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This past weekend was the anniversary of my apartment being burgled. Without real intention, I marked the occasion by finally loading the rest of my CDs into iTunes on my Mac. I still have not replaced all of the CDs that were stolen; a few are irreplaceable, a few others I may not bother replacing, and the rest I either haven't found used or just didn't feel like buying them when I saw them. I'm still reluctant to re-buy them, particularly the ones that I still have saved as MP3s on my Mac.
Incidentally, there has been no further news on the matter of the person caught with my stolen checks. I never wrote that I did meet with the police detective, answered his routine questions and identified my checks. The detective said I might be called as a witness if it did go to court, but he thought most likely the person would make a guilty plea and it would be settled without trial.
I just bought a DVD burner drive for my computer, so I ought to be able to back up all of my music onto a few DVDs. That'll be useful in the future when I reformat my Mac, which it looks like I will have to do soon. Currently I have three partitions: 8 gigs for OS X and the major apps, 2 gigs for OS 9 in case I need the older stuff, and 20 gigs for my user folder, and a few games are installed on that partition too. But that 15+ gigs of music is now taking up most of the third partition, and I'm only going to be adding more.
However, first I have to get the stupid power connectors for the existing CD and Zip drives to disconnect, so I can remove the old CD drive. I simply found it impossible to pull them out - as far as I can tell, there aren't any latches or hooks holding the connectors in place, they simply wouldn't budge. That made me very angry, and also made me feel like a super wimp - but that's a topic for another post.
Incidentally, there has been no further news on the matter of the person caught with my stolen checks. I never wrote that I did meet with the police detective, answered his routine questions and identified my checks. The detective said I might be called as a witness if it did go to court, but he thought most likely the person would make a guilty plea and it would be settled without trial.
I just bought a DVD burner drive for my computer, so I ought to be able to back up all of my music onto a few DVDs. That'll be useful in the future when I reformat my Mac, which it looks like I will have to do soon. Currently I have three partitions: 8 gigs for OS X and the major apps, 2 gigs for OS 9 in case I need the older stuff, and 20 gigs for my user folder, and a few games are installed on that partition too. But that 15+ gigs of music is now taking up most of the third partition, and I'm only going to be adding more.
However, first I have to get the stupid power connectors for the existing CD and Zip drives to disconnect, so I can remove the old CD drive. I simply found it impossible to pull them out - as far as I can tell, there aren't any latches or hooks holding the connectors in place, they simply wouldn't budge. That made me very angry, and also made me feel like a super wimp - but that's a topic for another post.
