So hard to love watching the Vikings play. Relieved that we won, but was so frustrating to watching a 10 point lead evaporate in the last 70 seconds of regulation play. Won by a field goal, though. Skol!

Cornflake Girl by Tori Amos

Stark examples of the benefits of vaccines: Battling Infectious Diseases in the 20th Century: The Impact of Vaccines

Meanwhile, Gerry Rafferty’s Baker Street is now playing in the assortment of high-rated tracks I have running. Is anyone doing anything like that anymore?

I love the shoegaze and the _nu_gaze. When the guitar chords and loops get super dense in a wall-of-sound kind of way is when I love it most. The baseline and the drums carry me through. Someday if I have time and budget, I’d like to experiment with filters and reverb and a noise generator.

CD Re-Rip Discoveries:

1. Folks have helped themselves to a few. Have found empty jewel cases and gaps.
2. So much necessary clean-up. Lots of duplicate tracks stemming from a drive recovery several years ago
3. I adore Sigur Rós so much that I had already ingested the CDs with a lossless conversion

If I had a small fortune, I’d buy a bunch of CD Jewel Cases, plus archival inner and outer album sleeves. In general, stuff ages well, but some stuff is still pretty fragile.

I alphabetize my music collections, by artist, then album title. This re-rip project also helps me correct “shelving” errors. Some were minor errors putting discs back. Others have been teaching moments. If I learn something new, it’s a good day.

Made it to “r” in the alphabet before finally deciding to go scortched-earth on the iTunes Re-Rip Project: Capture any ratings meta-data. Delete album. Rip fresh as lossless. Add rating data back. Correct album artwork. Far less frustration this way. Yes, and by iTunes, I do mean Apple Music.

I bet there are going to be a lot of meetings at Netflix after this.