Uncle Roger's Notebooks of Daily Life
My life is, to me, ripe with frequent challenges, occasional successes, spontaneous laughter, adequate tears, and enough *life* to last me a lifetime. To you, however, it surely seems most pedestrian. And therefore, I recycle the name I used previously and call this my Notebooks of Daily Life. Daily, because it's everyday in nature, ordinary. These conglomeration of events that are my life are of interest to me because I live it, perhaps mildly so to those who are touched by it, and could only be of perverse, morbid curiosity to anyone else. Yet, I offer them here nonetheless. Make of them what you will, and perhaps you can learn from my mistakes.
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Monday, June 13, 2005
If you're the sort that takes your CD's with you to listen at work or in the car, make a backup first and take the backup instead.
It is legal to make a backup copy of your audio CD's (heck, of any CD). If you do so and take the backup copy with you, then you won't be upset if it gets stolen, ruined by heat (a parked car gets hot!), scratched beyond recognition (or at least beyond readability) or otherwise damaged. You've still got your original and can make another copy for another seven cents.
It can be quite devestating to have a bunch of CD's stolen, especially if they were hard-to-find, rare, or otherwise special discs. I know this because it happened to me nearly ten years ago. I was working at Hewlett-Packard and had a stack on my desk to listen to throughout the day. Someone, overnight, took them all home with them.
Interestingly, they left the CD player, with one of the actual CD's still inside. Alas, some of these I still have yet to replace. Some of them are irreplaceable, truly. Here's the complete list (dug up from my ever-expanding hard drive):
| Artist | Album | Status |
| Johnny Nitro and the Door Slammers | Car Fixin' Blues | Replaced |
| Johnny Nitro and the Door Slammers | Drinkin' Triples 'till You're Seeing Double | Replaced |
| Procol Harum | The Early Years (Case only, no disc) | Still have the CD, still don't have the proper case. |
| Pink Floyd | Dark Side of the Moon (Gold Disc) | Getting by on the other two copies I have. |
| Govi | Cuchama | Not Yet Replaced |
| Govi | Passion and Grace | Not Yet Replaced |
| J. Geils Band | Flashbacks | Not Yet Replaced |
| Squeeze | Singles | Replaced |
| Ace of Base | The Sign | Replaced |
| Dr. John | Ultimate Dr. John | Not Yet Replaced |
| Dr. John | Afterglow | Not Yet Replaced |
| Proclaimers | Sunshine on Leith | So that's why I can't find that album! (Not Yet Replaced) |
| Beatles | White Album (Early version in two separate Jewel Cases) | Replaced (but with newer double-jewel-case version) |
| John Lee Hooker | Chill Out | Not Yet Replaced |
| Notting Hillbillies | Missing...Presumed having a good time | Replaced |
| Dire Straits | Money for Nothing | Now I know why I can't find all my Dire Straits albums! (Not Yet Replaced) |
| Dire Straits | Telegraph Road | Not Yet Replaced |
| Eric Clapton | Unplugged | Replaced |
| Eric Clapton | From the Cradle | Replaced |
| Lynyrd Skynyrd | Skynyrd's Innyrds | Not Yet Replaced |
| Elvis Costello/Brodsky Quartet | The Juliet Letters | Replaced |
| Paul Simon | Graceland | Replaced |
Hmmm... It looks like I've got a bunch of shopping to do. In any case, had these been copies on CD-R, this would not have been an issue; I would have simply made a new copy of each.
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