Your Mix Tape's A Masterpiece

Allow me to descend into computer geekery for a while:

The last couple of days, I decreed a need for repairs to my computer before I get started on some projects, so I've been organizing things and defragging my hard drives. It's so easy to type that sentence out, while it takes so long to finish defragging 60 GB at a time, especially when I was just now able to keep my media drive from crashing the system every time I started the defrag. So, yes, my poor computer's been chewing through about two years' worth of fragmented goodness for a day and a half. After it's all done, though, I can get rolling on my other goals.

One of those goals I started earlier this year. I have around 3700 songs in my iTunes library now, and I thought one day that it would be neat to see if I could try listening to every song in the library at least once. iTunes keeps track of play counts, so it should've been a simple matter... but not when you keep adding a bunch of songs at a time through new CDs and downloads, my friends. I'm currently about two-thirds of the way through the library. We'll see how far I get before clearing all the play counts and joining a support group. I'm a musical nutjob, and I need to be stopped.

I've also devoted a lot of time recently toward going through all my old mix CDs that I created over the last five years or so. Part of this is to really look at how my musical tastes have grown in that time, but the other part is to make sure that, somewhere, I still have a copy of all the songs I used on the mixes. The idea here is to ensure I'm not missing some critical piece of my personal music history, and unfortunately, it seems that I am in a few places. So, I've begun a search for a few oddball songs that have somehow disappeared from my hard drive during my college years. I've also been adding these mixes as iTunes playlists, so I can listen to them iPod-style. This may seem a bit much, but to me, my mix CD's are not only a pretty good snapshot of what I listen to at a certain point in time, but they also are inexorably linked as reminders of what's going on in my life at that time. If you make a lot of them with care, I'm sure you know what I'm talking about.

To offset this proud geekery, I've also made it a practice to not forget to play guitar for at least 30 minutes a day, every day. It's all part of the master plan to not get bored this summer, and to enjoy every free day to its fullest.

News bits of interest: London got the 2012 Olympics bid, and I'm sure Daryl is happy that it didn't end up in NYC. Plus, SciFi's Battlestar Galactica remake is airing all of Season 1 today in a pre-Season 2-premiere marathon, and though I've never watched it before today and haven't seen any of the original series, it's probably my new favorite summer show. Way better than Reality Show of The Week.