A beginning

Alanis Morrisette 'Jagged Litle Pill' turned up in the post yesterday

fancied listening to it today in my travels

so
Ripped CD to my PC
had to download a file converter (cause windows media player stores it as a WMA )
coverted it and loaded it onto my MP3

bought, paid for and the start of a new legitimate music collection

kinda nice

going to be digging out all my CD's soon and doing the same then start replacing the music I deleted at the weekend

Me?

something I realised before Christmas

I stopped collecting things some time ago

Theres a certain evel of involvement in actually collecting which is easy to forget in an electronic world where I could spend a few days and 'collect' every book, audio play, Episode, Movie, Comic, and song that I ever wanted for free

But thats not collecting

Just now a friend (on facebook and I think I've ended up drinking with a few times in the Tap ages ago) who has great taste in music put an Alanis Morissette track on FB and I do the usual 'oh when was the last time I listened to her' and then thought about the fact that I watched Live Aid from my bedroom at my grans all the way through live, I grew up in the 80's at time when the greatest music in the world was written and performed

but everyone thinks that the music they listened to when they grew up was the greatest music ever

and the songs were more often than not about protesting something

against politicians, about gay rights, about famine in africa about seemingly dozens of great causes that I was sorta into at the time but only because my friends were but now realise were and still are massively important.

so back to the point - I have over the years 'collected' massive amounts of stuff but never sat there and thought 'I wonder if Alanis Morrisette is still making music?'

I just load up my MP3 and go off to work or a game or the pub and never ask about the stuff I'm listening to

It's empty - it's false - it's not me, not any more

Hang on a second........


I just deleted 214GB of 'collected' music

and ordered Jagged Little Pill (Alanis Morrisette at her greatest) from an ebay trader with over 280,000 deals under their belt with a 98% positve feedback for the grand sum of

£1.52 on CD

I want to be the person I used to like and respect someone who laughed a lot more than I do these days the person who didn't second guess everything he did the person who had a damn sight more self respect than I find I have

no more blame games - I am responsible for my life and I am answerable to me and the people whose opinions of me matters

this is a start

I'm going to start reading 5E this weekend and and then I'm going to write a campaign based in the Forgotten Realms

After that campaign I will know the system enough and refresh my fantasy reffing brain enough so I can write my own world

In March I am going to register for an Arts and Humanities level 1 course with the OU
after I pass that I will be able to do a level 2 creative writing course

haven't thought about things further than that yet

and I will properly collect the things I am deleting in one format or another and I will be true to myself

oh and I need to learn about cloud storage and if itunes is any good

Night all

2015 and the Path

I have always had a lot of hobbies and the bill for maintaining the collections I have is sometimes quite large

So it is with some reluctance that I had to proritise things (unless I win the lottery in that case Whoa Nelly!!)

So at the end of Feb (no council tax month) I am buying a 1 year subscription to the Docto Who monthly range from Big Finish - this is quite expensive but saves me £50 over the year in CD's for that range

At the end of March (all going to plan I am getting a PS4)

RPG book purchases are reduces to 1 a month for the White Wolf Collection and new releases for systems I am actually writing or running at that time - right now that is Cthulhu and DND 5e

Comics are reduced to my standing order (unless I come across a deal on a run on Ebay or charity shops etc)

There will be slow acumulation of Doctor Who cd's not included in the Main Range and books/novels/comics etc if they appear

I will be trying to save, be responsible and go out with the remaining funds

And occasional Ebaying will generate funds for stuff outside this plan

January wages already allocated for some damage control for post Christmas poverty and to play a little catch up on Big Finish before the subscription is bought

Flat decoration will be slower than I planned but should still be possible to complete before years end

and I have a few events in mind for later in the year

right then off we go