raybear | You didn't need them, your Sunday friends.

You know, I never find myself listening to a song on the soft rock radio station and thinking, man, what this song really needs is a great R&B remake version. And yet, I can't stop listening to either India Arie's "The Heart of the Matter" (Don Henley) or Angie Stone's "Holding Back the Years" (Simply Red).

I bought this emac in June of 2003 and plugged it and I haven't done jack isht to it since, other than run a virus scan every time I restart it. I think it might be time to updgrade to a new OS system and clean it up, including deleting the tons of unnecessary files and uninstalling programs I never use and all that maintenance stuff that's super super tedious. I mean, I was briefly considering that in lieu of spending $75 on the new OS and doing it all myself, that I would just spend $1,000 and buy a new computer. When there's major resistance, logic can be bent to transform mountains. But, uh, not in a good way. So this morning I thought I would take the first step and 'backup' everything, which for me basically meant burning all the word files onto a CD, because I don't really care about anything else. But my computer initially wouldn't even let me burn a CD because I didn't have enough memory. This got cleared up quickly after I emptied the trash, but still. I need to do something with the 11,000+ mp3 files I have, they are dragging down the operation. This is a slightly daunting task for me. I do have good motivation though -- I bought myself an ipod shuffle. Which is sort of ridiculous to me, I never thought I would get a shuffle ever, it's the least appealing of the ipod family, except I got seduced by the orange. I convinced myself it was worth it for exercising (and copying job). I also had a $25 gift certificate to redeem. But I realized that I might not be able to connect it to my current iTunes because I'm so behind in the OS updates. Which is how I got to this place.

It's spring cleaning in general for me though, as far as urges. I want to clean out the closet of every item of clothing I don't wear twice a month. Purge out my bookshelves. Dispose of the magazines. Get the damn stove and TV off the back porch.

But first, let's start with something small, like taking down the christmas lights in the office.