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We’re having Thanksgiving at our place this year…

I remember from my youth mom would annually FREAK OUT about the impending holidays and tear through the house like a whirling dervish and clean. Guess I inherited more than an irregular heartbeat.

ALL we did over the weekend was clean… and take massive stabs at the mountains of crap stuff that remained in boxes, (STILL), from the office move.

The back of the house is resembling functional rooms now… The front of the house is piled with boxes marked to go to my dad’s basement for storage. This includes what we dreamed of doing over a year ago:

ALL OF THE CDs ARE BOXED UP….. (they’ve all been ripped to the firewire drives)….
and
ALL OF THE DVD BOXES ARE PACKED…. (we took them out and they all fit nicely in one of those leather case things that holds 230 discs from Target).

The new lack of clutter is so nice… I walked into the back bedroom to get an outfit for today and just stood in the doorway and smiled at the new sparsely furnished room.

I’m discovering that minimal, tidy ORDER to be something like Prozac for me…. No wonder I admire my arty single friends’ pads so much.

I’m discovering that I may be in denial over blogging.

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Maybe it was the funny conversation about audio media that brought this quandary forward in my brain.

I hate CDs.. They take up a LOT of room. No matter what tasteful shelving solution you find for them, they always look junky.

Collectively, we own over one thousand of these little loud pieces of plastic. They nearly occupy one whole wall in the back bedroom.

So… I got this wild hair while daydreaming about future “home improvements”.

Fantasy dream configuration (probably doable with a little budgeting and careful eBay watching):

Sell the two G4 cumberfuck towers, (also takes up too much space) and get Chad and Kevin their own PowerBooks.

Find a second generation G4 XServe and RAID thingie and have them rack-mounted into the closet which is to become bookshelves in the middle bedroom / den-study.

Alright.. that’s the set-up.

Now with the toys out there that enable you to link iTunes to your stereo system, it’s conceivable we could rip our entire CD collection. (with enough coffee and long weekends).

But then what??? If you think about it – it’s all just data anyway… What do we do with the CDs? From what I’ve read, if you set up your RAID right – you can have it mirror so if one drive fails, you won’t loose your files….

If I had a blog – I’d say something about how I always gain alot by folks sharing their insight on stuff.

So… If we work toward “The Dream Config” – and let’s say we rip the music collection either in that native-CD format or Apple’s “Lossless Format” so there won’t be an issue of newer / better compressions coming out in the future….