Ahhh.  Good day yesterday.

Seems that the Executive director is out of the office for the rest of the week.  This alleviates stress because I can get the things on my to-do list done instead of the "urgent" things she thinks up for me. (Shut up.  I am SO organized enough to have a to-do list!  It's in my head and I sometimes forget items, but I HAVE a list!)

It also helps that I got tons done today off of that list, including a project that has been a monkey on my back since before the holidays.  Good stuff for me, I'm telling you what.

But I'm not going to talk about work right now, or whine about stress or even complain at all.  I'm here today to talk about the joy and wonderment that is my new 52X CD burner.

I remember when I got my first CD burner.  It was a 2X.  I could make CDs if I planned far enough ahead.  Not many other people could make CDs at the time, though, and I really had something.  I was all into making CDs and shit.  I made some odd music mixes, but not TOO many... damn... blank CDs were almost five dollars each!

Soon, the luster of that first burner wore away.  I no longer liked making CDs, because it took to friggin' long.  And really, I was pretty damned addicted to the Internet back then, and couldn't be without my Pentium 133 with the 33.6 modem for the 40 mins it took to make a disc.  Life, my friends, is TOO SHORT.

Two years ago, I bought a new computer.  It came equipped with an 8X drive, and I was once again happy.  Bear in mind that two years ago was the height of this Napster stuff, so I had lots of illegal stuff to burn.  But soon, the luster and the gloss wore off of the 8X. 

Last fall, I started seeing these faster burners out.  40X? 46X? That's madness!  I couldn't believe that such a thing existed!  But it DOES!  I have one!

And so now, I'm burning weird CD mixes again, unhampered by the expense of blank media.  Watch out:  you may someday run across my mix of bird songs.  Disco Duck, Funky Chicken, Rubber Ducky, Yellow Bird... it's a whole theme.

Yeah, I need a better hobby.

Tim! Funny we should both be writing about yoga. Mine was a near-death experience, and yet here I am. Alive, I tell ya! I'm alive! Yee-ha!

AH! I did yoga for the first time last night. LOVED IT!

Speaking of plunging CD-ROM prices, check on www.niftyness.com/nndd... Every once in a while, he'll post a deal on spindles of 50 or 100 CD-ROMS for free or pennies on the dollar. In fact lots of toys can be had for cheap by following his leads. I bought a pretty decent Canon printer that does borderless 4x6 photos at a surprisingly good quality for $30!!