The I Miss the Old Days Complaint Thread
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Me neither. I don't see any coupon!
This $5 offer. I don't know why I qualified. I ain't special in anyway, I don't belong to any bonus clubs, I don't participate in mathematical quandry sales games, I just visit the store and drool these days. I haven't picked up more than a half dozen <cheap> things over the last couple of years.
Something is stupid again with the forums... it says one new comment by Charlie Judge was the last post.
And although I could finally insert an image into my posts (yay!)
, I now can't delete the one that I inserted.
Stop improving the forum software!
I forgot to get baby carrots to go with the hummus I bought for lunch. I only remembered the carrots as I was on a bus heading away from the grocery store. I was on my way to go to my doctor's office to get a Covid test. I got the results back tonight. (Negative!)
Non-complaint: Music to DAZ by; Stumbled across this YouTube clip of a recording of Saint-Saëns' 4th piano concerto. Typical of Saint-Saëns it has lots of long arpeggios. Just the way I like to play.
And that piece was one of my favorites to try to learn. This piano concerto only has two movements instead of the typical three. I'm just a frustrated amateur and I didn't do so well learning the 1st movement, but I did learn the first 3/4 of the 2nd movement (up to 5:28) quite well. The rough part was, of course, the finale. I couldn't keep up the speed and building complexity. For me, the 2nd movement truely begins with the simple direct declaration of the theme at 1:38. It's my favorite part. It's that extremely difficult
(snicker) part that begins at 1:38 for 20 seconds, then repeats at 2:14 to 2:31. Actually, after I'd bought the sheet music, I started learning the piece at that point. Wonderful melody. It grows, gets more complicated, gets expounded upon by the orchestra, hides, then reappears ghostly a couple times then triumpantly mature at the end. I still to this day, find myself whistling the basic melody absent mindedly. Enjoy.
Camille Saint-Saëns, 4th Piano Concerto, 2nd movement:
Yes, I have no Covid.
...seems that banner went to some people and not others. I got a banner for 50% off a DO item yesterday (Thursday).but not one that said just 5$.
...I have no Covid today.
I have sniffles,some sneezing
arhtiris and tinnitus
and many other ailments I can't name
But Yes I have no Covid
I have no Covid today!
Front page ad says, "This will blow your mind!" Without a video showing it, mind is not blown, simply unimpressed and moving on.
Dana
I am no longer in my thirties.
Happy 40th birthday
I am still in my thirties (until April 15th)
I'm not in my thirties anymore either... that ship sailed long ago... it may have sunk actually, if I recall correctly there was definitely smoke and possibly fire and a good chance there was an explosion too.
I'm not entirely sure I remember my thirties that well... a lot of work and tiredness blurred my brain's recording mechanisms... I vaguely recall still being able to buy Hi-C Ecto Cooler... there was this thing called the Macarena and Tickle Me Elmo was either a popular toy or someone who ran for office... Oh and going to Blockbuster Video and not being able to find anything popular just documentaries about the making of popular movies I couldn't ever seem to rent... I miss Blockbuster Video... actually I hate Blockbuster Video, I miss that it took up the space at the strip mall where there is now a fitness club popular with wealthy people who can't drive, or park or apparently even walk straight... Driving my 72' Pontiac Catalina 120 miles back and forth to work every day... getting stabbed straight through my hand... by me... oh crap, I forgot, I got married... no wait, that was in my late twenties... mid twenties... I got married, I'm sure of that... Most of the 90s were a terrible blur... honestly, the 80s are less fuzzy and they were way crazier... Wait... I was in my thirties when my daughters were born... yeah... that explains a lot of the memory loss.
Maybe my thirties weren't all that bad.
I texted my mum about Couch Dungy. Apparently he was never a couch.
Certainly never a couch. Just a player and then a coach
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Dungy
Mum is back home, annnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnd she's back to not eating. We need to hire a strict ward matron.
No biopsy, and still no (official) diagnosis. The whole situation is hard to stomach in general. But this... This is something else.
..c-c-c-cold this morning until just after noon here, temps low to mid thirties (F) with frozen water from the sky mixed in with the icy cold rain.
Can't wait until May.
You could be in someone else's thirties. This has happened to me. Meanwhile, my brother's child works at the same place as me and people there think we're the same age. We can't figure out if I look younger than I am or if niece looks older than she is. Anyway, there are people there who are full grown adults and have never used a CD player. Late last year, I got my first new car ever and I realized it has no place to put a CD in. It took me some time to realize this because the thought never occured to me to try to play a CD. I don't know where I'm going with this.
