Hidden Melody

For some time, I’ve been wondering whether I should try to write a light novel (or even a short story for that matter.) A couple of years back, I started to write a story called "Tsubasa," and as usual lazyness insured, so I never wrote anything past ~4 paragraphs.  And the idea was pretty good (even though it was a little cliché, mind you,) basically the synopsis was that a young girl who possesed a gem/stone that was passed down from generations, was eventually passed down to her from her aging grandmother. Basically the legend of that stone is that when the possesor’s life was in danger it would grant that person the ability of flight (the reason why I named it "Tsubasa".) I still have that file kicking around somewhere on my computer converted into Word 2007 format.

Lately, that thought has gotten stronger, and now I feel like I should try to write about something.  I am not too sure what it’s plot will be, or what genres/clichés will be present, but maybe… if it is good enough quality maybe, just MAYBE I might attempt to get it printed, or try to find someone who would be interested.  Time will tell.

Lately I have been having this weird problem with my sound:  For most flash videos (youtube, other websites, local) it makes crackling noises.  When I play music either in iTunes or Windows Media Player, when it crossfades the music seems to jump around during the first ~10 seconds, from a part of the song that happened about 1-2 seconds before.  I never had this happen until very recently. 

I already tried to roll back my drivers from the installed Realtek one to Microsoft’s default one (High Definition).  After testing for a little while, I then updated it back to the Realtek drivers, and so far it’s been good except that (as far as I know at this moment) after the crossfade in iTunes it skips around for <= 2 seconds then it’s fine, although playing more songs now, it doesn’t seem to happen now.

I figured that since I have been messing around with the default sample rate, that could have been the problem, so MAYBE the driver rollback and update wasn’t necessary.  Even if I have said this alot, "If it’s not broken, why fix it?" I still seem to not learn.  It’s human nature.

One more thing to note: When I posted this arseload of text that you’ve just read, the sound "skipped" (I said "jumped" earlier, but who cares? :p) Stuff happens, I guess.