laurel's online journal

In all the chaos, I forgot to say...

I FOUND THE CD-RECORDER MANUAL!!!!!!!!!! WOOHOO WOOHOO YIPPEE YAHOO HOORAY WOO!!!

It was in a very weird place that I never would have thought to look - with my scrapbooks. Okay, whatever, Laurel. Putting it with the other manuals, no, that wouldn't have made sense at all.

And then the recorder stopped working properly. -_-;;

For some reason, it won't record from CD to blank CD the normal way, but I did get it to work by analog recording where I attach my boom box to the recorder and play/record that way. Ahhhhhh... my need to make mix CD's is appeased.

( A little about what the move was like - why the Richardson Police rule )

I hate my stereo sometimes. This all started when I bought it, in 1996, and one of the speakers stopped working well within weeks of buying it. I should have taken it back and seen what could be done about it, but I was lazy, and I don't think I kept the receipt. Something like that. So, I just lived with it. Eventually, I took an old speaker from another stereo, stripped the wires, and plugged it into the back of the stereo, which worked. This stereo is weird, where instead of having some sort of connectors on the speakers, you just jam bare wires into two holes and close them up. Electric shock, anyone?

This worked for a while, but on occasion, one of the speakers will go out, and I have to strip more wire and jam it back into the stereo (meaning that the wires get shorter and shorter each time). Normally I wouldn't care because you can't really tell anyway, and if I turn my music up too loud, my dad gripes about it, so whatever. BUT, for some stupid reason I cannot comprehend, my CD recorder will only record in mono unless both speakers are working. I have no idea why, because the speakers aren't even hooked up to the CD recorder--they're hooked up to the main stereo, which the CD recorder is hooked into. But still, that's what it does. I can tell because the Left and Right stereo indicators show me--only one of them will light up, while the other does nothing. Then, when I play that CD in my computer or discman, it will only play in one speaker. That sucks, so I have to fix it before I can make anymore CD's. I don't want them in mono. It's much more noticeable when I play them on anything besides my main stereo.

This is just a pain, because I have to basically clean off my entire dresser, turn the whole stereo around, and work on this stupid thing before I can make the CD's I was all ready to make. Grrrr. It's like driving at full speed into a brick wall.