I had to pick and choose which songs would go on the iPhone. Now the 16GB is out, and would be fine. But, I do not have it. My dad is making noises about getting an iPhone. I'm thinking about telling him that I'll pay the extra $100 if he gets a 16GB, and give him my 8GB, all set up.

yeah, I just paid over $800 for data recovery. I want a non-HD back-up.

Well, with a HD backup, you just have to make sure your back-up HD is working. If it dies, you gotta run out and buy another one right away. So there's a gamble that you might have to spend $ in the future for a new drive, plus the slight risk of your iTunes library dying on your machine before you can replace the back-up HD. OTOH I've had old backup CDs of music become unreadable....

The ideal solution? Two back-up HDs. Or, you know, a disk array of some sort.

I think as people rely more and more on iTunes (or similar) for their music, and as HD prices continue to fall, you'll see more and more people having multiple HDs for backup.

I've heard that the next iteration of the iPhone is due soon, probably at the next WWDC in June, so it may be worth the while to at least wait until then. Otherwise you may get jammed up with another $200 reduction in price...

Oh wait, I have a 16GB Touch, not an 8GB. But still, half the capacity of my old 30GB iPod Classic and I'm not hurting for space.

This is why I'm scared to get rid of the CDs I really like!

I'm still happy I got rid of original CDs. I can get a lot more songs on each CD by burning them as MP3s, plus I have very few in-tact albums on my iTunes anymore, there usually at least 1-2 songs I dislike on an album.

This is why I'm scared to get rid of the CDs I really like!

When we were moving to Michigan, I began packing our CDs.

Aimee said "No, we'll sell them. They're all on the Batcomputer anyway!"

And I said "What if the Batcomputer crashes?"

And Aimee said "You need a bigger box."

So I go to bed early for me. And then wake up late. And get stuck behind a cement truck going a whopping 15 mph. And then there is some sort of meeting no one told us about so the parking lot was full by 9:30. And there are delivery trucks blocking the turnaround where we pull in to get overflow parking passes and stupid people blocking the road. I have to park in East Siberia and suddenly oversleeping by 30 minutes makes me an hour late.

Crabby.

And there are delivery trucks blocking the turnaround where we pull in to get overflow parking passes and stupid people blocking the road.

Something in the water today maybe? People were driving keerazy at 6:15 this a.m. when I was on my way to yoga class. Some bitch nearly plowed into me when she passed me on the right as I was trying to get into the right lane to exit.

I have a good friend here (actually, Miss P's mom, the one I saw give birth) who would dearly love to set me up on a blind date. However, she knows I'd kill her if she did. She still makes tenative forays and sighs when I give her the look. If you were in B'more, I'd sic her on you. I almost feel bad for thwarting her inner matchmaker.

You know there are other single ladies of your acquaintance in B'more, right? I'm just sayin'.

So while I was browning the ground beef for chili, Olivia poured out a whole cup of milk into the couch cushion and Owen dumped half a box of kosher salt.

That reminds me of the time Leif and Emaryn had dumped eggs, and ketchup and some other stuff on the carpet in her room. I caught her going back there with a bottle of maple syrup. Her excuse for doing this (Leif was toddler age, but Emaryn was not) was that her arms and legs were not under her control and made her take things from the refrigerator to dump on the carpet in order make a recipe.