I for one will miss the CD after it passes into technological history.
Yeah, it's a little bulky in comparison to a microSD card or the zero effective size of downloaded bits.
But it's been a good tool for me for the last 40 years.
I won't get into the snobbish, unprovable, preference for vinyl records (oops I just did), because I lived with vinyl for 30 years. And believe me, it ain't that great unless you like pops & clicks despite your fevered attention to brushes, anti-static sprays, microfiber cloths, obscenely expensive turntables, pickup cartridges with super elliptical diamond needles, and the necessity of actually touching the totally unprotected, delicate, media surface with ANYTHING, much less a pointy diamond, even with only a half-gram of pressure.
And regardless of the claim that vinyl "sounds better", if there is any difference, it will be only on the first few plays, and only dogs or humans under the age of 13, or self-deluded wishful thinkers, will be able to hear it. IMHO vinyl is overrated. ♫Yes I have no black-vinyl, I have no black-vinyl today.♫
But back to CDs. I started collecting CDs in the early '80s. Whew, they were expensive in the early days.
$30 was not an unusual price. In the early '80s that would be equivalent to about $90 today.
I had a good paying job in Washington DC at the time but still thought CDs were expensive. However, compared to vinyl LPs they were head and shoulders better in producing clean, wide range sound (and I had a damn good audio system back then). I now have three storage boxes full of CDs. About 90% classical, and 10% '60s & '70s rock (think Beatles, The Who, Moody Blues & bands of that time & ilk). Yeah, yeah, I've RIP'd the bits from the CDs and converted them to MP3 or WMP formats and play them through my computer and TV and phone and MP3 player (yes, I even have an old-school MP3 player) these days, but bits are bits, their source doesn't matter to final playing quality.
But at the end of the day (last 40 years), I have my three boxes of CDs all neatly catalogued and ready to donate to some forgotten dusty library or museum after I shuffle off this mortal coil.
I have well over 1,000 CDs and still play them (though the player is getting bolshy - it sometimes takes half-a-dzen goes to recognise that a disc has been inserted, and has more than 0 tracks lasting 00:00)
I don't think I have that many, perhaps 350 or 400, but I did stick a portable CD player & headphones into the box just in case. So, when finally discovered, they'll at least have something to try to play them on. If electricity is still popular.
I was forced to give away my cd player/Bluetooth speaker last year and I still don't know why?
I have 3 boxes of records and need to buy a record player/turntable so I can play them. I completely agree that CDs sound much better than vinyl. For me, the reason I got into CDs is because the player wouldn't "eat" them the way cassette or 8-track players(shudder) would. Anyway, the records are from my highschool years and I never replaced them all with CDs or streaming music purchases.
I have an unlimited subscription on Amazon Music, so no need for hard copies for any mp3 they have.
Right now I have a subscription to Apple Music. I somehow got Apple Music player installed on my iPad.
I have a collection of video tapes. I started with a Beta deck. then i got a VHS deck. Then I realized that beta had a better image, even at the slow speed. Then I had money so I got a SuperBeta, and then a SuperVHS. I recorded TV shows I liked a lot, movies on HBO and Showtime, live comedy events, live concerts, Full Contact Karate on ESPN, and even music videos on MTV and VH1. I cringe when I think of all the money I spent on blank Maxell tapes. At first, blank tapes were expensive. Then they went down as the higher grade tapes came out. Then they also went down in price. I had over 600 VHS tapes and over 400 beta tapes, recorded by me. Plus some commercially recorded movies and such. Some years ago, after we bought our house, I gave away some of the tapes. I still have lots of them, though. I need to start going through them and getting rid of them.
Modern receivers don't even have proper connections for tape players. The one I have, I got in 2001 or a little earlier. It still has plenty of RCA inputs and outputs, and Optical Digital audio capability. And S-Video inputs (and one output) for the video tape players. I used to get good quality video with my 41" Sony rear projection TV with the S-Video tech. Now I have a 53" Sony flat panel HDTV that's really nice. My nephew gave it to us a few years ago.
Dana
I used to have a couple storage boxes of LPs (which isn't really very many). Classical and 60s & 70s rock, but when I left Washington in 2002 I'd replaced my favorites with CDs and put my box of LPs into auction along with all my furniture and lots of my most valuable collectables, and my piano.
Sucks being broke for long periods of time.
The only LP I ever had that might have been worth something was the original "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" album. Somebody I trusted, stole if from me many years earlier. 
I found a way to watch Bills play in the snow on my iPad. There is more than one Bill, so they are Bills.
I thought that if you have more than one bill, you're an odd duck.