Check-In Post May 20th 2023

[badly_knitted]

Hello to all members, passers-by, curious onlookers, and shy lurkers, and welcome to our regular daily check-in post. Just leave a comment below to let us know how your current projects are progressing, or even if they're not.

Checking in is NOT compulsory, check in as often or as seldom as you want, this community isn't about pressure it's about encouragement, motivation, and support. Crafting is meant to be fun, and what's more fun than sharing achievements and seeing the wonderful things everyone else is creating?

There may also occasionally be questions, but again you don't have to answer them, they're just a way of getting to know each other a bit better.


Today's Question: No question today.


If anyone has any questions of their own about the community, or suggestions for tags, questions to be asked on the check-in posts, or if anyone is interested in playing check-in host for a week here on the community, which would entail putting up the daily check-in posts and responding to comments, go to the Questions & Suggestions post and leave a comment.

I now declare this Check-In OPEN!

Comments

[badly_knitted]

Beautiful weather today, and I should have been outside working in the garden. Instead, I stayed in cutting bases for spiders while using an old laptop to rip CDs so I can add them to the music on my current laptop. I hate that they no longer have disc drives. I have all of my music on my hard drive so I can can listen to whatever I want without messing around, but my previous laptop gave up the ghost before I could get all my CDs ripped onto it. I only made it halfway through W, and I've acquired more CDs since then *sigh* The worst part is, I have to type in all the details, all the tracks, for every CD because the old laptop can't get the information online. Takes forever.

[wiseheart]

The little things that make our lives miserable. :(

[badly_knitted]

They expect you to pay to download music you already own *rolls eyes*

[wiseheart]

Not that I'd actually understand what you mean, but it is shameless anyway. (I don't have music on my PC. I've never downloaded anything else but fanfic and a few photos in the 20+ years since I went online for the first time.)

[badly_knitted]

I have an extensive collection of music CDs, so back when computers had a disc drive I started copying them onto my computer. Makes listening to music so much easier, and I can download whatever songs I want onto MP3 players if I want to have music when I'm gardening. Now there's nowhere on laptops to insert CDs because they expect people to use spotify or things like that, where you have to subscribe, or buy the songs you want. I'm not paying again!

[wiseheart]

It is all a big conspiracy then. Just like the fashion industry that only aims at half-starved rats, so that their cronies who sell the diets that never work can make more money. Or the gyms where people waste their time in the hope that they'd lose weight permanently. Neither of which really works. I know. I tried. Never again.

[badly_knitted]

Everything is a conspiracy so some people make more money off the rest of us *sigh*

[yarnofariadne]

It took me ages to rip my CD library on an old computer, but I'm so glad I have my full library now. Such a pain to do, though.

[badly_knitted]

It does take awhile when you have several hundred of them... Worth it in the long run though. I have them all backed up on an external hard drive as well, or will have when they're all ripped.

[celli]

augh, what a hassle!!!

[badly_knitted]

Yep, but the end result will be worth it.