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Good morning Pixlpeeps! Earlier this morning I was greeted by my phone ringing 30 minutes before my alarm goes off. It was a NY number so I answered and asked do you know what time it is on the West Coast. On the other end of the line it was a the sounds of a busy call center which means WINDOWS SCAM GUY is on the phone. He greeted me with my computer has a virus. It was go time, and I was ready. I said ok let me get my laptop. He proceeded to tell me that I needed to concentrate on my keyboard and to find the windows button. I should push that and the R button. I said ok. I then asked what does that do, and at first he was was a little apprehensive about telling me but eventually he did. He asked what do I see on the screen. I said nothing, and this back and forth went on a couple more times before I informed Windows Scam Guy that I forgot to turn on my laptop. It went silent and then he hung up. I'm legit disappointed that he gave up so quickly. Usually they will get all uppity and try to intimidate me with threats about the police coming. This is where I tell them there is no way my laptop should be telling them that my laptop isn't sending them signals and there's no way he can call the police from India and the police have better things to do. After that I leave my phone on because they won't hang up. Now guy hung up and all my fun for the morning ended abruptly. Oh well that number goes to the block list.

 

Alright folks let's get started with Quick Hits because I need to get going on some fun activities for the day.

 

Chris Listens To Music....

In my quest to listen to all the remaining tracks that haven't been played in my iTunes I am still on track. Currently there are 50,479 tracks in my iTunes library and out of that I have 8515 tracks that I haven't listened to yet. The goal for February was to listen to 1,400 tracks and I listened to 1,436 tracks. I also added 493 new tracks to the library, adding to a total of 1,423 new tracks for this year.

As for the podcasts I'm on the fence if I should remove the Adam Carolla Podcast from my podcast lineup. The show hasn't changed much since I first started listening and its usually the same rants: terrible parents, terrible friends, family doesn't care, Jimmy Kimmel, his dog, etc. The podcast is fine but I feel I can listen to it once a week and feel like I'm not missing anything.

 

Lego Dimensions At the .99 Cents Only Store

It seems like the excitement from finding Lego Dimensions packs at the .99 Cents Only Stores have diminished. The once wall of packs have disappeared and many of the different sets are gone. The only thing left are Bart Simpson Fun Packs, Homer Simpson Level Packs, and random Lord of the Rings and some random Chima Fun Packs. I hope the people who actually wanted the packs got them and not the resellers on eBay. As for what I bought I bought the stuff I wanted: new pieces for my game and extra minifigures for my collection

 

The bin of extra Lego Dimensions pieces, and minifigures. Eventually I will sort out the pieces and add them to my Lego collection.

 

My bag full of Lego Dimensions minifigure and vehicle bases

 

The bag of various pieces and weapons

 

The instruction booklets. They really aren't instructions because they only show you how to assemble the minifigures. The vehicle instructions are online or in the game when you first place the minifigures on the portal.

 

The extra minifigures for my Lego Collection. I thought about buying more Portal Level Packs for the Portal guns but when I went back they were all gone. So was all the little Samurai Ninjango figures.

 

Pickups

Games

Week number 3 where I didn't buy any games. I came close, there was a $1 bundle that had one game I thought about.

 

Music

Lots of music

From the mom and pop

 

Early 2000s electronic music. The Wild Gold is a compilation of all the “big hits” of the time. Songs like Darude's Sandstorm, DJ Sammy's Heaven, Zombie Nation, Daft Punk's Da Funk, Prodigy Firestarter, Vengaboys We Like To Party, and ATB's 9PM. The three disc set is pretty good. ATB's Seven Years is a Greatest Hits with a couple of songs I remember from college so just like Wild Gold, the songs were added to various playlists.

 

 

One Tree Hill Vol. 2 is more music from the show. There were not as many songs from this album that liked compared to the previous album but I still found some new stuff I liked. Great Balls of Fire soundtrack is mostly (except for I think three songs) Jerry Lee Lewis.

 

 

I didn't have the most updated CD list on my phone so I accidentally bought Tiesto's album again. Onto the donate pile it goes. The Vanessa Carlton album is the follow-up to Be Not Nobody which I really enjoyed, but this one didn't have any “must listen” to songs for me. It was solid but nothing stood out.

 

 

The Offspring, I bought this album for Want You Bad. That song was on a Disney Mix I used to listen to while on the way to work at the park during the summer. I found a couple of other songs I liked on there as well. The Time was a waste of money. I didn't care for any of the tracks.

 

 

Public Enemy is a four track CD Single for Can't Do Nuttin' For Ya Man. It was a UK release and I dig two of the four tracks, the other two tracks are an instrumental, and the other song is radio friendly track which I don't like because its censored. The Source Presents Hip Hop Hits is a compilation of popular rap tracks. I had most of them but there were four or five tracks I didn't have the full albums to so for now it will be a place holder until I can track down the albums

 

 

Cobra is the score to the 80s flick where Stallone is a cop who protects a woman from a gang of killers that she was an accidental witness to one of their murders. The movie is full on 80s goodness. I wasn't a fan of Foxy Brown's Chyna Doll.

 

I've been tracking down some Hall & Oates albums because I wanted to listen to their deep cuts. This album has a lot of the 80s electronic sound and a couple of tracks I thought were pure garbage filler tracks. Mama Cass' Greatest Hits was an enjoyable listen. I liked this album enough to include the whole thing on my Oldies playlist although there maybe some overlap with the Mamas And Papas Greatest Hits.

 

 

Led Zeppelin didn't stick out to me. Limp Bizkit is one of those bands I kinda liked in their era but now not so much. The only thing I remember about their single Rollin' was that Undertaker used it when he was Biker Undertaker.

 

From Target

 

Yeah I bought the 50 Shades Darker Soundtrack. I liked the previous soundtrack and this one had that Taylor Swift song. In addition to that song I found a couple of others including a couple of covers that I really liked. I refuse to watch any of the films but I like the soundtracks.

 

The final CD Pickup is

 

10 Discs, 9 Albums including a first edition of his new album for $9. I'm not a big Garth fan but I have to say I enjoyed listening to all 9 albums...ok 8 of the 9. I really didn't care for his Covers album. Everything else was really good. There might have been a lot of Greatest Hits action in some of these albums (probably all of them) but I enjoyed it anyways. He's a good story teller, and his Live Album was fun because one of the tracks he let the fans sing the first verse. For $9 this box set is a steal!

 

My final pickups for the week is this

 

I think it was fate that I had to buy the Warthog considering how hard it is to find yet I ran into it three times. I picked up another KITT so now I can open it and make that Woo Woo sound it used to make. This will be my holdover until I get around to buying the Lego Dimensions Michael Knight Fun Pack.

 

Alright Pixlpeeps I am off. Have a good weekend!

That's all for now, more later!

-Chris

 

Ok so here is one of the songs I wanted to add to my Island Mix but didn't get a chance to. This is just a fun song despite the subject.