage Parker 51 fountain pens. When I learned that Parker was releasing an all-new 51, I decided to set aside a little here and there so that I could acquire one. I finally ordered one and am happy to show it to you in this video along with a couple of vintage examples.

I didn't come right out and say it in the video, but I was disappointed that the pen's color was darker than what I was expectin...

This pen!

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Who says you have to spend a ton of money to enjoy fountains pens? As a fountain pen enthusiast, I appreciate the expensive fountain pens made by Montblanc, Pelican, Parker, and the rest, but, those pens can be cost prohibitive to so many people including myself. I'd love to have a Pelican M1000 or Parker Duofold Centennial, and of course, my dream-pen, the Montblanc 149, but the truth is that I get just as much enjoyment from using well-designed inexpensive pens such as ...

Baseball Cards and More

Hey everybody. I hope you have been well.

In this video I inspect a couple of small die cast cars, clean the blade of a pocket knife, tease for an upcoming fountain pen video, and sort through some baseball cards. I had a great deal of trouble with the audio on this one. You see, I have introduced a shotgun style microphone into the mix and I am still learning how to use it properly. That's why this isn't a pen video, because I want to figure out this microphone before I make the next o...

ASMR Pool

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I almost posted this over on my gaming channel but thought maybe it would be a better fit on my regular channel. Hope everyone is well!

Thank you for your patronage:)

Working a Crossword with the New Jotter

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Hope all is well with everyone. I've been using my new Parker Jotter XL every chance I get lately and decided to work this crossword. Hope you like it. Thanks for your patronage!

Huge Parker Jotter!

So I finally picked up a Parker Jotter XL ballpoint pen. Larger than the standard Jotter, the XL's size is very comfortable to write with. In this video I also show you a few standard Jotters, do a little show-n-tell of green objects, and report back on the Dryden fountain pen we looked at in the last video.

Thank you all for your patronage!

I purchased a new fountain pen

Hey everybody. I was browsing fountain pens on the internet and purchased this one based on it's beautiful green color. I had never heard of the brand but decided to roll the dice and make the purchase. I was not disappointed.

I also decided to start putting links in the descriptions of the items I enjoy in case any of you are so inclined to purchase them yourselves. Any purchases made from those links will help me with the channel.

Thank you for your patronage. I'm amazed that yo...

ASMR Chore Video! Mower Maintenance

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Hope all is well. Recently retrieved my lawn mower from the shed after a winter hibernation and prepped it for the 2021 mowing season. Hope you like the video.

Baseball Cards

Baseball season is once again in full swing and so I thought I'd post this little video. Thank you all for your patronage:)

Here is a rain video

Hey everybody. I have mentioned before that I occasionally like to upload non-ASMR videos as a way to attract people to my channel and this is just such a video. I myself actually love rain videos, and so these are not such a bad fit for my channel. I filmed this with my iPhone and also edited it on my phone as well, changing it from a short 10-15 minute clip into a 3 hour sleep aid. There will probably be more videos in the future shot and edited from my phone. The video I'll be releasing th...

Maps Cars Pens and Beer?

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Thanks for all the well wishes for my wife. She seems to have recovered from Covid for perhaps the second time. There are still lingering problems from the illness, but things are much better, so much so that I was able get back out into my detached studio/man-cave and tinker around some. I appreciate your support, I really do.

CROSSWORD PUZZLE

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Still pulling from from content I already had on my computer as Mrs. R recovers from what seems to have been COVID, though testing was negative. Nine days of feeling terrible has left her weak and we are trying to build her strength. She had all the classic symptoms, even the loss of taste and smell. Thank you for your patience as we work through this and I hope to be back out in my detached studio/den/man-cave and creating new content soon, but until then I am trying to s...

Speed Art?

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My wife has been under the weather for a few days now and so my Youtube work has been relegated to finishing up some small projects that have been sitting, taking up valuable hard drive space on my laptop. My study/studio is detached from my home and so I have been hanging close by in order to tend to her. Not sure what is wrong. She has all the symptoms of COVID, but rapid test was negative. Hope to have the results of the more accurate test back  tomorrow. She is d...

