Our Media Addiction

I love Media Monkey. It's a great way to organize files. Anyways, the auto-organize is the best feature, but of course we all have our own tweaks. H:\MEDIA\MUSIC\$if(<Album>,$if(<Type><>mp3,$if(<Genre>=Christmas,iTunes Xmas Music\,iTunes\),$if(<Genre>=Christmas,Xmas Music\,Albums\))$if(<Label>,#<Label>,<Album Artist>)\<Album>\$if(<Disc#>,$if($len(<Disc#>)<2,<Disc#:2>,<Disc#>) - ,)$if(<Track#>,$if(<Special>=Over100,<Track#:3>,<Track#:2>) - ,),No Album\)<Artist>$if(<Feat.>, feat. <Feat.>) - <Title> That, my friends, is my sorting script. It's made to filter out Christmas music, iTunes files and any special sorting tags. I also have rules for leading zeroes on albums over 100 tracks (Well, 100 OR over, but I'll tweak that later). I also strip out 'featuring' in the title or artist, because it pollutes the artist list with unneeded duplicates,...

So, yeah, fuck Chase. I was laid off back in August and quickly signed up for unemployment. Getting a grand total for $450 a week, plus some $25 stimulus. Checks are sent in two week chunks, so $950 is a normal full check. Obviously being unemployed means cash is limited, so these checks get cashed right quick. My Washington Mutual account was opened IN Washington. Redmond, Washington. But because Chase bought them out, their computer system somehow decided Chase bankers were more important than WaMu customers in states THEY NEVER HAD OFFICES IN, like California and Washington. What this means is that every time I depoisted a check for the last 9 months, I had to wait nearly a week before it was in my account, because they had to mail it to Washington. It was fucking embarrassing going to into a bank I have an account with and being treated like a second class citizen. Anyways, on one fateful day, I popped in the bank with a check, ironically the only full $950 check I ever got. It was...