pack it up, pack it in

Well. they're going to have to start showing the apartment soon, so I have to start making it look presentable. that'll be a neat trick, given how much crap I have to pack and how little space I have in which to lay it out to pack it, and then where am I going to put it once it's packed?

So I'm starting off with things we're not going to need for a while. last night I had Dave sort through the loose CDs and put them back in their containers. He has a mania for listening to CDs and then stacking them on the floor instead of putting them back into their cases. Given that we haven't listened to a CD since iTunes came out, it struck me that it was about time to put the stacks away.
So he matched them up with their cases, and in the process we found about a dozen CDs that we'd forgotten to rip, and so hadn't listened to in a year or more.
So, I imported those-- his CD drive isn't very good and if there's so much as a scratch it fails to read the CD. Given that he stacks his CDs on the floor instead of in their cases, of COURSE there's a scratch or fifty on them. So...
Anyway, now I have Mermaid Ave Vol II, L7's Smell The Magic, Talking Heads' Stop Making Sense, Siouxsie and the Banshees' Hyaena, Mighty Mighty Bosstones' Don't Know How To Party, and assorted others safely ensconced in my library, and have driven the total count well up over 7000 songs even when i went and deleted the duplicates I had (to burn an MP3 CD i have to first convert the files from AAC to MP3, and that makes duplicates. I was keeping some, to burn another CD, but decided to just get rid of them-- who else is going to want my entire Bad Religion catalogue? Fuhgeddaboudit.)

Also, Corey was kind enough to send me the mp3 of Subdivision, a song on Revelling | Reckoning that i wanted. So i'm all full of semi-new-music goodness. Which hopefully counts for something in the "motivation" department.

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Did you steal my bongos?

funny. I've loved using Panther ever since I got it, but my computer's crashed twice in two days now, which is more than it ever crashed with Jaguar. I think this is because they just announced Tiger, and Panther is trying to get me to buy the new OS. I smell conspiracy.