One more answer

tikimama: 'cuz I have a nice job here, and I'm not inclined to move a seven-year-old girl too often in her lifetime.

Denied!

So, I had a huge craving to listen to the original cast recording of On the Twentieth Century an amazingly underrated and overlooked musical. It's quite possibly the only cd you'll find with both Kevin Kline and Madeline Kahn. It also features John Cullum and Imogene Coca (it may be her last performance, actually), the book and lyrics are by Comdem and Green, and the music is by Cy Coleman. And it's one of the CDs I haven't burned to MP3 yet.

So I slip it into the computer. Nothing. Eject, insert. Nothing. I try another CD. Nothing. I restart, try a cd-Rom. Nothing. The drive is dead.

This sucks ass.

But it gets worse.

I dig around and find my trusty boombox that's been my stereo since college. Plug it in, and it works just fine, plays tapes, the radio tunes, etc. Plop the CD in, though, and nothing. The motor doesn't even attempt to spin.

*sigh*

So if I want to listen to music in my office, I can only listen to the 8GB of MP3 files I have. None of which include the ones I'm looking for (and, go figure, I can't find them on the Net, although I can have my pick of songs by Korn or Creed).

Long term plan is to get a nice firewire drive (cheaper than fixing this one). Short-term, anyone have an obscure '70s musical on MP3 and wanna email it to me?

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Well, didn't have the writing period this morning, but got one tonight, and although my creativity isn't as strong late at night, my bullshit factor's on high, so I was able to write my CHUD column instead of the story. All to the tune of Max humping and scratching a cardboard box, because cats know that writers like to hear that sort of thing, apparently. Got it done, as well as a good start on a potential bonus column. And am now exhausted. Going to sleep. Have a handful of LJ comments I need to respond to -- I promise I'll hit them in the morning, really.