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You Can’t Break This Stallion’s Terrible Handwriting

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I’ve always had terrible handwriting. Even now as an adult, nothing has really changed. I write down the magic items in my DND campaign and half the time have to read it for my players.

When I was younger, they gave me extra writing homework to try and improve my handwriting. It never worked. No matter how many sentences I wrote. Cursive? Forget it. The only cursive I could handle was the loud band that sang about terrible relationships.

I had a thought today about why my handwriting was so terrible. I think it’s because I get really excited whenever I get the chance to do it. It’s the same reason that my typing is so full of typos. I’m kind of like those dogs that sprain their tails from wagging them too hard.

I thought about practicing it more but outside of the working world and my DND players, no one else reads my handwriting but me. Anything I do creatively I do in a word processor. I keep a diary so it’s a good way to make sure that no one reads that either. I think that was an episode of Doug.

When I have to write a love letter again, I’ll make sure to take my time.

I Tried to Listen to 100 Albums in 2024. I failed but it was fun

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I think the reason I failed is because I got the idea in July and it was basically a nonstop sprint until the end of the year. I got close. I listened to 76 albums before the New Year. My friends said that why don’t you say that you’re going to keep going until next July. But it doesn’t feel neat that way. I just want things to look good.

But why do this? I keep track of the number of books that I read, video games I complete, and TV shows and movies that I watch in a year. Shouldn’t I just be focused on enjoying the media? Why do I have to keep score?

Because it’s part of the discipline of being a creative, at least in my eyes. It’s easy to fall into the same things or waste my time watching Youtube videos or the same things I’ve seen before. I need to make sure that I’m still consuming new ideas and learning from it. Challenging my old preconceived notions.

It’s the same reason that I read from every genre I can find. Because every genre has something new to teach me. I learned how to write flowery descriptions from romance novels. Reading horror taught me suspense for both my own horror writing and when I write things in other genres. I want to make sure that I’m the best I can be and to do that you need to research.

I’m going to cover some of the albums I listened to and below you’ll find the complete list. I think most of them were very good but I’ve highlighted the ones I liked the best. The best though of all of them was Chappell Roan’s “The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess”. There are no skips on that album.

You might noticed that I listened to Smashmouth’s album. The reason for that was partly because I was looking to see if we could move beyond All Star as their only meme song. Turns out that they had put together a really solid sound and that album was very good.

Anyway, I think that it’s a good thing to attempt and keeping track is fun. I like trying to beat my old high score for books each year. So far the best I’ve made in the three years I’ve been doing this is 60 books. Trying to get to a hundred in a year.

  1. Mayday- Old Blood 
  2. Mazzy Star- So Tonight That I Might See
  3. boygenius- the record 
  4. The Kinks- The Kinks are the Village Green Preservation Society
  5. Bad Religion- The Gray Race 
  6. Blondie- Parallel Lines
  7. Butthole Ricochet- Sophomore Slump
  8. Mean Girls 2024 soundtrack 
  9. Taylor Swift- folklore 
  10. Spoon- Memory Dust EP
  11. Azure Ray- As Above, So Below EP
  12. girl in red- if i could make it all go quiet 
  13. Belle and Sebastian- If You’re Feeling Sinister 
  14. Fugazi- Repeater 
  15. The Pierces- You & I
  16. Megadeth- Cryptic Writings 
  17. PUP- The Dream is Over
  18. Judas Priest- Sad Wings of Destiny
  19. Bright Eyes- Cassadaga(Companion Version)
  20. Bright Eyes- Digital Ash in a Digital Urn(Companion Version)
  21. Bright Eyes- Lifted…(Companion Version)
  22. Queens of the Stone Age- Songs for the Deaf 
  23. Hot Step-Mom- The Serial Killer in the Other Room is Better Than You
  24. Taylor Swift- Lover
  25. Catie Turner- Comedy & Tragedy Act 1 – EP 
  26. Raye- 21st Century Blues 
  27. Bad Bad Hats- Bad Bad Hats 
  28. Taylor Swift- Tortured Poets Department 
  29. Billie Eilish- Hit Me Hard and Soft 
  30. Noga Erez- KIDS(Against the Machine)
  31. Dua Lipa- Dua Lipa 
  32. Ninja Sex Party- These Nuts
  33. Apollo 440- The Future’s What It Used to Be 
  34. Chappell Roan- The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess 
  35. Sabrina Carpenter- Short n’ Sweet
  36. girl in red- I’M DOING IT AGAIN BABY!
  37. Metallica- The Black Album 
  38. The Linda Lindas- No Obligations 
  39. The Decemberists- I’ll Be Your Girl 
  40. Epic Beard Men- This Was Supposed to Be Fun 
  41. Fleetwood Mac- Rumors 
  42. Cursive- Devourer 
  43. Wolf Alice- Visions of a Life 
  44. The Last Dinner Party- Prelude to Ecstasy
  45. Stars- Do You Trust Your Friends? 
  46. Smashmouth- Astrolounge 
  47. Bright Eyes- Five Dice, All Threes
  48. Michael Jackson- Thriller 
  49. Thursday- War All the Time 
  50. Chaos Chaos- Committed to the Crime EP 
  51. Iron and Wine- Our Endless Numbered Days
  52. Norah Jones- Come Away With Me 
  53. Zolof The Rock and Roll Destroyer- Schematics 
  54. Zolof The Rock and Roll Destroyer and Reel Big Fish- Duet All Night Long EP 
  55. Dead Kennedys- Plastic Surgery Disasters 
  56. Dead Kennedys- In God We Trust, Inc EP
  57. Sabrina Carpenter- emails I can’t send 
  58. The Misfits- Collection 
  59. Violent Femmes- Violent Femmes 
  60. The Dare- What’s Wrong With New York?
  61. The Dare- Sex EP
  62. Joe Jackson- Look Sharp!
  63. The Long Johns- Bones EP
  64. Light and Motion- Wonder 
  65. Tiffany Poon- Dvornak Album 
  66. The Smiths- The Queen is Dead 
  67. The Smiths- Louder Than Bombs
  68. The Smiths- Strangeways, Here I Come 
  69. David Bowie- Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders of Mars 
  70. Edith Piaf- Chansons Parisiennes 
  71. Robert Palmer- Riptide 
  72. Sade- Love Deluxe 
  73. Vic Chesnutt- At the Cut 
  74. Wicked Soundtrack 
  75. System of a Down- Toxicity 
  76. Harvey Danger- Where Have All the Merrymakers Gone?