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A Saturday Well Spent

Things I did Today:

-Checked this out:


-Watched Star Wars, Ep. IV&V on a super nice 57 inch tv
-Beat Mario 3. Again.

Edit: I did not create that postcard. Ames Bros did. and I'm trying to get my hands on a poster...

Quotes of the Week + Top Five

Both while at my second to last day of work at Target. Not Direct quotes, but as close as I remember.

Tim, Head of the Tacoma Target, in regards of my saying I moved from OK: "That has to be one of the ugliest places, well anywhere in the panhandle." Sure, I admit, OK can be pretty, but it's mostly it's colorful skies. Overall....it's mostly brown there.

Josh, backroom coworker, after I told him I'm a Mac user, and then giving me the worst excuse in the world not to own a Mac: "I could never get into Macs and only having one mouse button."

This being the New Year, I'm taking it upon myself to put more ideas into action. Mostly writing them all down for future reference, as some of my ideas are more long term than a month or a year. and also going to pull a High Fidelity and start Top Five lists. Todays:

Top Five Things to Accomplish This Year
1. Get a job: or a steady cash flow
2. Get out of this house and into my own!
3. Get to Canada: Not really an accomplishment, but something I want to do this year.
4. Release an album. Haven't gotten all the details worked out, but will more than likely be a digital ep.
5. Start planning my own Design Studio. I don't plan to have everything worked out by the end of the year, but I want to start a list of 'to do's' as well as a guideline of what I need to do make it work.

2009

I have yet to come up with a plan for 2009, as far as 'resolutions' are concerned. Just trying to fix one thing at a time. This week's agenda: my external hard drive. Which apparently I was right in the assumption of my files being there. Data Rescue was able to see most of them (after like a 10 hour scan), but they are catagorized by file type. So I guess my directory file is corrupt and not sure if I can get any of my folders/file names/organization back. And I had everything on my hard drive. This is going to be a very time consuming project. and I am not even sure what is or isn't there, so I'm very reluctant to wipe the drive clean just yet. Just going to take every measure to get those files before I just reformat it. I do have the 'recovered' files copied over to a newly bought external, but I'm not sure how I'm ever going to find anything, at least for next couple months. Luckily, I had backed up my Nikon D80 photos (Jan-Oct) and December is on my hard drive, so November is the only month that is limbo. I am also not sure about the status of my design files or my music. Which I had an extensive library so that will take a long while to get back. An ever frustrating situation, but it's the new year and I'm going to do my best to just move foreword.

Top Albums of 2008

These are my picks for 2008. I realize everyone has their own tastes and opinions regarding music, so I will withhold any statements regarding bands that aren't on my lists. But I feel like I've scanned a lot of music this year, and these are basically the ones that have stayed consistent on the playlist.

Top Ten
1. The New Frontiers-Mending
2. Bon Iver-For Emma, Forever Ago
3. This Town Needs Guns-Animals
4. Nada Surf-Lucky
5. M83-Saturdays=Youth
6. Alaska in Winter-Holiday
7. Thrice-Vol. III & Vol. IV
8. Sigur ros-Med sud I eyrum vid spilum endalaust
9. Mates of State-Re-Arrange Us
10. Tokyo Police Club - Elephant Shell

Honorable Mentions
Mike Hale-Broken With No Hope
School of Seven Bells-Alpinisms
Jesu-Why Are We Not Perfect?
Brendan Canning-Something for All of Us...
The Middle East-The Recordings of The Middle East

Top Ten Instrumental
1. This Will Destroy You-This Will Destroy You
2. Russian Circles-Station
3. A.Armada-Anam Cara
4. Bitcrush-Epilogue
5. Ef-I am Responsible
6. Pivot-O, Soundtrack My Heart
7. Lymbyc Systym-Love Your Abuser Remixed
8. Matthew Robert Cooper - Minatures
9. Frakkur-Songs for the Little Boy
10. pg.lost - It's Not Me, It's You

Honorable Mentions
Mogwai-The Hawk is Howling
El Ten Eleven-These Promises Are Being Videotaped
Lakes of Russia-Stars Decorate The Fire
This is Your Captain Speaking-Eternal Return
The American Dollar-A Memory Stream

Top EPs
1. From Monument to Masses - Beyond God & Elvis
2. This Will Destroy You/Lymbyc Systym- Field Studies EP
3. Thursday/Envy Split
4. Envy/Jesu Split
5. Moving Mountains-Foreword

Honorable Mention
Minus the Bear-Acoustics

Oh, AT&T

...and your outrageous cellphone bill. This week is just not working out too well.


On the sidenote, I might be able to get my external hard drive files back. or some of them. Been non-stop, trying to remedy that situation.

Oh, External Hard Drive

I just spent 3.5 hours trying to get my now unmountable external hard drive to mount to my computer. An apparent technological plague has hit the Lee family-Mike's computer died (but might be fixed with a power supply), my parents computer crashed and officially is irrepairable and now my external hard drive (all my files!) seems to not cooperate with me.


I officially hate this week.