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I broke down and bought an MP3 player the other day. It's just a cheap, outdated, obsolete 2 gig dealie that was being used as a display model and was now being sold on clearance. All told, I paid about $30 for it. I didn't think I'd need any more space than that. So, I brought it home and started filling it up. I have about 7 gigs of MP3s on my hard drive. I've spent a good four or five years collecting it (understandable when you realize very little of it was pulled off of CDs and none of it is widely available on this side of the pond). When I finished uploading all the music that I could stand to listen to on a daily basis, it took up about 600 megs. I still have two-thirds of my tiny drive empty. I think the wheat/chaff ratio of my music collection is a little borked. I would like to correct this, but most of the music communities that are the main reason I joined LJ in the first place have long since dried up and died.
In the meanwhile, what the hell do I do with the 6 gigs of music that didn't make the cut? It seems like a waste to delete it, especially since it's not like I hate the songs; I just have to be in a specific mood to want to listen to them. At the same time, that's a lot of hard drive space that I could use for other things.
A "better" blogger could probably turn this into an anti-consumerism rant, or a life-affirming "out with the old" style call for everyone to examine what's really important in their lives, but not everybody wants or needs every event in their life to have deep, hidden meanings. And NOBODY deserves to read someone waxing philosophical due to tangentially related boring crap that nobody cares about. Sometimes a post is just a post, problems really are as small as they seem, and there doesn't need to be a point to doing something beyond doing it for its own sake.
In the meanwhile, what the hell do I do with the 6 gigs of music that didn't make the cut? It seems like a waste to delete it, especially since it's not like I hate the songs; I just have to be in a specific mood to want to listen to them. At the same time, that's a lot of hard drive space that I could use for other things.
A "better" blogger could probably turn this into an anti-consumerism rant, or a life-affirming "out with the old" style call for everyone to examine what's really important in their lives, but not everybody wants or needs every event in their life to have deep, hidden meanings. And NOBODY deserves to read someone waxing philosophical due to tangentially related boring crap that nobody cares about. Sometimes a post is just a post, problems really are as small as they seem, and there doesn't need to be a point to doing something beyond doing it for its own sake.