if walls could talk…

if walls could talk…

Dec 13

Sitting here contemplating … well, everything. No one is on aim, and no one is on myspace, as far as I can tell anyway.

I’ve been thinking about people I’ve met throughout the years, acquaintances and such. Maybe about getting in touch, but everyone is so consumed in their own lives, I always wonder whether I’m remembered or not. Probably not – I’d be very surprised to find otherwise. But I know I remember most people, usually later down the line (like now, for example). I guess the less you have to worry about, the more time one gets to be neurotic and overly pensive about nothing useful.

Not much has been going on lately, as usual, but today was sort of crappy.

This morning, after getting dressed for work, the most annoying thing happened as I proceeded to arm myself with my usual devices and pocket stuffers. Last item in my pocket, my [outdated] Sony Clie — slipped out of my hand, somersaulted a few times, leaped off the corner of my desk and landed face down on the hard cold concrete floor of my room. Needless to say, it did not survive the crash.

A new PDA is not something I had planned on purchasing but I have been considering the choices – I just didn’t expect I’d have to actually finalize a decision so soon. At this point, my PDA is integral to my daily routine, especially any time I spend money, need to take a quick note, or look up a phone number or email that’s not on my phone. Luckily, but not surprisingly, the Clie still turns on and hotsyncs, so it’s not a matter of having ‘lost everything’, but I did happen to like my TJ37, since it was top of the line when I bought it a couple of years ago with built in wi-fi, if not doomed because Sony can’t seem to commit to any product for any length of time.

Since I have to retire this one, I’ve decided on the Palm T|X. It was (and still somewhat is) a debate between a Treo 700p and the TX but ultimately ive decided that if I happen to lose (or break) either my phone or my PDA, it’s not as soul crushing as losing both in one fell swoop, because those who know me well, know that I like to have nice things and take care of them well, but I haven’t the best of luck, especially when I’m rushing and being absent minded – I do foolish things. The phrase “Haste Makes Waste” truly applies to me.

Speaking of annoyances, I’m not so pleased with the performance of Firefox 2. I must say it’s much more intuitive than the previous version, however it’s not so stable, and I’m not alone in this. Plus it’s not isolated to windows, since I use firefox 2 on my mac dual core g5 at work, so I’m not sure what that’s all about. seems to be an incompatibility with flash. either way because of the excellent session restore feature built it, an annoyance is not a complete deterrent, it’s still the best browser, if not a great resource hog.

It’s final, I’ve committed to finally getting my tattoo. It’s happening on Friday at 6pm, I can’t wait. Brett Osborne is my artist. I’ve decided that I will try for a dark henna color because after some testing, I have come to the conclusion that even though it’s of course not natural, I want it to look somewhat natural – more at aesthetic. Symmetry and subtlety is what I’m going for in this endeavor, but I will consult with my artist to make sure it will be what I want it to be. oh the excitement.

I think I may be making a compilation cd soon of all my best music… it will probably have to be a 2 cd ordeal since my songs are inherently so long – they have to be in order to achieve their intended effect, though some will probably go under the knife and be shortened (4 measures in most cases will become 2). I guess I’ve finally gotten comfortable enough with my music that I can actually start sharing it, and my new material, though I’m still not entirely happy with it, is fresher than my older material. In particular tracks with nice clean vocals. I have 3 cover songs in the mix as well so someday soon when I wrap those up they’ll be neat additions to the collection. Coming to think of it, I recall adding all of the music (good and bad) I’ve created since 1998 to a playlist, with no duplicates. The total playlist time was about 9 hours – HAHA. the tracks I actually take pride in would probably comprise maybe 4.5 hours of that total time.

i think it’s time to go to sleep in any case because I want to write some really personal things, but eh, it’s not appropriate in a public forum, and really it’s more so just my tired and over-bored (under-socialized) mind running amok.

… if walls could talk, we would all be in serious trouble.

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