Technology is complicated

I’ve been trying to post on Saturdays, but the website wouldn’t let me make a post. Turns out, I needed to clear my cache, which is always odd when a website requires that. The cache is how websites remember content so it doesn’t have to re-download it, the fact that the remembered content can cause problems is always weird.

Anyways, I’m here, I don’t really remember what I was going to say the last two weeks, but this time around, I think I’m saying that spring cleaning is a vital time of year. Granted, I’m getting rid of more things than most, since I disassembled and gave away the very big drafting table that was in my room, along with over half of my silly hat collection and the Dungeons and Dragons books I had. But it’s important to keep your life uncluttered.

I haven’t done a serious inventory of my possessions for a long time. I have done some culling of my stuff about a year ago, when Grandpa was moving in and the entire house was trying to conserve space, but that was just the really obvious. Like my bike helmet and racquetball racket. Why is racquetball and racket spelled two different ways? Racquet. Huh, that’s also right.

Anyways! There’s a lot that I didn’t need, or even really want long-term. It was just in a spot in my room, and it’s easier to leave things where they are. After all, it technically doesn’t hurt anything to continue to have things. But that’s a slippery slope to having too much stuff, and around here, we’ve seen the effects of having too much stuff. So I’m not going to do that.

And then eventually, I’ll make a new desk, with easy to use drawers, and it’ll be nice.

Song of the Week: The Night Begins to Shine by B.E.R. This is…a weird song. It was written in 2005 for a music library, as a generic 80s-style song, which is succeeds at. And then it was used in a kids cartoon as a throwaway joke in 2014, and the fans liked the song so much that they did another episode all about the song, and then it was the subject of a multi-part special…and then another multi-part special. It was also covered by Fallout Boy, Ceelo Green, and a Japanese group called Puffy AmiYumi. If you don’t know those groups, I assure you that they have name recognition among various music circles, and are far too qualified to be covering a song like this.