Ariendor.net The Endless Road

It has been over a month...time for another blog I guess.

Life in general remains mostly routine, not a whole lot has changed in the day-to-day. Nevertheless, I cannot help but feel content.

Hopefully, I will start drum lessons soon.

I've been out recording some more stock footage for my steadily-growing sound effects library. Soon, I will have a fair amount of audio editing work on my plate for a film project. More on that in a later blog post.

Anyway, that's about it.

Prices on computer components just keep falling.

I just bought an additional 4GB of DDR2 RAM for my audio workstation. And I could get 4GB of Corsair DDR2 for my laptop for about $70.

This is getting ridiculous...but in a very GOOD way. :P

I am very lazy sometimes. The chore could involve almost no work, it could be sitting right next to me, and I wouldn't always do it. As much as I try to figure out why, I cannot seem to determine how my motivation gets so misplaced.

Other people deal with this too from time to time; I wonder how they cope with it and motivate themselves...

A few days ago, I arrived at the polls to vote for the California primary elections. I had just signed in when one of the ladies there said "Is this your first election?". I was a bit confused, so I responded, "No, this is about my 5th or 6th time voting." At which point everyone started laughing and the lady said, "What, did you start voting when you were 11 or something?"

Apparently, I don't look 24. My own Mother even says I look young for my age and could possibly pass as a high school senior. I just wish people didn't have to be so rude. :(

Happy 2008 everyone.

We went to see a Brian Regan comedy show tonight at the Thousand Oaks civic arts plaza. I don't think I have laughed as hard as I did for a long time. The entire show, with the exception of one short skit was completely new and by far some of Brian's funniest work. And nothing beats seeing him in person, with all the hilarious facial expressions and voices.

At the end for the encore, he took a few requests for some of his well-known routines and he delivered them with some additional improv and they were far funnier than the first time I had heard them.

Notes to self:

* Windows XP setup tends to die/BSOD if you try to boot and install from a SATA CD-ROM drive running through AHCI or southbridge RAID.

* Windows XP is STILL a pain to install due to requiring either a floppy disk or a cumbersome slipstream to get custom RAID controller drivers installed.

Hopefully soon I will succeed in making Windows XP actually INSTALL correctly.

Sad thing is: Vista doesn't have these same problems (except Vista has a whole load of its own problems).

Let it be known that, the term "Bytes" is abbreviated as "B". Not "b".

"b" is the abbreviation for "bits", and a bit is only 1/8th of a byte.

Also, the prefix "mega" is abbreviated "M", not "m". ("m" is short for milli)

So if you want to refer to "Megabytes", use "MB" (or "MiB"). Don't use "mb" or "Mb" as they DO NOT MEAN THE SAME THING as "MB".

It's crazy how many people mess these unit abbreviations up... :P

This pet-peeve-inspired rant now draws to a close. Thanks for listening.

I just bought a laptop.

It's all part of the plan for world domination eventually getting a small recording rig up and running.

A month has gone by since I last blogged. I am still unsure why I didn't write anything during that time; I guess not enough happened, or maybe too many things happened.

But there are a few things for which I am thankful, namely...

I am now 100% debt free. I got the university loans paid in June, and last week I paid my parents that last little bit I owed them.

Two good friends (Shawn and Jessie) just got married. It is truly a wonderful thing to witness the two choosing to spend their life together. My best wishes to them.