On Socks and CDs

The disappearing and sometimes re-appearing of socks is well documented. Re-appearances are usually in asynchronous pairs, obviously.

I have noticed the same phenomenon in CDs and their cases. Some of my favourite CDs have had a habit of vanishing. In some cases, when I finally gave up and threw away the box, the CD then turned up. One particular album went missing and I actually threw away the box and bought a fresh copy. Whereupon the original disc came to light, only to be subsequently followed by the loss of BOTH discs.

However, today I did actually find both copies of A Secret History by The Divine Comedy, hiding behind one copy of Dad Rocks (disc2) in a Hoosiers box in Matt's room. That solves that particular mystery.

I was doing a large-scale cleanup of my discs because I have been loading them into iTunes - hence the search.

I am late to iPods, but now that Karen bought me a nano for Xmas, I am discovering what everyone is so excited about.

It looks like by the time I have finished with the uploading, I may have about 2,000 songs on the tiniest thing - the incredible fact is that the 1in x 2in (maybe it's a bit bigger than that, but not by much, and it is as half as thick as the slimmest mobile phones) has to contain a screen, a battery and the actual storage gizmos. Incredible.

So far I have not tried the iPod in action at the poker table. I am not sure I will - I prefer to be able to hear everything that is going on. But it is great for the daily cycle.

I am a convert, no question !