Vacation's End

Wow! Two actual weeks off from work. Sadly, I didn't get accomplished nearly as much as I might have hoped to. The best laid plans of mice and men, I think...

But I did manage to upgrade two computers: my home office desktop (which went swimmingly) and the studio desktop (which went about as badly as it could and come out running in the end). Both computers are now faster, having traded in their spinning disks for SSDs. And the additional RAM in the studio computer will also be handy.

Today, Gretchen and I spent some time working on the office closet and the debris field in front of it. The situation is still imperfect, but the closet is now accessible and a good many things have been placed into boxes to be given to Goodwill or taken to electronics recycling. I also filed away a good many things on my desk, which means that half of the desk is vaguely clear and the other still looks like a Matterhorn of paper. But these things take time.

Anyway, tomorrow is back to work. We'll see how things go. :)

Shuffle

One of the other things that happened while I was working on cleaning up my desk was that I found three albums that Gretchen bought for me last Christmas that still needed to be ripped to my music collection and loaded onto my phone. While doing this, I discovered that iTunes had decided to hide my more recent ripped albums in a new place, so they had never arrived on the phone. The net result is that I have gone from about 2800 ripped tracks on the phone to over 3100.

I also discovered that my current phone / car combo will allow me to start playing songs from my phone when I start up the car, stop when I leave the car, and then pick up again when I return. This has led to me listening to a lot of tracks that I haven't heard in a long time.

So for those of you who are Luddites enough to keep downloaded ripped music on your phone or other music storage device, how about hitting shuffle on all tracks and letting us know title and artist for the next ten tracks to pop up? (If you only do streaming, I suppose you can shuffle your favorite streaming source instead. :) )

My list:

Fly Like An Eagle, The Steve Miller Band

Hard Time Losin' Man, Jim Croce

Evil Ways, Santana

The Borderline, Alabama

Remember Me My Friend, The Moody Blues

Growing Older But Not Up, Jimmy Buffett

Play the Game Tonight, Kansas

Lucille, Little Richard

Bobby's Girl, Marcia Blane

If She Knew What She Wants, The Bangles