Well, I think 10 out of 10 people polled say “no money for people who come to your door to beg!” Excellent.

I decided, in preparation for my grandma’s visit, I should do some cleaning this weekend. The bathroom really needs a good scrubbing. And I did clean, in my own way. I’m tired of all the music that’s on my iPod and hard drive. I wanted some new stuff. So I unpacked a box of cd’s. I never unpacked them when I moved in October. Now, first I had to make room on my old computer to store more mp3’s, which turned out to be a bit trickier than I thought it would be and I had to go into Terminal and get all sudo and chmod on it’s ass. But finally it was clean and sparkly and I had cleaned off 10gb’s of crap. So I unpacked the box. I cataloged each CD into my Delicious Library, setting aside the ones that did not bring up a cover image, so I could scan them and make one myself. Seriously. Other’s I set aside to rip mp3’s from. The rest, I put away in alphabetic order. [except for the soundtracks.] All that took hours, 147 cds. And there are two more boxes. But it’s just the type of “cleaning” I like. And if you box up all your music for over 6 months, when you open it, it’s like brand new stuff! You are so excited because you have not seen these cds in so long.

I was thrilled to see my really old Chris Isaak stuff and my Peter Gabriel cds. My Sarah McLauchlan and Letter’s to Cleo. Cherry Poppin’ Daddies and Jesus Jones. So fun! I still have a pile of cd’s to work through, ripping to mp3. I don’t know if I will finish the boxes before this weekend or not. I really should do some kind of “practical” cleaning. bah.

In Sims2 news, it starts shipping today. It won’t be in stores for another…. 3 days 10 hours and 25 minutes as I write this. I know because aspyr has a nice countdown clock on their website. And no, I’m not just sitting and staring it, in anticipation… much.