Musings: Music, Lost 80s, The Horrible Past, etc

Another musing post so soon?  Does that mean the end times are upon us?  Not necessarily, but i cannot totally discount that possibility.  Maybe my end is the one rapidly approaching.  One reason is that i post here, so that it won't show some other related Blogger thing i might have.  Seriously, you don't want to see that mess (yet i link it at the end of this post, go figure).

* i've been really into this Lost 80s channel on iHeart Radio.  "Alexa play Lost 80s on iHeart Radio".  It plays hits that may not show up on today's radio.

Many radio stations have playlists under 40 songs.  This one seems a little more robust.  Most of the songs were hits in their time.  Even retro stations (the best of the 80s and 90s) feel like they are just picking a playlist off of one or two compilation disks.

They play some songs i haven't heard for a while (like Bad Boy by Miami Sound Machine).  Sure, i probably have more songs on CD than they do, but it feels a little different to hear it on the radio (maybe a Gen X thing).  

i suspect the Lost 80s playlist is limited but seems to have more songs than most stations.  Yes, i hear repeats, but they are not as common as most radio.  Did i mention it is commercial (not interruption) free?

i'm lame and listen to retro radio - modern music is soulless crap that kind of sucks.  i learned about this station from an 80s radio show (Saturdays nights, a 4 hour or so block) with Jeff Stevens.  If it were on later, i would probably listen to American Top 40: the 80s with Shaggy, i mean Casey Kasem.  There are a ton of good songs that never get modern radio airplay (rendering them effectively lost).

What does it say that i mostly use my Echo dot for radio type uses.  As Robbie Nevil might say "C'est La Vie"

More Random Musings: Dream Girl, Post Milestone, Etc

i decided to look under my bed and get rid of some of the dust.  Dust, spiders, and insects.  i have been going through a couple of old notebooks i found in a box.

* Most relationships are borne out of a sense of mutual convenience (or meeting certain needs), but what if it was deeper?

i say i don't believe in fate/predestination - but the thing that frightens me is the concept that certain people are inexplicably/inextricably linked.  What if there really is "the one"/soulmate and you screwed it up?  That concept terrifies me - i could have missed out on "the one" due to timing, location, or just being in over my head at the time and i could never recapture that again.  Failure states suck.

Wouldn't it be strange if your "soul mate's" emotionally state could, or does, impact you?  If their desires could somehow transfer to you at random times.  Though, it would really suck knowing that you wouldn't be the one who fulfills them.

Crunchyroll Anime Binge Part 2: Binge Lesser

So, i got 3 months of Crunchyroll via Amazon Prime again.  The same issues still exist missing dubs/subs, missing episodes, misplaced episodes, etc.  It is getting harder and harder to find and watch some of the back catalog of Crunchyroll, so this time i rewatched several series.  i did finish off a few Spring Season shows (some i was waiting for the season to end to list or forgot).

Weak, arrogant, and obsessed characters (battle junkies, magic junkies, etc) tick me off more and more as time goes by.  i don't want to see the hero MC or his party crying (or being whiny at all).  i am not a fan of "revenge" stories (as they said in Trapped in a Dating Sim - the best revenge is being happy).

Random Musings Today: Stuff?

Another random musing post.  Let's see what has been weak the last few weeks...

* Coming off of 3 months of Crunchyroll streaming/binging (three month each for $.99 ended about a week ago).  Maybe another post on that one.  At some point, you are scraping the bottom of the barrel and stuff is less interesting.  i did rewatch a few shows this time.  Still about 7 Spring Season shows i'd like to finish at some point in the future (to, the extent i have one).

 * Puzzles: finished six 1,000-piece puzzles in about 12 days.  It is getting harder to do (questionable lighting, harder to discern color differences, dropping pieces on the floor, etc).  So many whites, grays, and browns.  Two were "mystery puzzles" - the puzzle is not the picture on the box (makes things a bit harder).

Puzzle tip: sorting plays a big role in completion time.  It is better to set asides pieces for certain blocks of the puzzle (like flowerbeds, or prominent features) then "take it as it comes".  One puzzle (from China) had the section written on the back (A-F).  i think that one took less than 6 hours.

i sold 8 puzzles at the yard sale for $1 each.  i already have two puzzles in hand for next Winter Solstice.

Random Musings: A Very Gen X Yard Sale, Birthday, etc

Time for another random musing - hold your applause until the end.

* My sister decided to have a yard sale yesterday (she actually was working on it for about a month).  A yard sale is a lot of work for little payoff (unless you have some awesome stuff, or very specific buyers).  You find the items, get them out, "warehouse" them until the event, price them, and try to sell them. Then if your stuff doesn't sell, back to the closet with it.

i decided if she was going to have a yard sale, that i might as well throw a couple of things in.  Ok, maybe a couple is a bit of a misstatement (i have almost 11 pages of tables in Word, two columns landscape orientation).  My "couple of things" were mostly video games, board games, and puzzles. 

The stuff a Gen Xer or an older millennial might have in their closets: video games (Xbox, Dreamcast, Nintendo DS, Xbox 360, Nintendo Wii), a few too many games based off the 80s (the best decade), and some pop culture references familiar to that generational cohort.  i did have 4 versions of Trivial Pursuit and a VH1 Pop Up Video Game.  i even had a Mr. Potato Head called "Taters of the Lost Ark".

Random Musings Today: Birthdays, Anime, etc

 i decided to muse randomly today, i know it has been a while (March 2nd).

Birthdays:

Once you hit 25, is there anything to really celebrate anymore?  Congratulations, you're one year closer to death.  Why would anyone want to live to 100 years old?  Have they seen 70–100-year-olds who are constantly taking pills, and whose senses (vision, hearing, etc) and joints are shot.

My paternal aunt has a repetitive birthday song - it starts with "we're glad you're not one.  We're glad you're not two".  It then goes up to the age the person is (x to n, where n is the current age).  i estimated that my alleged mother's recent birthday would have taken over 6 minutes to get to her age.

My Ideal Messed Up World

My reality is unsatisfying and disappointing.  The "modern world" is layers of abstraction stacked on top of each other.  Sometimes, technological dependence can seem more like an albatross than a boon.  Life was never meant to be a subscription service.

On the surface, there are more choices, but is that really a good thing?  Today is full of psuedo-decisions that are more programmed responses than actual conscious decisions.  There can be so many theoretical branching impacts of decisions that it can cause decision paralysis (where few decisions are actually made).  Most choice is little more than illusion.  In some ways, i think less options and more "real decisions" would be far preferable.

Idle wondering when i couldn't sleep led me to think what my warped view of a more perfect world would be.  i got another $1.99 each for 3 months deal on Crunchyroll, so that tempered my view a little (a lot of fantasy/medieval period type shows).