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[cleolinda]

Huh. I'm cleaning, and I just found a jar candle, starfruit & mango scented, from thecandleconnection.net in a box of books. I have never seen this candle before in my life.

Score!

Dude! I just found my old Discman! Awww, I love you, Discman. I know mp3s have made you a teensy bit obsolete, but that's okay! I'll burn some CDs and use you again! I still love--whoa, you were manufactured in 1998? Dude. You really are a solid piece of hardware.

Hmm. I am going to end up spraining or breaking or pulling something by the end of this, I know. I'm trying to clean out this tight little corner, boxed in between my TV cabinet and my desk, where all these boxes are piled up. Once the boxes (and a little vintage fold-up desk) are moved out, a plain fold-down table's going to be squeezed in there for my new printer (new = "bought late last summer, never opened"), and... God knows where all the boxes are going to go, but there it is. Most of them seem to contain desk supplies (accordion folders, portfolios, notebooks) or fairly valuable (to me) binders and notebooks full of writing, but damn if they're not heavy as lead.

Also, I still don't quite know what to do with this microphone I got for the computer. What do I... record on?

P.S. Hollywood Babylon smells really, really good.

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[-horcrux-.livejournal.com]

I go through maybe.... six cd players a year.... Was more cost efficient to get an iPod, lol.

[italianbakegal.livejournal.com]

what are your thoughts on the upcoming movie V for Vendetta, based on the graphic novel? are we to expect any insider info or entries talking about it?

just wondering, because i'm extremely excited! ha.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Oh, of course--I love Hugo Weaving, so I'm keeping my eye on it. When I used to run a full site, I put up news about any and everything. I'll still put up anything I find, but while I'm kind of taking it easy, I'm just not going to scour the net for, you know, every single DVD review possible, you know?

[goonie-freak.livejournal.com]

Isn't it so cool to find thing you never knew you had when you clean? (Thats the only part about cleaning I like!)

*looks around room* I may need to clean up a bit myself... My Harry Potter is mixed in with ancient novels and my CD's are in total disaray! Meh I have to work so it can wait.... there's always tomorrow!

[twilight-zen.livejournal.com]

You always find all sorts of goodies when you clean. I'm totally going to fly to your place and clean with you. We might find some sort of rare hidden treasure that could sell for a million. Then we could make a movie about it. About us cleaning. And call it Mr. Clean's Treasure and give Nick Cage a shitty supporting role... and tie Sean Bean to the bed and do all sorts of Nasty things to him. Of course, we'd need someone hot to play Mr. Clean... bruce willis is still looking pretty good.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Hee! See, that's almost why I don't want to finish cleaning, because then the secret goodies would run out. Sadface.

[meghatron.livejournal.com]

Also, I still don't quite know what to do with this microphone I got for the computer. What do I... record on?

Your hard drive. Obviously, you need a program for your computer that takes the input from the mic and makes it into a sound file, but that's it.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I think the program was more what I was wondering about.

[meghatron.livejournal.com]

You're on a PC, aren't you? Alas, I cannot help recommend a program if that's the case.

[amaelamin.livejournal.com]

RecordPad, which can be downloaded... somewhere easily Googled, I would imagine *g*, is pretty decent, in my experience. It's a trial version, but it does come with editing software, too. You know, just in case you wanted to record anything.

[discogravy.livejournal.com]

I would recommend Audacity, which can be gotten for Teh Free!!1one! at http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ -- note that it won't record straight to mp3 by itself, you'll need to install LAME (there's links there on the website) and then the first time you run Audacity, it'll ask you where you put lamenc.dll or something and you just have to tell it.

A m15m mp3? or podcast? Hell yeah.

*is a hopeless candle addict*

[arayuldaiel.livejournal.com]

Dammit, Cleo, must you always get me addicted to nice-smelling stuff? *ooohs and aaahs over the Candle Connection*

[http://users.livejournal.com/bellereve_/]

My discman was made in '95 and still works! They are amazing things, those Discmen.

[coconutzo.livejournal.com]

I have never seen this candle before in my life.

LMFAO funny ^_^

[royalsongstress.livejournal.com]

Oooh, I love sorting through stuff! Maybe I should come and help you.

I got my Discman when we won the lottery at a dance competition in Toronto (I was at a dance competition when we won, we didn't buy the Discman there). It wasn't a lot of money, but both my brother and I got Discmen. It is well-loved my Discman. Many trips to the hospital and on vacations. Like my teddy bear, it comes everywhere with me. It has musical note stickers on it and a holograph sticker of my name. It got me through many a math class. It even survived a face plant off a rolling hospital table that snapped my Forbidden Broadway CD in two. I love that Discman...

