Just to give you an idea of how nitpicky insane things can get… As you watch my stream, I prefer to have my gaze directed at the center of my screen. So as I sit in the lower left corner of your screen, I want the angle of my gaze to be directed at the middle of your screen. It just makes sense to me for it to be that way.
And it hasn’t been that way since I was sitting in my lounge chair many months ago. When I was sitting in that chair, my ass was only a few inches off the ground and I was looking up at my tv. Since then, I got this fancy new chair and desk, and now as I stream the angle of my gaze is actually down quite a bit from center.
Here’s a pretty awful distorted photo of the way things are.
See that? My TV is actually pretty darned low.
I could lower my chair a little bit, and lower my desk. The problem with that is the angle on my knees will be messed up and my back will start to hurt. Really the only thing to do is to raise up the entire TV, and there’s only one way to do that, and that’s the hard way.
First I had to figure out how to get my tv off the wall mount, and put it somewhere safe.
I unhooked it from the mount and placed it next to the pandemic toilet paper supply. Safest spot in the whole neighborhood.
Now I gotta move the mount up.
I’d been thinking of raising it 4” but I worked out the angle of the dangle using a laser and found that if I was going to make a difference, the mount would need to go up at least 8”. I grabbed a sheet of office paper and used the 8.5” width of the paper as my template.
Time to screw!
At this point, I’m totally sweating my ass off. It wasn’t because the work was difficult, it was just that I was nervous as heck about my tv just leaning over on the toilet paper cases. I was pretty sure it’d either just tip over or Odin would come raging into the room and knock it over.
After a fair amount of screwing and cursing, I got La to help me put the tv back on the mount.
There was just one minor problem.
The light to the left of the tv (to my right) was now in front of the tv, casting glare on the tv screen and preventing me from turning the tv so that I can see it from the couch when I’m loafing during the day, watching Star Trek.
No big deal, right? Just raise the light, right? Wrong! My camera mount is attached to the same section of pole as my light, so moving the light up moves my camera up at the same time.
After some gnashing of teeth and more cursing, and a whole lot of fidgeting and adjusting, I moved the light and the camera up and then readjusted the light.
And now here we are.
Now, I know it doesn’t look like much, but that TV is now 8.5” higher up than it was. The light on my front right is also higher up, and my camera is in the same place as it was before, give or take a hair or so.
All that just so that the angle of my gaze can be a little more toward the center of the screen on my stream.