As you may (or may not) have noticed from the recent changes to my mp3 library, i've spent a fair to enormous amount of time ripping CDs over the last few days. When i first starting converting my CDs into mp3s, i only ripped the songs that i really liked ... for example, while ripping Automatic by the Jesus & Mary Chain, i only bothered to grab "Blues From A Gun" and "Head On". Whole albums converted to mp3 were the exception rather than the norm. I did that both because of time and storage efficiency. However, now i've got a 120 GB hard drive on my work computer that's only 40% full, and space is no longer an issue. So i've decided to fill in the holes persay, and rerip albums in their entirety. I thought this little endeavor would go quickly, but oh how wrong i was. I'm through the M's now (got all the Manic Street Preachers albums last night), and i've got a tentative list of the CDs remaining to be ripped ... all 135 of them.

Our days in Boston are dwindling rapidly. Veronica and i started cleaning a bit last weekend ... yes, the movers are doing all the packing, but i think it would be a bit tacky to expect them to pack a disorganized, bursting closet and a counter full of unwashed dishes. The gravity of it is beginning to hit me ... i only have a few weeks left at the CMIR! How the hell did that happen? As sad as i am to be leaving my MGH chums, the thought of getting back to California never fails to bring a smile to my face. I wonder if the terrible economy, energy problems, and that ridiculous campaign to recall Gov. Davis will change that. Probably not.