[rant mode]
Do your S.O.s gripe about stuff that you just cant comprehend why they make a big deal out of? I mentioned to my fiancé that I am going to go pick up my Mom’s old turntable and some old LPs after reading the thread in the hardware forum about people still listening to LPs. I didn’t realize that you could find LPs so cheap. I had been reluctant to buy some jazz and classic rock on CD because it is just as expensive as new stuff, and I hate downloading it because (well first of all that’s not very ethical) the songs are never “ripped” right (the levels don’t match, and the songs are cut off or sound worse than old cassette tapes). So any way, I tell her this, and she gets pissed. She starts asking why do I need a turn table when we don’t have any records. So I tell her that my mom has some that she is giving me, and that I hope to pick up some other records for very cheap. So then she pulls out “you’re always griping about sound quality and you want to go back to records” So I try (unsuccessfully, I can tell) to explain how good a clean good condition record can sound on a well adjusted, good condition turn table. Then she asks where I’m going to put it. Well, one of the shelves in the entertainment center is occupied by her original Nintendo which we NEVER use. I said I was going to put the Nintendo behind the doors under the TV in the entertainment center. I can tell this didn’t help and pissed her off more somehow, and I don’t know why. I don’t know if she thinks I think that my stuff is more important than hers. She already makes comments about how I monopolize the living room. (We have two other TVs but only one DVD player and surround system. I don’t help matters in this argument with my comments that I can easily go out and buy a second home theater system for the bedroom if that’s what she wants). But that’s a whole other rant.
Yeah, I know I’m just kind of experimenting, but its not costing us anything. I really don’t get what she’s pissed about. I don’t criticize her for some of the stuff she has that I think is stupid. She does scrap booking which is like really elaborate photo albums where every page is a whole theme (you can actually see her work at http://www.memorybookmania.com)
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Do your S.O.s gripe about stuff that you just cant comprehend why they make a big deal out of? I mentioned to my fiancé that I am going to go pick up my Mom’s old turntable and some old LPs after reading the thread in the hardware forum about people still listening to LPs. I didn’t realize that you could find LPs so cheap. I had been reluctant to buy some jazz and classic rock on CD because it is just as expensive as new stuff, and I hate downloading it because (well first of all that’s not very ethical) the songs are never “ripped” right (the levels don’t match, and the songs are cut off or sound worse than old cassette tapes). So any way, I tell her this, and she gets pissed. She starts asking why do I need a turn table when we don’t have any records. So I tell her that my mom has some that she is giving me, and that I hope to pick up some other records for very cheap. So then she pulls out “you’re always griping about sound quality and you want to go back to records” So I try (unsuccessfully, I can tell) to explain how good a clean good condition record can sound on a well adjusted, good condition turn table. Then she asks where I’m going to put it. Well, one of the shelves in the entertainment center is occupied by her original Nintendo which we NEVER use. I said I was going to put the Nintendo behind the doors under the TV in the entertainment center. I can tell this didn’t help and pissed her off more somehow, and I don’t know why. I don’t know if she thinks I think that my stuff is more important than hers. She already makes comments about how I monopolize the living room. (We have two other TVs but only one DVD player and surround system. I don’t help matters in this argument with my comments that I can easily go out and buy a second home theater system for the bedroom if that’s what she wants). But that’s a whole other rant.
Yeah, I know I’m just kind of experimenting, but its not costing us anything. I really don’t get what she’s pissed about. I don’t criticize her for some of the stuff she has that I think is stupid. She does scrap booking which is like really elaborate photo albums where every page is a whole theme (you can actually see her work at http://www.memorybookmania.com)
e-mail me: [email protected]
My DVD Profiler
Paradigm Lover
