15 Day Increments, Not Weekly, Not Daily

I am going to track the reconversion through a separate page, rather than burying it in the flow of posts. Look to the Pages list to the right.

Another Career Update

First, just for the record, last night, we did not have Lou's Classic Ride rehearsal. For the record and because I may not always remember what I did, here it is: I watched TV and fell asleep relatively early.

Thinking about it today, I realize it would have been a good night to work on the conversion projects, but I did not. I was tired. The day began by taking the boys (Sam Goldsmith, Seth Goldsmith & my son, Alex) to basketball practice at Iowa City West in the morning. This meant my alarm went off at 4:30 AM. Alex and I left the house at 5:10 AM and by 6:00 AM, I was sitting at my desk. It will be the same schedule tomorrow as well. Alex's team voted to have an early morning practice, mainly so the team will be free to watch the Iowa / ISU men's basketball game tomorrow night. The team's original schedule was for them to get done with practice at 6:30 PM. Because I am an early bird type of person, I volunteered to drive in the morning, even though I think that getting up early will result in not working on the conversion tonight.

Second, the reason for my post. In my cubicle, I have a schedule for a document that needed to be written. These were the project milestones:

• First Draft Complete: 12/6/13
• Development Review Complete: 12/10
• Updates Complete: 12/11
• Development Approval: 12/12
• Published: 12/13

I am happy to acknowledge I *did not* keep that schedule. This is the actual schedule:

• First Draft Complete: 12/6/13
• Development Review Complete: 12/12
• Updates Complete: 12/12
• Development Approval: 12/12
• Published: 12/12

I was done an entire day EARLY!! I received information about some UI changes on Tuesday, 12/10, and then, yesterday, I was in a 1 hour meeting where the document was reviewed. After the meeting, I made the updates. This morning, I sent the document out! I am happy to have completed this work.

And the Winner is... Alev's "We Live in Paradise"!

I began the process of reconverting on Sunday, December 1, 2013, @ 8:15 AM and the first CD I converted was Alev's "We Live in Paradise."

I will have a project for the next couple of years. I see 3 major groups os CDs to convert:

1. 2600 CDs on 26 spindles
• That is not 2600 'albums' as I have several data CDs with multiple releases.
2. 1000 CDs that are on one of my 2 wooden racks.
3. 480 CDs from Mitch
• Using the Craigslist site for Indianapolis, I connected with Mitch, who was selling CDs. When I returned from Indianapolis and the National Catholic Youth Conference (NCYC) from 11/21 - 11/24, I brought with me 4 zipper cases of CDs. His ad said "500 CDs for $225" but my official count is 480.
• Some are bands I listen to on a regular basis:
• Alice in Chains
• Stone Temple Pilots
• Some are bands I do not listen to on a regular basis:
• Smashing Pumpkins
• The Cure
• Ben Folds Five

I look forward to working on the conversion. I did not do so last night, but I plan to do so each night the rest of this week.

To Begin Again

After a short break, I'm sitting in the den with a CD ripping. For the sake of documentation, I re-converted my first CD at 8:15 AM on 12/1/2013 and it was Alev's "We Live in Paradise." I am going to add a tag "Conversion Projects - Redo" in addition to the existing "Conversion Projects" tag so I can separate the two conversion efforts.

I am also going to keep track of my file count for the redo and what percentage I have redone compared to where I was when the 1 TB hard drive failed, which was 64603 File(s) 541,778,588,259 bytes. For the sake of clarity, I'm going to say my previous conversion was at 64600 (minus 3 files) just so it is an even number. I'm pretty sure I had at least 3 duplicate files when it died.

In the meantime, I'm working on a list of all the directories I had so I can create a separate page on this blog and track when I reconverted the CD. I have an issue that I had a lot of folders / albums that were not physical CDs - they were downloaded from youtube.com, they were downloaded from publicists, they were borrowed from friends / family / neighbors and ripped, and I'm sure a lot of other ways that I can't think of right now. Thus, when I am 100% complete with the process of ripping every CD I own, the numbers between what I had and what I have will probably be somewhat close (because of the 480 CDs from Mitch in Indy), but it will not have my entire collection. It's not a 1:1 anymore.

I hope that this all makes sense when I am rereading it in the future. I will say that if my 1 TB hard drive ever comes back from the dead and I can retrieve my files, I can't honestly say that any hours I put into reconverting will be wasted hours.

It's 9:31 and I told Megan I would go with her to 11 AM Mass at 10 so that she could sing. Karen's in the shower but I need to slip in and be done prior to 10 AM. I don't know if I will play drums at Mass - it'd be okay to do so, but I need to be ready.