[pygmymetal.livejournal.com]

Child unit still has a Discman. :)

You can use the mic on things like Yahoo to actually talk to the person. It's free! It's fun! It's addictive!

[tecno-fairy.livejournal.com]

I still have a CD walkman I was given as a birthday present when I was 14. I'm now 22. It still works, pretty much, although it occasionally makes odd noises, and it stops the CD every time you knock it slightly. All in all, I prefer my iPod, but I'm still mighty impressed with Sony for making a little machine that lasted that long.

[particle-person.livejournal.com]

You can go non-fiction for your next book, and write "Things You Never Knew You Owned, and What To Do WIth Them Now You've Wised Up."

[someway.livejournal.com]

Second the motion!

[teenageluminary.livejournal.com]

I don't know how I would get by without my Discman - I take it everywhere with me these days. I'm just lucky it hasn't broken, seeing as how I drop it so much. Heh.

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

Hollywood Babylon smells wonderful, but it literally burns my ears!

Weird.

It's okay on the other pulsepoints for me, though.

[lissybrand.livejournal.com]

haha - good luck with the cleaning - and im sure the mic for the pc is for you to talk to people online and so forth :)

microphone

[inuit3877.livejournal.com]

There's this really cool little program called "Audacity" that a friend told me about when I was looking for inexpensive utilities to help me edit sound for a short film. The software can record from your optical drive (dvd, cd, or whatever you have) or it can record from a microphone. Here's the link: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

Re: microphone

[particle-person.livejournal.com]

I second Audacity— I've used the Mac version, and it's very nice.

Re: microphone

[mysticowl.livejournal.com]

I've had to use audacity for my french classes. Meh too fancy and complicated for my unsophisticated recording tastes.

[andromeda-77.livejournal.com]

You really are a solid piece of hardware
Dude, that was the first sentence I read in your post. Yeah. I'm sure you can imagine my mental images. ;)

[someway.livejournal.com]

Under "accessories", there's a "sound recorder" in Windows XP.

[shesnotallthere.livejournal.com]

Note to Self: Should Cleo disappear for a few days, assume she is trapped in a box avalanche, and send for help.

[mysticowl.livejournal.com]

The sound recorder should be on all windows versions, not just XP... either way it's in accessories > entertainment

[ambiguousreason.livejournal.com]

God, I remember when I had a CD player. I was always breaking them, and since I listened to music all the time the batteries were constantly needing to be replaced. I don't know how I didn't go completely batshit crazy, seriously.

Oh my God, I sound like an old person: "I remember back in the day, I used things that are now (mostly) considered archaic!"

[jwaneeta.livejournal.com]

I know I'm just one in the stream, but I want to congratulate you on your success: a genuinely funny book.

Don't feel too weird about feeling dead. It's the natural result of your massive deadline effort. Life and joy will return to you. :)

(As you grow into the professional writer/artist slot, you 'll come to know that everything IS LATE. "Not a minute to be lost." Don't feel bad for being late: it's built into the system. :)

I almost bought your book at AmazonUK, but then I heard there was US hope for distribution.

Joy, joy to you, and your talent.

[edda.livejournal.com]

*follows link*

Oooooooooooh. O.o

[lissybrand.livejournal.com]

FYI - check out this link : http://www.myimperfection.net/viewtopic.php?p=6#6

[istoo.livejournal.com]

Maybe the candle fairy put it there, to reward you for your cleaning. :)

Couldn't you get someone to help you with the heavy lifting / moving? You're a well-known soon-to-have-book-out writer now, I'm sure it would be easy to get someone to help (although it is your room, so you might not want visitors).

[saint-kat.livejournal.com]

I still have my Discman, nearly a decade old and still working (minus not having to close it down properly and missing the small door that keeps the batteries from popping out). My particular player was bought at a military exchange store (went with my dad, who had a military ID in tow).

Cleaning is a pain in the ass. I haven't cleaned my room in a while and it looks rather drecky. I hope you don't injure yourself in the process of moving stuff into boxes.

[7-at-heart.livejournal.com]

Wow...you actually have the guts to clean! I'd be afraid of what I might find if I started cleaning.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Well, I was basically given a Clean or ELSE ultimatum. Also, since I started a few weeks ago, I've found alcohol, chocolate, incense, jewelry, books, DVDs, CDs, candles, and socks. Give it a try--who knows what you might find. ; )

[moonfairyhime.livejournal.com]

I have a discman from 1998 that's been on six family vacations, a trip to Quebec, dropped down the stairs, dropped from my entertainment system, and, once, thrown across the hallway.

The discman still works as well as did on the day I bought it.