what's going good people! 
Welcome to another MyLoveForMusic:Twilight. I hope everyone is doing well and I hope the work week has been good to you. Next week I will begin class and this time I will truly have my nose to the grindstone so I don't know when I will be able to bring you another podcast so I hope you enjoy this selection I put together for you.
For me finding quality music has never been an issue with me because for me since I listen mostly to instrumental music, whether jazz, new age, ambient this music has always transcended me to another time and place. This selection could have been put in the MyLoveForMusic category but as I sit hear the playback I put it in the right place.[more]
Welcome back everyone, I hope your work week went well and I
hope your weekend will belong to you. Two things I have told myself, (1) Take
life for what it's worth and (2) not to do any more podcast with 17-18
tracks...I can't handle that when it comes to the show notes. 
But besides that
everything is great. This podcast will have a positive hip-hop track(that was
inspired by Macedonia's BSOTS episode #69[the track was "love, hugs and
hip-hop"by carlos
nino & lil'
sci]). With that said I want to keep the positive vibe going with my
podcast.
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*this podcast was originally recorded July 26 so forgive the tardiness of me just posting this now. When this is posted Fave has already posted his "Behind the Bounce" podcast and Nikki has Soulrific #19 and ejflavors' "In Rotation Volume 18" has been posted...this is the last time I will make a 17 track podcast...the show notes are killin' me. :-)
As
the ol' heads used to say, "I'm late but I'm straight." This is a
podcast that was recorded a week ago but I'm just now getting a chance
to post it now so my apologies. Sometimes when putting together podcast
you do not realize how great some of the tunes you have collected until
you go back and just "listen" to them. What I mean by that is for me
when I really need to listen to music I have to have no detractions
around to be able to soak in the notes as I hear them. This collection
is "Something Old/Something New/Something Blue."[more]
It is and has always been said that "a crazy person is a lad that keeps doing the same task the same way and expect different results"...I am that crazy person...when it comes to time. You would think by me skating through class by the skin of my teeth last time that I would have realized this but it seems I have not. I begin class this month and already my habits has not change when it comes to managing time. I should know better, heck, I DO KNOW BETTER and yet I keep engaging in this destructive habit to myself. I will admit (and maybe this will help me by me saying this out loud) I do not respect TIME plain and simple.
By me working the way that I do I know really do not have time to do certain things, like surfing the web because lets be honest...it seems when you are surfing the web hours seem like minutes and minutes seems like seconds. I know this but then I keep trying to do this every day which leads to not getting to work the time when I want to get there which in returns when the training rooms and conferences rooms are used means I may leave work after my schedule time. I will be honest, this falls on me. I can't blame anyone. I know we only have 24 hours in a day, I can't stop time (the only time I know when the sun stopped is when Joshua was battling his enemies and God stopped time for him and I can not think of anyone else that time stopped for although that's would be cool don't you think?). So with that said, I have to break this bad habit and NOW. This is what I need to do every day during the work/school week.The only time I can get on the computer for me is early in the morning. During the day I don't have access to it at work and I have accepted that and when I come home not to get on the computer because I know once I'm on 15-20 minutes is not good for me. I'm a geek, I love the web and for that's like giving me one french fry or a half of a hamburger...it will not do my justice. And how do I use the computer doing the morning is to...
Take my butt to bed when I get home from the second gig. I say this all the time and really never do it. I need to hop in the shower, if I'm hungry to eat a bowl of cereal (nothing heavy). No computer/no TV...just bedtime. So what if my Karma on Plurk dips doing the week, it's just a thing of no value right? (so why I'm I so worried if it's dips below 50?) But in all seriousness, I need to manage my time and respect time. If I go to bed at a proper time, I wake up early and that time i can get my geek on. It seems that I do my best work either very early in the morning or late, late at night.
Eat a big breakfast at home. If I eat a nice big breakfast and snack on healthy food doing the day I really do not need a lunch and by only getting 30 minutes for lunch this works out for me (and what is up with these companies only giving 30 minutes?) I find for me not eating food at work (1) helps me stay away from the noisy/nosy people (2) I can spend some quiet time with myself (3) curves me from spending money. (4) I'm thinking about what I need to accomplish and not food.
In all honesty it really comes down to me. In order for me to do what I want and really need I must give up some habits that in the end that are not benefiting me right now. Watching TV...those actors already have "theirs" and I need to get mine. It is so true, "time is what you make of it" and right now I am not making good with my time...but that's goint to change. These things I need to simple and I am making what I need to do to better myself difficult. I have to make that change in order to be successful.
These podcasts I find myself coming back time and time again, laid back, relaxing podcast. I guess this past week has been long one and I was hoping to publish this podcast last week but time got away from me. This podcast was a little long for me as well (close to 90 minutes). I'm going to get back to having just an hour a little over.>>>[more]
I am in training with about 10-15 people and I feel so alone; but when i head to the second job at night and I am by myself I feel so whole. Is the backwards? I don't think so because I do not like nonsense. I wish I could just come in to a job, people just do what they suppose to do...you know, "work". Instead, I hear people talking while the instructor is trying to teach his lessons, when going on break in break room where you can use your cell phone or use the wall phones that are available and I hear "baby momma's drama", chicks yelling at "Tyrone" for just laying around the house. A perfect world for me would be that if I had to work around women they watched shows on USA Network/HGTV/NatGeo/The Travel Channel. They listen to podcasts, they dress modest, the woman are polite, nice, and up front with you in a professional manner...no head games.
