Just for a change of pace, I’m not going to bitch about not being able to blow money on random things this week, instead I’m going to talk about blowing money on random stuff this week. Because I could, and I did.
But first…
Music
I decided to spice things up a bit in my music listening by pulling out a bunch of random singles tracks from my huge library of music and throwing them on my phone. I’m not even reall done doing this yet really, because I have, a LOT of music.
But I also pulled a few notable albums I used ot listen to a bit more up again. One I particular really enjoy, that I should probably do a proper write up on if I ever get around to do that sort of thing again, is the soundtrack to Wing Commander Prophecy. I have never even played the game, but I’ve had the soundtrack to it for a long time, on CD. It’s this sort of, industrial grunge techno and it’s all so good.
I also dug out a little bit of Metallica, inspired somewhat by that last summer concert I went to and the Whisky in the Jar cover they did. Though I don’t think I even ended up listening to Metallica’s version again yet.
Toys
I have not been really picking up a lot of Transformers lately, mostly because I am fairly satisfied with most of what I have. I keep seeing Tarn though at Walmart when grocery shopping, and I heard he was pretty good, so I finally decided to just get him. He’s a neat design, from the IDW Comics originally I think. The robot is super slick and he has a neat “Decepticon Logo” face. I am not sure of his backstory otherwise, but I assume he is some sort of fanatical psycho.
Other
Other, I guess. I also bought a camera at an estate sale. I have not really tried it out much, but it’s a Nikon Coolpix P900. It’s basically a “Point n Shoot” style camera, but it’s notable because it has an enormous lense build into it. I don’t know the exact number comparisons but it lists it as 83x zoom, 2000mm 35mm equivalent.
The largest lens I have for my DSLR is 300mm. So this is quite a bit stronger. I did some quick research on it before hand and it seems some people don’t super like the image quality for the price, which seemed ot be around $500. But I only paid $50 for it. So it’ll be something fun to mess a round with, especially with a tripod in the backyard with the animals back there.
Video Games
It’s just all still Pokemon and Overwatch. I feel like I have not made significant progress on Pokemon Yellow since last time, though I have been playing some. PokemonGo has been running the GoFest event this week and I have gotten so many Regis. There were two new Regi Pokemon added, and they are all over the rais and every raid you finish gets you a research task for an additional one, plus I have been doubling up with my secondary account I use for Partner research tasks and to bump myself from Gyms if I get stuck too long.
