Family went to a garage sale and got a laptop for ten bucks. Nice model, mind you - hp, with about seventy-five gigs. But whoever owned it was rather stupid. I don't know if it was just the kids who mucked it up but oh man it is messed up badly. I can use it a bit and even browse on internet explorer or firefox, but after a few minutes, the browser decides to just stop working and I have to restart said browser. And it seems the damn thing has some viruses thanks to the kiddies playing around with it... but that doesn't explain why the contents of almost the entire hard drive were hidden.
But other than that it is just an awesome computer. I feel like I've been given an expensive car for five bucks.
I might be getting that computer to use for when I would really love to be out and about instead of chained to the desk with my Toshiba(the display on the monitor works fine but the backlight is shot. Gotta learn how to fix that one without hosing the whole thing.
And tonight I listened to Weird Al's entire Alpocalypse album streamed online. Gotta get that album because man oh man this is the first Weird Al CD since "Running With Scissors" in which I've found every song as enjoyable as the last. On Poodle Hat, a lot of the parodies were kinda meh... as were quite a few of the originals, though honestly many of them have grown on me, especially "Wanna B UR Lover", thanks to seeing Al perform it live and oh man I wish I was in the audience. Would totally try to hug him again. And "Why Does This Always Happen To Me" is probably my favourite song from that album, because it helps put a lot of inconveniences and plain bad days in perspective. Straight Outta Lynwood is better, and has quite a few awesome songs including "Close, But No Cigar" which helped me through some relationships that went sour.
Alpocalypse has really amazed me though. I mean, at first I thought "Skipper Dan" would be filler but man it has helped me out when I've been all depressed over being underemployed and even harassed at work. I used to be on top but now I'm at the bottom. Sometimes I feel like I'm being hugged, and it ain't the first time this has happened - "One More Minute", "You Don't Love Me Anymore" and "I was Only Kidding" have given me that same feeling when I've been dealing with relationships that had gone sour. Original songs like the ones mentioned really show a lot of serious depth behind the funny lyrics. Even "If That Isn't Love" has helped me realize that I need to find someone else. Wish I could meet Al and tell him in person just how much his songs have helped and comforted me.
Also gotta tear myself away from Master of Orion and get to doing some more art. *is a dork*
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