The Rant Thread/My Life Sucks Topic [Don't be pricks]

[FierceDeity]

Holy shit. That sucks, but at least nobody was home, I guess

[SlowPokemon]

Haha at college I practice piano a few hours a day which is really sucky now because since we live in an apartment I can only practice on my keyboard, and only when my parents aren't home Dx which since I work so much amounts to a few hours a week

[Waddle Bro]

My parents have been clueless that I even own a new keyboard or that I've spent almost a couple of thousand euros to music software.

[Bubbles]

I've got probably the cheapest keyboard (or at least it performs like one) so I haven't played piano much at all this summer. I thought I was going back to my big fancy one tomorrow but apparently I'm not

[braix]

Well at least it gives me time to practice some pieces I find on NSM. >->

[Bubbles]

Actually, I quit piano lessons after ~7 years and went a few on my own. I feel like that was the time when I improved the most, and the majority of my pieces were songs from here, other video game music sites, or random anime songs found on youtube. I eventually went back to lessons but thats just because I have terrible technique and know next to nothing about theory...

Basically you improve when you work hard, and finding a difficult piece from here that i actually knew and wanted to play was enough motivation for me to essentially double my playing skills

[Bloop]

So my friend's going to some mental hospital in The Hague  tomorrow for a total of six months (tomorrow's his birthday. Talk about bad presents) I'll only be able to see and talk to him on saturdays, because he's in that hospital from monday to friday and he'll be packing his stuff and leaving again on sunday (maybe I can talk to him on some chat or stuff that day though).
I hope I won't miss him too much ;_; He helped me so much in the past, although he (seemingly) needs help himself.

Well fuck ;_;

[Maelstrom]

I just spent 2 hours working on a song today, and when I tried to plug in the midi keyboard, it froze, like it has in the past (but only when I unplug it). So I lost that part. But then I did a little, plugged in the midi keyboard, and then saved. So then, when it crashed (after a few attempts to get the keyboard and finale to sync), and I restarted, the file had been corrupted. I opened the backup (from before I made the changes earlier today) and tried to save it as a .mus, but it said I couldn't rename it and I couldn't replace the other file because it was open in another program (it wasn't) so I closed finale, deleted the corrupted .mus file, and go to look for the .bak file.....And it's not there. I even restored my entire recycle bin, but to no avail. I lost everything I had done for that song (about 3/4 done with Wicked Flight). I think I'll take a break from arranging for a bit.......................... 

[FierceDeity]

(not to make you pull your hair out after the fact or anything, but did you try just copying it all and pasting it into another file?)

[Maelstrom]

  No......     
It's too late now...

[Zunawe]

I've mentioned this before, but Finale handles files very poorly. It imports files instead of reading them, and then when saving, it will delete the original and create a new one. Basically, there's quite a bit of room for error when it comes to saving, so (though this should go without being said) save frequently and try to make backups or something early on.

[Bubbles]

So uh how many times can you leave work early unexpectedly before your employer starts to see you as a nuisance ??

[braix]

So uh how many times can you leave work early unexpectedly before your employer starts to see you as a nuisance ??

6?

[Dude]

2-3 imo

[Nebbles]

This jaw pain from getting my wisdom teeth out sucks so bad