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I’m sorry to be writing this, but I feel I need to at least post something here on The World Forgot. Life has become more than a little hectic in the past few months and I’ll be taking a bit of a break from the normal pace of writing four or five pieces a week on TWF. I’ve moved to a new city, started a new job, and amongst other things my free time {of which I used to have copious amounts} has become somewhat marginalized in the process.
This upcoming weekend, hopefully, I’ll finally be moving into my own apartment which will be an easy walking distance from both my job and the gym I use. After that it’ll hopefully be a short wait until internet access is online and I once again can resume my position of clever music maven. Until then rest assured that you, dear readers, are not forgotten and I do not aim to continue neglecting you. I will return.
My posts will be hit or miss the next few weeks here on TWF. This is partially because I’m busy, but more importantly my 8 year old laptop struggles mightily to run the programs that allow me to post. Hopefully by the end of June or early July I will have a new laptop in hand that can handle all that i need to continue making TWF a place to discover new music.
And just for those who are interested I currently use a Sony Vaio laptop that was bought in 2001. Yes, that’s right, 2001. Which means the laptop and the technology inside of it are almost a decade old. As I type this reply i have to pause after every two or three words because it takes that long for each letter to appear on screen after I’ve hit a key. {Just launching Firefox on this laptop takes around 52 seconds on average… trust me, when it takes that long, you have nothing better to do than time it and find the average}. It’s rocking a Pentium 700Mhz processor {which is roughly 1/5 as powerful as present day mobile phone processors} and I’ve maxed it out with a glorious 512MB of RAM. Oh, I also have only about 1GB free of hard drive space to spare which makes it almost impossible to download new music, rip CDs to mp3, or do anything else that facilitates listening to new artists or new albums.
Basically my current computer setup {flavored slightly by the amount of free time i have} has made it not enjoyable to post about music here. In fact it’s quite literally a pain.
For awhile I was using an extra computer at work to post {this accounted for the quick flurry of posts in April and May}, but this opportunity is now not available {yes, I am still employed, but now I’ve become busier than ever with work and I’ve taken over the website here and, well, life in general seems to be moving fast}.
Long story short I’ll post as much as I can when I can. Thanks for being patient with me…