I am 43 now and I have a very low tolerance for foolishness. For me, women that watch Grey's Anatomy/Girlfriends/Sex In The City/TMZ/Access Hollywood/Entertainment Tonight/Oxygen/Lifetime Channel I have no need for them to come around me, be around me. Many of these type of women live in a fantasy world. I know there is no "perfect" person but what I have found out is that some women say they enjoy peace but love nonsense and other woman love peace, work for having peace around them and within themselves. I have also come to realize that for me there is a difference between a "church/Christian woman" and a woman that is a "Follower of Christ Jesus".
Let me make this very clear, not all women that watch T.D. Jakes/Cleflo Dollar/Zachary Timms/Rod Parsely/John Hagee and not like this but many women who watch these pastors say they are Christians but gossip, have bad eating habits, children have no home training, spends like its no tomorrow and then wonder why their lives are in disarray. Where women who watch and listen to pastors like Paul Sheppard/Dr. Charles Stanley/Greg Laurie/Adrian Rogers/Chuck Swindoll/David Jeremiah and that enjoy listening to NPR are more in tune with God's word, strong and yet gentle, they spend money wisely and are very pleasant to be around. I also find out that women that are into computers are some of the coolest women on the planet. I'm I saying that the former pastors I mentioned are bad? Not at all...what I have learned is that these men can teach God's word but it is up to the individual put it into practice.
When I am at my night cleaning job, I am alone, I have my quiet time with Jesus, I have my iPod and I am a happy camper. I can hear myself think, I can let my mind flow. The other thing is that even the people that work inside the building that cleans are very cool. Maybe it's because it's less contact and we are on our own floors...maybe blue collar people have more common/street sense than people that work in corporate America. Either way, it's so nice, so cool to work in this type of environment. This is my time to unwind. I look at working at the night job as exercise(and I get paid for it), solitude, time to re-group.
I have low tolerance for stupidity, whether male or female. I am glad I am married because in this day and age if I was single I think I would marry but I would be so selective that I may be single for the rest of my life. So much drama in this day and age and so many ways of carrying yourself is tolerated it makes my stomach turn. I think I'm like Robert DeNiro's character in "Heat" when he says, "I am 'alone' but I'm not 'lonely'. Maybe I'm getting to an age where I am becoming set in my ways but I don't think so. Maybe I'm getting set in my ways when it comes to people offline because it seems I'm cool with many people online.
Does anyone feel this way?
Even though it was only weekend trip it was something that the family needed. I haven't beening blogging much...haven't felt up to it. Different things have been going on with me personally. I have lost touch with myself, with my Lord and Savior, haven't been missing the internet, just been in a funk. Sometimes you have to see a different scenery to make you realize how blessed you are. Going to Chattanooga, Tennessee was a true trip me, Z, the step-children and the grandchildren needed.
The drive up there was truly peaceful. We only stopped a couple of times but overall the weather was fantastic. We did not have to run the air in our cars which was truly a blessing because that means no extra gas burning. One thing I made a misstep on is not burning driving CDs because I can truly say, they is nothing on commercial radio (we have to invest in either XM or Sirus satelite). Our next trip I will not make that mistake. Once we arrived to Chattanooga we took are stuff to our rooms and then headed downtown Chattanooga and walked around Tennessee Aquarium. The children had a blast and so did the grown ups. After being down there for a couple of hours we headed back to the hotel, changed and went ou to eat at the Shoney's. The food was cool and I must say I did not stuff myself, which is a big difference for me which is a good thing.
The next day we got everything together and checked out then headed to Ruby Falls. That line was too long so we headed to the Incline Railway which is pretty cool. To see the look on everyone faces to see how beautiful the landscape is made them realize that this is what life is all about...seeing different parts of the world. Next we went to Lookout Mountain. Me and Z have been there about 4-5 times but each time I enjoy the site. Being up in the mountains, seeing what God blessed man to carve out and to show the world is just breathtaking. Being here made me forget about the internet, my podcast and what it made me think of was God first, my wife second, the step-children and grandchildren. It put in perspective that it is truly good to experience life, share life with the ones you love and enjoy every moment.
I am playing around with recording outside. I want to begin recording my intro and outro for my MyLoveForMusic podcast to give it a more relaxing, serene feeling to it.
Found an old mixtape I put together I'm pretty sure back in the mid or late 90s (why does that seem like ages ago for me) of Maxwell and Erykah Badu (the mixtape also is saying Paula Cole is on here...which lets you all know how I was mixing different genres before my podcast) and guess what I'm doing...yep converting it to WAV and later it will be converted to mp3s. What is catching my attention is how good the mixtape sounds and how I take care of my music.
It's really weird, but I think that my love for music and how I envisioned myself sharing music with the masses and now I am doing it. I doubt if I showcase this music but it's good to know that I have this cassette because I think this is around the time that I stopped listening to R&B because to me after hearing this talented brother and sister I truly thought Soul music was dead.