That was fun
(not really)
I just fucked around w/ two diff music players (Blackplayer and Vinyl Music Player) and I can NOT get them to recognize the media files i d/l'd from YT (Satyrcon album) no matter what I do. I just went into the AndroZIP File Manager and am listening from some app from there. I would like a dedicated music app w/ artwork, etc. so i can just....listen to my music. But instead I have to go to the file manager and select “audio-only” so i can listen in the background while i do other things on the tablet. I had all of this down to a science on the Kycoera (running Android Lollipop) but i suppose things changed on Android Nougat? I mean don't get me wrong, Nougat is 10,000x's better than Lollipop ever was, but this whole music transfer thing is insane.
Be back in a bit
following #BlackMetal instas
i can't get enough
also following more #tattoo-related instas as well (obvs. always have)
but let me talk about my tattoos
i don't think i am getting anymore. if there were ever a chance for me to get whateverthefuck i wanted, it would have been in this past week, and i didn't get anything. I sort of always wanted just the koi fish (+ all the shit i got before it) and i wanted to toss in a bicep piece so my upper-arm didn't look too empty. I got both of those pieces, proud of ALL my tattoos, and don't think i need to get anymore.
The thing is: they are an addiction. Addictive as far as the endorphins go, addictive as far as the adrenaline rush goes, addictive as far as “space” on the body goes (there is almost always room to fill-up), etc. And I simply cannot AFFORD to get the amt of ink that i really want to get. I would LOVE to be covered head-to-toe, but i am not gonna go crazy thinking abt it. No longer.
I am happy w/ what i have and maybe on some one-off impulse i will get another piece of work, but i am not going to go out of my way to get more work done. Aside from getting my ears pierced (which i would like to do v soon), i am not v concerned w/ body mods anymore. I have plenty o' ink, and i am satisfied with that :)
So anyway, that's it for now.
Be back in a bit!
THERE is the split-screen!
i was wondering how to do this on Android N. Got it working now. Got Twitter on right, write.as on left! :) I also had a L of water and am plenty hydrated + having a very bold cup o' coffee sitting here next to me.
I had lunchie ('twas delish) and am going to get a pop from BP as soon as the sun sets (it's fucking 91 F right now, so, i'm inside until it cools down).
Tomorrow AM: grocery shopping. A bigger trip this time.
Anyway, that's all for now
Be back in a bit!
Made it to the store
The walk there was pleasant. The walk back was hot. It is 83 degrees outside (and climbing) right now and it is going to get to 94 :( I was able to get a Gatorade (should've bought two) and some stuff for a sammy and a chocolate chunk cookie. Good stuff here.
Now i am definitely in for the day. Not going anywhere.
Be back in a bit!
Made it to the store
The walk there was pleasant. The walk back was hot. It is 83 degrees outside (and climbing) right now and it is going to get to 94 :( I was able to get a Gatorade (should've bought two) and some stuff for a sammy and a chocolate chunk cookie. Good stuff here.
Now i am definitely in for the day. Not going anywhere.
Be back in a bit!
4 hrs and 20 mins to go...
....until i go and get some (real) grub from the grocery store. It is Sunday so i do not expect the main road running between me and said store to be insane (at least not at 6 AM). idgaf what i buy, as long as it is nutritious/satisfying.
i got nothing else to #write about for the night either, i don't think. coffee wearing off.
peace for the night (morning)
Happy July
I made a (second) cup of #espresso and am feeling quite fine. I am thinking about reading quite a bit of “On War” by Carl von Clausewitz tomorrow (as i own it, am working through it now) because i have absolutely nothing planned for tomorrow and would like to put a dent in that book. Then again, I want to catch up on some (long-forgotten) #longreads that are scattered across the Internet and find them, and save them to Pocket, and read a few of them. If i sit and rack my brain i will be able to remember their titles, authors, etc. Reading on a tablet is so gd enjoyable :)
Anyway, it's July, so...yay? It's gonna be hot as fuck and that is not very fun, but Independence Day is this month, so that is cool. Also known as Dog Freak Out Day. I will probably be spending it here at my apartment. Luckily I no longer have a dog so I do not have to spend the evening cleaning up terror piss like I have in yeaars past. I am grateful for that.
Be back in a bit!
Let's Talk About MAKING The Perfect Cup Of Coffee
It isn't as hard as people think it is.
Step 1: buy the coffee (fair trade, organic, local, fresh ground)
Step 2: (if bought whole-bean) grind the coffee (if have yet to buy a grinder. I will. Will grind in the morning (just like the single-mom strippers))
Step 3: pour 3+ tablespoons of grounds into a French press. I say 3+ and not 1+ or 2+ because we want this to be a very bold cup of java. Something that truly awakens the energy monster which lives within all of us.
Step 4: heat water on a stovetop (if you microwave it, you may as well pour radioactive sludge into your cup because microwaving water is the equivalent of drinking battery acid)
Step 5: remove water BEFORE it starts boiling. Boiling will burn and ruin the grounds.
Step 6: pour the (non-boiling) water onto your grounds in the French press (i don't care what brand French press you use, they all basically do the same thing)
Step 7: let the coffee sit and brew for three minutes.
Step 8: press, pour, and enjoy
I do this about five times a day. I do not even buy other beverages for the house besides coffee and purified water.
This has been a step-by-step process of making the perfect cup of coffee
Perfect Coffee
Ever make a bold cup of coffee and after finishing it think “that was the best damn cup of coffee I ever had”? That happens to me sometimes but EVERYtime I think that, it is because I made the cup with four+ scoops of grounds in the French press. So, i am going to make it that way from now on.
I was just going on and on over on Twitter about how when I was a teenager, I would fill the coffee filter on the Mr Coffee ALLLLL the way to the top with Starbucks Espresso Roast (their darkest roast) and it would make a littttle bittty pot o' coffee and that shit was basically espresso-tar. And lemme tell ya, it was DAMN good and DAMN satisfying. I didn't even know any better. I figured the filter was that size for a reason, TO BE FILLED ALL THE WAY UP!
So, I decided that from now on, I will make every cup of coffee with at LEAST four scoops of grounds so every cup will be as incredibly bold as the coffee was in the early days of me drinking coffee. I started when I was about 13 years old, and haven't looked back.
Also, fuck Keurig. Awful shit.
Does anybody else feel lost?
Not as in, not knowing where they ARE in life, but not knowing where they are GOING? I feel this way quite often. Like, what comes next? I don't have much to do on most days and though i am v fulfilled with #writing, i don't have any type of “drive” to do it. Just a compulsion. I do probably a dozen or more #blog posts a day and several of them tend to be meaningful (depending on if I A) have a lot of caffeine in me and B) if some particular subject is nagging at me at that time. I have “the best of” sort of collected in Littered Thoughts (and i am v proud of that #book), but, sometimes I feel like my life is lacking any sort of direction. It's weird.
Anyway, coffee is on