So, I formatted Tichondrius yesterday. He’s all shiny and FAST now. And IE doesn’t give some stupid error when I close it. Not that I use IE much – but it’s nice not to have that anyways. The taskbar also doesn’t disappear randomly when I try to open Windows Explorer now. LOL. It’d been like 42 weeks or something since I’d last reformatted so it really was time for it. What shits me though, is that everytime I reformat there’s always *something* I forget. This time, it wasn’t really that I forgot, more that I didn’t back up thoroughly. Normally I archive all my e-mails and contacts… This time, I did that but didn’t check that it had got all my e-mails. It seems it only archived up to 19/09/05 and not to yesterday (which is what I told it to do). I really should have checked it. So yeah, if there’s an important e-mail you’ve sent me in the last 6 months… I don’t have it anymore. You’re more than welcome to re-send it :P In fact, I’d probably really appreciate it *slaps head*.
Hrm, to add to my memory woes, I left my wallet at home today. This was slightly annoying as I had no money for the bus so I called my dad to pick me up. More annoying than that, I couldn’t buy a drink at lunch. No sugar!
I’ve been playing DJ Max Portable (as previously mentioned) and I’ve been able to get to Stage 4. Completed a few songs at 5 difficulty, so I’m pretty happy :D I’m having a lot of trouble with the combinations that require one button to be held whilst tapping two others – it just requires too much co-ordination that I don’t have. Recently I talked to ConMan about DDR and how you could possibly follow all those steps with a difficulty of 8 feet. Anyways, he was explaining that you don’t really see the arrows and think “have to press right” or “have to press left”. You sort of just see combinations and the stuff streams. I think I understand that more now, having played this game, because I’m no longer just looking at one note as it’s coming down the screen, I’m looking at 4 or 5 notes to see what’s coming next.
I’ve also found an alternative use for this game. Yesterday, I went for a run in my local park. Normally I bring my Neeon so I’ve got music to listen to. But it was out of batteries. So I thought, no worries I’ll my other USB MP3 player. Except that needs AAA batteries and luck would have it that I have none at home. So what did I resort to? My MD. My MD!! Gosh, MD technology. Anyways, it’s still working fine :D and that mix disc I created is still good :P Certainly made my run pretty fun listening to all these old songs I haven’t heard in ages. Anyways, as I was mucking around with DJ Max Portable last night, I found that it has an “OST” and “Vids” mode, where you can listen to and watch the videos of the songs that the game uses. This is pretty cool, and seeing as the PSP was the only thing that was charged I listened to cutesy pop music on the way to and from work. Not bad at all.
Other than that, I don’t have much to say. I haven’t felt very social or talkative lately. Not sure why. I haven’t been very happy, and that’s understandable I suppose. I know that I’m bottling or whatever, but I think it’s more just that, I don’t have anything good to say. And moreso, I know that whatever I’m going to say is probably something I’ve said before, or just re-iterating how I feel so what’s the point? That feeling hasn’t changed and going on and on about it is only going to bore those who are willing to listen anyways. Partly I think it’s also because sometimes I’ve really wanted to talk to someone, and the response I’ve gotten was “yeah, yeah” and then *big long rant about their problems*. And that’s fine – I get that other people have their gripes too, but at least acknowledge mine. I guess when that happens you just sort of think, why should I bother trying to express how I feel if you’re not even listening? I don’t expect you to fix my problems, or even tell me a solution. That’s for me to find out. But if no one’s listening, then I’m not talking.
