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I'd love to spend some time out west. Went there once as a kid, but I'd like to revisit. 

Kacey Musgraves is pretty easy on the eyes, I'll say that. 

Someone on one of my podcasts was joking about not knowing what a CD was. I thought it was funny because, really, they seem pretty out of date with dowloads and streaming and all. Even thinking about music as files seems a little old fashioned. What's a file? I just turn on a streaming service and hear the music. It' is the cloud, man. Dig it? 

Just kidding, though. I just bought some CDs and vinyl this week. Of course, I just ripped them to my laptop to play on my iPod. Then they get put in a folder or recycled. 

Right, sometimes they're fun. Maybe I just need a break from them. 

I usually stop on an achievement if it seems like it will be a long tedious process. I don't want it to become like work. Oh, heck no. 

"achievement fever" is a good phrase. I think I had that with Doom last week. 

After playing the story in a game, I usually find I'm at about 50% completion with achievements. That's without looking at them once or really thinking about them; although, now that I know many of the types of things achievements usually ask for, I sometimes think about doing certain things during my first playthrough. I don't want to distract myself too much from the story, though, on my first run. 

I felt today like I ruined further playthroughs of Doom by using a walkthrough to finish up the collectibles. I figured it would take me too long to get them all on my own, but now I kind of want another reason to play the campaign again. I'm considering playing on a new save and just upgrading whatever I want instead of trying to be all completionist about it. I sort of feel achievements might be getting in the way of my enjoyment of a game at the moment. 

That's a good attitude. It's easy to get caught up in various challenges a game gives you. I'm kind of interested in seeing what achievements I don't get now, or what ones I get just by playing my own way. It was interesting seeing where all the secrets were that I missed in Doom. I used a walkthrough and some of them I would've gotten on another playthrough, but some of them were so obscure, I would've had to discover them by accident to find them on my own. 

I did Christmas music for like two days. That's about enough for me. 

That cassette tape to mp3 is pretty cool. I converted all my tapes to cd some years ago. I used to occassionally pick up a used cassette tape of music and convert it, but I haven't seen any in a while now. I've also gotten rid of all my tape players. Sometimes I think it might be good to have one around just in case, but I really haven't seen a cassette tape in a long while. Even my used record store, which I just went to the other day, doesn't have them anymore. 

Sometimes they are good, like the One Bullet achievement in Half Life 2 that forced me to use the gravity gun for the whole game, but a lot of the time they are just pointless attempts to keep you in the game as long as possible. I almost regret getting every collectible in Doom now. I should've avoided the walkthrough videos. 

I left a few trophies for the races unfinished. I was thinking yesterday I may go back and try them again.