For the first time I can ever recall, today, I snored while in class. Someone tried to tap on my head to wake me but the teacher said “he’s dead”. Ha ha ha. I was so out of it last Thursday and today in class. Man oh man that was crazy. It’s really nice to sleep in, but I really need to figure out a way to get used to having class at 11am. It’s so freakin’ early.
While playing Metroid Prime 3, it started getting really hot, and I was losing focus. Now, I know I’m sick, but I haven’t had medicine since that one incident in 10th grade where I almost died. The last time I had one of those, I didn’t take any medicine, they just put me in the emergency room and had me on breathing equipment. I dunno if that counts though.
So I said, it was getting very hot. Mom came down and said I had a fever. Well, that explains it! And now here I am, 10 minutes later, kinda not feeling as bad because I took some medicine, and I’m eating food! I hate how my parents always seem to assume there’s plenty of food for me, when they don’t even check. Dad was telling me there were Hot Pockets, but there hadn’t been any for over a month. At least I’m finding another way to get protein through eggs, and I’m finally eating bread again rather than just pizza dough or whatever they use to enclose any sort of pocketed pizza. It feels so good. We need to seriously buy more bread.
After all of this time, I have two things to say.
One is that I’ve finally started work on cleaning up my music collection again. Too bad I have a bunch of songs where there’s an album it came from, I just happen to only have one song from the album. I dunno if I wanna keep the folders for the albums or just take out the ones w/ only one song and put them into the general folder. Who knows, this is tricky!
Some of them, I don’t really have info for either so I’m curious as to what’ll happen when I’m done going through all 9500+. I’m lucky to find a few full albums here and there, but it’s difficult when things are changing. I’m trying to catch as many as I can right now, but there’s always the possibility that after I get through this list, there will be more albums needing my attention much higher up in the library.
Oh yeah, I have a lot of .wma files. I need to convert those over to MP3 and grab the album info on them.
The other one is that I e-mail an old friend of mine I haven’t spoken to in a long time the other day. We’re back to being friends again I guess. I dunno, it made me very happy, that’s for sure. I’ll see what happens. This is one of those wait and watch things as most of the stuff is this year. That’s just probably from my cinicism, but either way, I’m going to make the best of what I’ve got these days.
Oh! Mark and I are gonna start playing the Wii Voting channel again if I can get home early enough to have time to call ‘im up.
A year ago, I remember having ~30GB of music on my PC. Apparently, during a a large search for new music to put on my phone, I found that I had not only 40GB of music, but a bunch of unorganized stuff. As a kid, I was such and idiot. I think I might’ve screwed up my entire collection of music because I started ripping CDs and downloading music illegally when I was in 6th grade (1998-99) when you could just go to a random website and pick up some new MP3s to add to your collection. I can even name you the first three I downloaded because I remember calling up mom on the cell phone (remember, we had dial-up) and telling her the good news that I was gonna save her tons of money because she didn’t have to buy music anymore.
What an idiot I was! I thought it was legal. Like, I thought people were idiots who stupidly paid $16-17 for an album that came with 12 songs when I could put 20-22 songs on a CD and the CD cost me a dollar to burn, and all I had to do was setup a bunch of MP3s to download and then go play some football outside for a couple hours with some periodic checking to make sure the connection didn’t break. Either way, I had methods of pausing downloads so I could have like 20 of them lined up and ready to go, and it’d even shutdown the PC (and the internet usage) when it was done. Pretty classy.
In my more recent buying spree since last Summer, I have been buying up music like crazy. I hear a good song or group, I buy the album no matter the cost because I am still constantly looking for new music. In going back and looking for songs for my phone, I did a lot of organization and saw all of the old music fads I had. I remember I was, at one point, obsessed with John Williams and even some weird stuff. I found albums Dad had around the house from back when I was even younger and saw the crazy stuff I listened to. Can you believe I was an 8 year old kid listening to some pretty heavy rock and jumpin’ all over the place dancing to it just to piss my parents off because I felt just that cool?
I even listened to a lot of classical music. Mom told me it was good for me so I, the arrogant child I was, wanted to be so much smarter to impress the ladies. That never worked out in the end. Actually, because of the area I live in, that was counterintuitive. The majoirty of girls here were pretty stupid, and I guess it worked out in the end because I kept out of trouble that way. Technically, being a social outcast has its ups. And all of this on a post about my music collection.
The number of songs last year was not even 4000, so somehow I ended up buying enough music to crank out another 10GB and rack the number up to a whopping 9554 songs. Whatever I did, it must’ve been killer. Heck, I forgot I didn’t have all of this music to choose from until just recently. Since it’s on my PC, I always feel like it’s always been here, but at some point in time, I backed up 3 DVDs worth of music which I assumed as all of it. What’s happened since then? Geez. This is a crapload of songs, and I don’t know what I’d do w/o them. If I felt lucky, I would add in the 8GB of songs I have on Stepmania, but I’m not that daring. I think it would ruin the game for me too so whatever I can do to keep myself playing DDR is always a plus. I mean, my life runs around the thing so making the choice between playing a game that keeps me healthy and sociable over having a larger music library becomes much much easier that way.
Kevin out in the old fashioned style yo!
=D
When I was at Nick’s house last Tuesday, I decided to buy $300 worth of MIDI samples. I must say, they’re extremely high quality. While I was installing all 5 sample sets (3 vintage sets and 2 techno), I played more of Metroid Prime 3. That inspired me.
Here, you’ll hear what 7 minutes of composing did after listening to Metroid Prime 3. Too bad I don’t have time tonight to work on this a bit more, but it’s kinda neat!
I bought another copy of Half-Life 2 that I’m giving away. Who wants it?
Watching a horror movie by myself. I dunno how I even came across this trilogy, but I somehow have it on my PC. I’m watching Cube. Currently I’m on the first movie which came out in 1997, but then the other two came out in 2002 and 2004 respectively. Gonna be pretty schweet!
18 Minutes in, and I’m wonderin’ what’s goin’ on.