And thanks to you all once again for doing this. You have provided me with all kinds of incentive to have fun transferring some things. I've not installed the software yet. Right now we are too all consumed dealing with life stuff to even start yet. Chris WILL get here and do what needs to be done, if not sooner, then later will be fine too. Right now the energy isn't there to do much but "take it slow and easy"---as the old song says.

On an existential note, it is strange but all the talk of degrading CDs doesn't bother me anywhere near how it would've hit me 20 or 30 years ago. When 45 rpm records went out, I saw the value of LPs but mourned the passing of the old technology. Then my favorite LPs would get gouged, and I knew it was the end of the world. (It wasn't, of course. It was only the end of the world as I knew it.) Eventually, all the music I loved got stuck onto reel-to-reel tapes. They didn't last, so I saved what I could to cassettes.

Being on the road for a living, I tended to give away (potlatch) all the old items of the various media. It seemed in keeping with showing others what I had found. Rich Remsberg got ALL the reel-to-reel tapes. The LPs went everywhere.

Now CDs are showing their true fallible faces to us. ------ And I can't get bent out of shape too much.

The humor comes shining through, though! (Or should that read "though through"?) What a difference an "r" makes---for whatever that's worth.

The more things change, the more they get different!! (But only sometimes.) With all the music I have hear now, I am certain I'd never get to play half of it before it was time for me to click off this "motel soil"---to paraphrase Shakespeare. Life, sometimes, does seem like an overnight stay in a most fascinating wilderness campsite...

Art (with thanks for you all)