I always said, when someone finally figures out how to make buying music easier than stealing it, thats when people would stop stealing it.

Back in the day you had to drive to a store and buy an actual CD, un wrap it, ugh, what a pain.  Napster was 100x easier than that.

But then they shut down Napster, and Kazaa got filled up with malware, and IRC was *always* a pain.  So for a long time there I didn’t download anything at all.

But then Bittorrent came along made things bearable.  A solid check mark goes for getting whole albums at a time … but then you had to get whole albums at a time.

So last night I was wading through google trying to do mp3 searches of open directories and it was just getting me no where.  It seems spammers and squatters have setup camp on that whole methodology.  Then on hype machine, I happened to notice there was indeed a button for “Buy now on amazon”.  It was only $0.99.  I figured, F it, its worth $0.99 and amazon is DRM free.  One click later, and here comes the download.

So I guess they finally did it.  Buying music is easier and more convenient than stealing it.  Congratulations music industry, you’re figuring things out.

Slowly.

We just had a firedrill here in 101 Marietta, and after walking down all 17 flights of stairs, we were funneled outside.

And just who happens to be standing there, speaking on his cell phone?  You guessed it, freaking Al Sharpton.

Yeah, WTF is what I said too.  How freaking random can you get.

30 Days of Bootcamp sure did seem to fly by.  But, I made it, and had perfect attendance.  Our group started out with 45 (or was it 60?) people, and by today, the last day, we were down to like 16.

All in all it was a really great experience.  It was incredibly hard, but totally worth it.  I ran varsity cross country in highschool, and it seems since then I haven’t been in any kind of group environment like that, until bootcamp.  The instructors were great, the workouts were dynamic and challenging and everyone was really cool.

I think in all I’ve lost about 8 pounds.  In 4 weeks I think thats actually bordering on unhealthy, but I ate almost perfectly clean the whole month with no cheating, so combined with the intense workouts every single day, I’m not surprised.

I’m definitely going to go back.  They have 3-month passes that can be used any time over the next year.  I’m going to try a month or so on my own though, and see if I can take what I’ve learned and continue the same regimine on my own.  I seriously doubt it, but we’ll see.