Month: March 2025

So my Ryzen 5 CPU was overheating and I tried to clean it off. I had a liquid cooler on it which seemed to be malfunctioning. In the process of trying to get everything off the motherboard, the CPU pins bent so I had to purchase another CPU. The one I had in there was a 6 core processor, and I replaced it with a Ryzen 7 5800XT processor which is 8 cores with 4 “virtual” cores for a total of 12. I can tell the PC is moving a lot faster now and it’s pretty cool.

Another upgrade I did was I found a 3070ti on sale on NewEgg for $400. They allowed you to do a payment plan on it, so I went ahead and purchased it. I’m upgrading from a 1070ti which was crazy outdated at this point. So now I have an 8 (12) core processor, 24GB of RAM, and a 3070ti in my gaming desktop. It’s a nice machine and plays any game I throw at it with ease.

I’ve also done 3D Mark on it which is a benchmarking application and it scores pretty decently. I’d like to upgrade to 32 or 64GB of RAM just because RAM is so cheap these days. I added a 1TB m2 drive in the second m2 slot on my ASUS ROG STRIX B450-F GAMING motherboard. I use that drive only for PC games which is nice.

I have a huge backlog of games to flip so I’ll be busy with it for a while. I’ve also started taking a course on Unreal Engine/C++ coding on Coursera.com. I think coding would be a good career change for me and I’d enjoy it very much. I’m tired of IT and the politics and things that go along with it. I’m sure there’s that in any field, but I’d rather work solo with me and my code. Time will tell if I can find the time to practice coding between music production, djing, gaming, lifting weights, etc.

I just have to manage my time a lot better than I currently do. I need to stop watching Twitch and Youtube so much, or at the very least do something else at the same time I’m listening to the video on either of those services. I’ll get er done. L8r.

So I recently purchased a $15 Kalimba, which is a “finger piano” of sorts. It’s pretty cool, and I saw a guy use it in a beat-making video a while back, so I’ve wanted to get one and try using it in my own music making. I just uploaded a new song to Distrokid, but I’m kind of unhappy with how the synthesizer turned out in that song. I’ll do better next time.

I believe the Kalimba is an African originated instrument, as a lot of them are, and I wanted to try it out myself. I don’t plan on trying to become a Kalimba Grandmaster, but I’d like to play it to a degree in some boom bap, lo-fi hip hop, or future hop beats I might make. Once I incorporate it into a beat, I’ll make a Youtube video about it and review it and show how I used it in the beat. Should be fun.

I’d also like to get some bongo drums, because as Richard Pryor was once quoted “Black people are very visual and we know the drum”. That’s very true about myself as well, so I think that would be a cool instrument to pick up and play around with. I worry about how loud it would be in this apartment though. Hopefully, if I get one, I could figure out how to play it when it sounds like my neighbor isn’t home. It’s not like playing a whole dang drum set, but it still makes noise.

It’s Saturday night and my wife is sick. If she doesn’t get better by tomorrow afternoon, I’ll take her to the emergency room and have them run tests on her to see if there’s anything we should be worried about going on. I’m taking good care of her and she’s resting, but I don’t want something major to happen and have hindsight show that we should have moved on it sooner. Anyways, til next time readers. Stay up! L8r!

So I made a post a little while back where I talked about the power of the pyramid. We mainly know the pyramid from Ancient Kemet or Egypt if you will. There are pyramids all over the world, including in the USA, but “they” don’t tell you that. With that said, I’ve always felt a very strong connection to ancient Kemet. I remember as a boy, going to a King Tut exhibit at the museum and it really resonated with me for some reason. I was too young to put my finger on it, but it definitely felt feasible and familiar to me if I could put it that way.

I’m not saying it was triggering past life memories or anything like that, but it definitely felt like something that was akin to myself. At that time it didn’t really register with me that they were black people either. I honestly didn’t know what they were, but the people being talked about in the exhibit didn’t somehow “remind” me of the black people I was growing up around on the southside of Chicago.

I need to study that time in more detail, to truly understand the knowledge they held and how it relates to us in this modern time. Those people were monotheistic, meaning they had a singular “Most High” GOD, and subsidiary GODs beneath him. Whether you’d call them angels, saints, or lesser gods, I do believe that on the organization chart of heaven/divinity, there is a group of entities that report to GOD.

I don’t know what happened to those people, but I do know that the direction we are headed in can be no better than the one they went in. Some say they were usurped by an evil reptilian race and the utopia they lived in was destroyed in the wake. Some say GOD destroyed them. I don’t know what to believe, but I do know there is power within the pyramid. Perhaps I’ll start there.