Well here is the last of the matchbooks

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This video finishes up the matchbook collections. As you know the first eight matchbook videos were of my wife's collection and these latest two are of my late aunt's small collection. It's been really fun looking at and documenting the matchbooks and in a way I am sort of sad to bring the series to a close. 

I appreciate each of you. Thank you for being a patron.

Trying to get RICH!

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Let's do some scratch off lottery tickets. Not sure how good of an ASMR video it'll be but let's find out.

Thanks for your patronage!

Cursive Writing With Wood Burning Tool

I purchased a wood burning tool several weeks ago and finally got around to trying it out on some popsicle sticks. I can see the potential in this tool and am already planning the next project for it, which will be decorating a small wooden box to store a couple of green laser pointers in. Of course I plan to document the process in a video. Hope you like this first-run with this new tool.

As always, thank you for being a patron. It is not taken fro granted:)

Let's do a word search puzzle

Happy new year everyone. Let's kick off with a simple word search puzzle. Videos that have been recorded but have not made their way to post production include some wood-burning, scratch-off tickets, crossword and more. Stay tuned and thank you for your continued patronage:)

Let's Flip Through a 2000 JCPenny Christmas Catalog

Merry Christmas everyone. My sincere hope is that you all are doing well during this tough time in history. 2020 is almost over and none of us are sure what 2021 holds in store, but, here is a video to take your mind off things if only for an hour. Thank you so much for continuing to support my channel through Patreon. My wife and I appreciate each of you.

Let's draw sunglasses on people!

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Hope you all are doing OK. Here is a video where I draw sunglasses on the people in a catalog. I've done this for as long as I can remember and thought I'd share this sunglass session with you and talk about sunglasses a little. Hope you like the video. I myself wasn't pleased with the audio, but then again...I never am LOL. Thanks for your patronage!

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Choosing This or That

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Thought I'd post a This or That video. Been a while since I made on of these. Tried different microphone setup and it did not work out so well. Maybe it'll be OK. Thanks for your patronage!

Where the heck am I?

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A while back, I had played an online version of a geography guessing game called Geoguesser. I was playing the free version and the advertisements really cluttered the screen and slowed the play. Many subscribers really liked the video and after repeated request for another, I bought a subscription for the game and this video is the first of the new series "Where is this?" Hope you enjoy it and thanks again for your patronage:)

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20 more great athletes

Hey everybody. Here is the next installment of the 100 greatest athletes. Hope you like it and thank you for the way you support my efforts.

Channel Growth Video

Every now and then I stray a little from my ASMR roots and post a video that is mainly meant to reach Youtube viewers that are interested in relaxing so they can sleep, but possibly are not aware of ASMR type videos. This is one such video.

This 10 hour video really ate up the space on my computer and now that it's finished I can move it off onto the external backup drives and get to work post processing/editing the next ASMR video which has already been filmed.

My wife and I appr...

Pencils Pens and Chocolate

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I hope everyone is doing well. In this video I swap out a couple of pencils, and I ink a fountain pen in preparation for the next Great Athlete video. Speaking of Athletes, sporting events are beginning again as of late, but with the pandemic, politics, and other stuff, it just doesn't seem the same, and so I haven't been too excited about it, however, I'll make an attempt to watch some college football later today and who knows, perhaps it'll be great.

Pandemic lif...

Enjoying a few tiny die cast cars

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This video was supposed to be the opening minute or two of a pen/pencil video, but I started talking about the company depicted by the car's graphics and before you know it, I had spent way too much time for an opener, so I decided to make it a stand alone video. It's not lengthy, but hope you like it. Thank you for supporting this thing I do.

Let's make a list shall we?

Hey everybody. Time to make the "Best Athletes" list. In this video I'll do 1-20.

Just sitting here watching coverage of Hurricane Laura as it approaches the Texas/Louisiana coast. As if any of us needs more problems right? 2020 has been a terrible year it seems. Sometimes we just need to turn off the news and do something else, like goof around with a fountain pen.

Also, I purchased a wood burning kit and sometime in the future you'll get to see my first attempt at using it. I'm ...

Me Playing in Billiards Tournament

Here is something a bit different. Thank you for your patronage!

Dating Parker Vacs

In this video I'll show you how to tell when a Parker Vacumatic fountain pen was produced. It starts off with little cars of course. Thanks for supporting my channel through Patreon!