Quick Hits: Hello Friday The 13th

On 03/13/2020 at 01:37 PM by goaztecs

So get this: earlier this morning, around 4am I get up to use the bathroom, and went I get back to bed I hear this faint beep-beep-beep-beep. I’m barely awake so I’m looking around to see if I turned on the TV (you would think the glow of the TV in a dark room would be the first clue I would look for, but I’m again half asleep). It’s not on, so I peak out of the window because the HOA put out an email about people getting into the neighborhood and stealing cars. I wanted to know if some yahoo was doing some kind of computer wizardry on the truck. It was still there, and now I’m awake. Is it the crazed car steeling gang? Is it aliens? Is it aliens who are in a crazed car steeling gang? I stayed up until 6am when I just fell asleep. The faint beep-beep-beep-beep sound would come in and out but stopped around 5ish. Thinking about it now especially with the rhythm of the beeps I think it was someone’s alarm clock across the little park/retaining basin. Also I have a lot of neighbors who go to work around 4:30am….or it’s that crazed car steeling gang.

I would like to say I watched a ton of new content this past week but I’d be lying. I decided to sit and watch an episode of the Maury Show. You know the show….”YOU ARE THE FATHER” *someone then dances*. I don’t think I’ve ever sat down and watched it but it’s 45 minutes of just that. After the first two I lost interest. Also why is everyone yelling? Even during the video packages.

The Office - Netflix: I’m almost done with Season 4. I can pretty much tell you what happens in seasons 1-3, but 4 and on I really don’t remember. I do know I made sure to watch the big episodes when they aired but basically after 4, it is kinda new to me.

I have a queue full of shows that I haven’t seen, there are a bunch of movies on the various movie channels and streaming services I haven’t seen, yet I watch The Office…Oh and last night I watched The Cutting Edge. You know the movie where the hockey player and the figure skater become the most dominant figure skating duo at the Olympics. That movie. I own it, yet I watched it on I think HBO.

In music I decided to put the shuffling of MP3s/AAC files on hold so I can fill up my music player with good ol’ FLAC. I found that have 20k mp3/aac songs on it was more of a chore so I went with FLAC because the SQ icon appears for evey song and having to deal with 5k or so songs I like is a lot more fun. Of course it comes down to me doing the dance of I have so much room and then quickly realize that around the letter L I’m running out of space and I know I want to include a bunch of artists from the letter T but I know that there are a lot of songs from the Movie Soundtrack folder that should make the cut. Yeah it’s insane especially since that the other music player will have podcasts and I will probably listen to more of that than anything else. The same old story with me.

Pickups:

Games

I bought this game on a whim while scrolling through Reddit

It was $2, it looks like a fun little clone of your typical Guitar Hero/Rockband like game with classical music.

Music

So last weekend I went looking for this card store that is apparently 8 miles from the house. I needed to buy some boxes and penny sleeves and Hobby Lobby wasn’t cutting it. I went and at the time they were supposed to be open, they were closed so I went to the thrift store across the street and found cool stuff like a game used IHL All Star Jersey for $15, random Washington Huskies Letterman jacket also for $15, but I was there for CDs and I left with these albums

Big Mountain - Wake Up

Various Artists - Bullfight Music From Spain

Mariachi Reyes de Aserrado - Sones de Jalisco

Andy Grammer - Andy Grammer

Avicii - True

Big Mountain and Avicii were full price at $2 each, everything else was $1. Big Mountain replaces the cassette single of Touch My Light, I’ve always picked up music about Bull Fighting (I like the horns…get it horns. I’ll see myself out), Andy Grammer replaces the iTunes single of Keep Your Head Up I bought years ago, and Avicii replaces the Google Play copy of this album.

Jersey

So after I got my whooping cough shot I decided to stop at the Marshall’s and look around before grabbing breakfast. I found this

I now own another USMNT authentic jersey. This is their 2018 jersey. Also the breakfast burrito was really good.

Alright Pixlpeeps I am off. Have a good weekend!

That’s all for now, more later!

-Chris

Super Step Contributing Writer

03/13/2020 at 07:07 PM

It was my alarm in Texas ... needs to be pretty loud for me to wake up.

goaztecs

03/18/2020 at 12:02 PM

Man everything is bigger AND louder in Texas.

Ranger1

03/14/2020 at 06:24 PM

When I was still living in Portland (the original one in Maine, not the reboot in Oregon), some idiot in the neighborhood's car alarm would go off every single night at 3 AM. I repeat: every single night. This went on for far longer than it should, culminating in a large group of neighbors from all over the neighborhood standing around the car in their jammies or sweats and calling the police with the car blaring in the background. I know, because I was one of them. The cops showed up and told us all to go home, they'd take it from there. Last night it happened, strangely enough.

Oh, and toepick! I own that movie, too. When my friend Gi and I ran the last snowshoe race together, I caught the front of my snowshoe and almost face planted. While I was doing so, I yelled "Toe pick!" and Gi looked at me and said "Did you just say toe pick? Oh my god, I do that, too!"

03/18/2020 at 12:06 PM

Oh if that happened here I would join the group around the car. That is just insane.

HAHAHA oh Toe pick. That movie is gold, the sequal not so much.

03/19/2020 at 02:31 PM

I have zero plans or desire to bother with the sequel. Hollywood can't understand not messing with perfection (or maybe it's beating a dead horse, who knows?)

KnightDriver

03/15/2020 at 12:43 PM

There was a car alarm going off regularly in my neighborhood too. It stopped but it was really annoying for a while. Can't understand what kind of malfunction would cause that.

03/18/2020 at 12:12 PM

I don't get how it doesn't bother the owner of the vehicle. When my car alarm was going off I could hear it in my sleep and it was off in a minute or so.

Matt Snee Staff Writer

03/15/2020 at 01:18 PM

Sometimes my kitchen beeps and it takes a while to figure out what it is.

03/18/2020 at 12:13 PM

The microwave is plotting against you. This is how the Terminator starts.

mothman

03/16/2020 at 11:26 AM

We have a neighbour across from us who was setting off their car alarm and stopping it repeatedly for about a half hour at a time. This went on for months.

We figure it's a mental disorder. It hasn't happened recently but I've probably jinxed it by saying that.

03/18/2020 at 12:37 PM

That has to be annoying but what can you do. Hopefully you didn't jinx it.

PixlBit