Then it ended..

The music project that I have been working on for the past five weeks was completed Saturday night just as it opened up and dumped.. And the sun was still shinning.. It took three weeks to load the music and two weeks to sort it.. The goal was to load just over 32GB of music although it is actually 29GB..  what a rip.. oh well.. Had it been 32GB directly it would have been about two or three GB shy of enough.. Between the duplicates and songs that just weren't what I wanted anymore either through not liking them anymore or outgrowing the group or the songs, I was able to whittle it down to about the 29GB level.. There was a point where I thought about changing the sample rate on certain music to make it all fit but then thought better of it.. If I don't want the songs in the sample rate designated then there is no need to keep it at all.. 128kbps is the absolute lowest to have to tolerate, although that being said I did take the comedy bits down to 80kbps mostly because it was humour.. The classical music became tricky when I took all the music and put them into a single folder, then had to check for duplicates that way.. Not too bright..  As things were getting close to full it took longer and longer for the music to load on to the flashdrive.. It took ten minutes to load two very short songs.. I've never had that happen before..


On the movie front, this weekend saw a  couple of classic movies be watched..  And  a fairly recent movie that was a scary one.. Nevada Smith with Steve McQueen in it.. Very good old classic western movie.. Then there was Deliverance the classic back country movie with what was then a cast of new comers in Ned Beatty, Jon Voight and Burt Reynolds in a very somber movie for him.. I had never seen that movie before only bits and pieces here and there..  Rumor has it with Jennifer Anniston and the great Shirley McClain in a role that fit her perfectly, there weren't very many  times when the one liner didn't hit hard.. Very funny.. And yes it is a romcom but worth watching.. Then there was the scary movie.. The Big Short..  Not scary in content with a lot of blood and gore but rather subject matter.. It was about the real estate failure of 2008 that started the second worse depression in our countries history.. And the saddest part, the bankers who did that  then and got away with it, ARE DOING IT AGAIN.. That's right, they are doing the same exact thing, calling it something else completely different, but are doing it again.  And this time when it fails it will likely be the end of the United States as well as the rest of the world.. But relax, it took from 1980 something until 2008 to happen, it might take that long to happen again.. Write your congressman and tell him/her that you are worried that wallstreet bankers are going to ruin the economy again.. They will likely laugh in your face the way they did to the guys trying to warn of the bubble in the housing market in the movie.. They didn't try to tell but when the main character started to buy "short" everyone just laughed at him..  But if you watch the very early part of the movie, the failing housing market that was starting then was a sign of things to come..  And he knew 2007 would be the start of the end.. It took a whole year for things to completely collapse but the signs were there.. the bankers could have tried to stop it but likely they all just rode the wave thinking it was false... It wasn't...  This was a very good movie and it goes along quite quickly..


Badge Henry