Insane Random Ramblings

Wow I’m really surprised. I know that some concerts generally sell out but in the past week, 2 different summer concerts have gone on sale. One concert is scheduled for mid-July and the other is early August. I love summer so it’s not a problem for me and it gives me something to look forward to. It’s just not something I had expected to start seeing yet. I wouldn’t think summer tickets would go on sale before early April but it looks like I’m way off.

Not that I mind. The sooner summer gets here the better for me.

There are about 30 or so songs that I want to add to my mp3 player. Most of the music I was able to rip off of cds or I had the music on my old computer. Most of the new songs that I want, I don’t have at all. I even looked on all of these old mix tapes that I have and they’re not on there either.

Hopefully I’ll be able to find all of the songs that I want.

I turned on the radio this morning and I was so happy to hear regular music again. Two of our local stations went to an all Christmas format and it was getting to be a bit much. One station started the beginning of November and the other station started the day after Thanksgiving. One is a oldies station and the other is a 80’s 90’s and today’s music station.

Considering the fact that there is no R&B station locally and it can be a real drag. There are only 3 good stations and 3 mediocre ones. Then subtract 2 of the mediocre ones and it’s slim pickings in these parts. The most exciting thing on the radio some days was a advertisement for Toto toilets. You know it’s bad when the best thing on the radio is the commercials.

Now if we could only get a R&B station, everything would be perfect.

Back in May Sheridan Broadcasting sold their urban radio station to a Christian broadcasting station. Sheridan cited a changing market as reason for the sale. According to Sheridan, there is a new people meter that measures ratings. In markets where the new system has taken place, Black and Hispanic ratings have gone down 40%. Some say the reason is because the meters aren’t evenly distributed to minorities skewing results. Read the article: here

According to Wikipedia:                                                                                                               “As of 6:07PM EST, Tuesday, September 8, 2009, WAMO-FM 106.7 discontinued broadcasting. Its last song was Boyz II Men’s ‘It’s So Hard to Say Goodbye To Yesterday’, and then silence.”

Read more: http://www.city-data.com/forum/pittsburgh/649982-wamo-sold-10.html#ixzz0QdmmTN7I

Just sad!

I was getting ready to do my regular blogging yesterday when I heard the news. To say I was in shock is pretty much an understatement. I grew up on Michael Jackson and I cried when he got burned doing the Pepsi commercial. All I did last night was watch news coverage in disbelief.

The music world has really lost a legend.

I have one that’s supposed to be a pretty good brand. But it has issues that I don’t like. First the back-light stays on too long which drains the battery. The battery only takes 2 hours to fully charge but then the charge is only good for about 4 hours. If I listen to my player at work all day, it’s dead by the time I go home.

I guess I shouldn’t complain too much since I won it in a contest. You know how those soda companies always have caps to enter codes to win and blah blah blah? Well I wasn’t expecting anything and I actually won. It just showed up on my doorstep one day which was pretty cool.

There’s no need for me to get a memory upgrade for it because don’t really think you can. I  think you have to upgrade to the next size which is 16GB. Oh well, as long as it works I’ll be happy.

I just read a article on UrbanRadio.com. I can’t believe that Sheridan Broadcasting sold the station. Apparently there was a big to-do last Friday on Facebook. Since I’m not on Facebook yet, I missed it. I’m always saying that Pittsburgh lacks diversity and now there won’t even be a urban station in the area.

It’s things like this that makes my decision to move a whole lot easier.

I spent over 2 hours charging that thing last week. I takes that long for it to fully charge. I used it twice for less than an hour each time. When I went to use it today, the thing was totally dead. I couldn’t believe it. It’s not a cheap player either which is why I’m so annoyed. I mean I could have used that money for something else. The shoes I want, baby bedding for my friend that just had a baby, new towels or a bunch of other stuff.

I’ll use it once more. If it doesn’t hold a charge this time, I’ll just go back to my old standby. My ipod never lets me down.

I am so sleepy today. I had to download music onto my mp3 player because today is my day to play a song for my Literature class. I got a free mp3 player that sucks. The drivers would not download to my computer. After I went on to the company’s website, I noticed that other people had trouble downloading the drivers as well.

So I decided to use my other mp3 player. Those drivers took over 2 hours to download and install on my computer. It was mostly the installation that took so long. Then I couldn’t get the device to sync with my computer. I finally went to sleep until after 1am with everything only half-done.

I woke up at 5am (instead of my usual 6:30) and finished everything. Afterwards I couldn’t go back to sleep so I’ve been up ever since. I have class tonight so I won’t get home until after 9pm.

This is gonna be one long day!

I stayed up late last night watching tv as usual. I think I got less than 3 hours of sleep but I also took a 1 hour nap when I first got home from work. I doubt if I’m actually getting 4 hours of sleep per day. The only thing that helps me get through the day is the radio.

We’re only able to stream 1 radio station with our internet connection at work. Luckily it’s a station that I like anyway. They play all kinds of music from pop to dance to hip hop and r&b. You can hear anything on that station. My favorite thing about the station is that they play skits from the morning show all day long. So even though I miss them in the morning, I can still hear them throughout the day.

If it wasn’t for streaming music, I would literally go crazy.