Flutterings

I just booked a train to Atlanta in late May, and a plane back. Turns out that while Atlanta has a train station, there don't seem to be many passenger trains going there. To avoid having to fly there I'm going to have to catch the overnight train late on Friday, get there the next morning, and hope I can find somewhere to stash my bag for seven hours before I can check into my hotel. And there were no trains going out the day after the live show. It was endure an airport, or endure 15 hours on a bus, and I'm not up to the latter in my middle age. I booked an afternoon flight just to be able to get the airport as many hours in advance as possible.
I've now done two more test recordings. The second, done after I finally managed to completely disable the audio on the webcam, sounded just fine, aside from my keyboard being very loud in it(maybe get foam to put under the microphone?). But then again, so did the test recording I did before my first disastrous streaming attempt. I'm going to try again this coming Saturday, so I'll have to see how it goes then.

Everything was going great yesterday-until right before I went online, when I possibly clicked on something wrong, or maybe the problems that failed to make themselves apparent during the test recording just decided to show up on their own. I spent half an hour struggling to get the stream to work. The game audio wasn't playing, and the audio I was getting instead was appalling, and repeating itself at points, or maybe that was just the stream in general, I'm no longer even sure. I gave up in tears.
After venting in one of my discords, something suggest I ask for help in the OBS discord. So I did. They gave me a couple of pieces of advice that helped, probably most notably muting the audio from my webcam. But the game audio is still muting whenever I try to do anything with the OBS, and will almost certainly still do so when I try to do so with Twitch's control page, and their only suggestion for that was that I try to control those remotely, which honestly does not sound realistic. Also their analyzer is still claiming one of my audio devices has a sample rate that doesn't match the rest, and with the webcam muted I can't find any that aren't at 48000 Hz. And while the audio doesn't sound terrible anymore, it's lost volume, and still doesn't sound all that great, and I've heard all too much about how you need it to be good.
I'm tempted to just take today off from trying to deal with it. Go see the cherry trees in DC, maybe, since the ones in the neighborhood are finally blooming. I don't know if I'm even going to try to stream next weekend, but I might aim to make a second go at it the weekend after that.

As is my current custom, I watched about two hours of Critical Role last night, ( enough of it to... ) Nonetheless the Schemer's table is going to be a bit harder for me to watch, because it's so reflective of the times we're already suffering through in real life. I've just come up on a scene I am not looking forward to, so I'm procrastinating on watching it by posting this, which I finally finished yesterday.

Title: Habeas for Superheroes
Part: 13: Page versus Stark
Fandom: Daredevil/Avengers
Characters: Matt/Foggy, Karen, Tony Stark, Colleen Wing
Disclaimer: Now Disney owns them.
Warning: Discussion of MCU Civil War events
Note: Third installment in my Femme!Foggy series.

( Foggy entered the offices of Hogarth, Chao, and Benowitz to find much of the firm gathered in their reception area, eyes on the TV. )