tulips, 5.1.03

So I’ve begun compiling the scattered MP3 collection I have laying about on CD, removable disk, hard drive and laptop. Currently, with the stuff in constant rotation on the laptop (approx. 6 gigs) and the stuff from the removable drive, I have almost 12 gigs of music burned and catalogued. I’d love to have it all on OSX in iTunes, but for peace and paycheck’s sake it’s on the PC. The good news is that it looks like Apple is going to develop an iTunes client for Windows as well. That means the 100-disc CD carousel which does not remember how to play within groups will most likely go to the living room and the PC will take over as the house jukebox. Now to figure out how to wire the house from the PC.

I’ve also taken the drastic step of buying one of those CD book things they sell at the Target in the interest of throwing away all four hundred jewelbox cases that sit around the house collecting dust. Problem is, after pulling the sleeve inserts and CD’s from the cases, I can’t make the leap to throwing away the jewelboxes. It seems wrong and somehow very wasteful to just chuck all that stuff out. I’m going to check into recycling and see if the city will take them; that means, however, that i have to go back and pry the backs off of each one to get the rear insert out. Joy.