Heavens, I left a book off of my ridiculous simultaneous reading list the other day: Dreams of a Robot Dancing Bee by James Tate. Add the Schuyler to the list and I am in the middle of way too many books. Has anyone read The Route as Briefed? I’m enjoying Tate’s prose, which honestly is so much like his poetry that I don’t discern a heck of a lot of difference.

I failed to waste the day completely, but this is perhaps because Ladybug came home from camping earlier than expected and I was able to goof off with her for a while. I must say that I like being around her more than I like not being around her.

Thieves in Myanmar are stealing womens’ hair. The filchers target women in crowded areas, sneak up, and snip away. This is somewhat awesome. I mean, it isn’t, but it is.

The ginormous hard drive I use for music only is full. That’s 180 GB, or about 180 days of music without a repeat (unless I happen to have two copies of the song because of Greatest Hits collections or soundtracks). Seeing as how I would like to add some more songs to that drive, I suppose I will have to do some paring down. The completist in me, the obsessive collector, cringes at the notion of deleting the half-star (yes, I rate by half-stars) and one-star tracks that belong to full albums, even though I usually skip through them. Who owns the most stinkers in my iTunes library? Poi Dog Pondering has more half-star tracks than any other band, I think They Might Be Giants and Paul McCartney tie for one-star tracks. But I’ve probably only rated about 1/6 of the library. I have grand dreams of one day tagging/rating everything just so. But that is 36,000+ items… so it’s not a weekend project. I had a lot of it rated before I lost all that data in August because of iTunes 7.

Other random stats:

• Five-star tracks: 435
• Four-star tracks: 700
• Three-star tracks: 1646
• Most played: “We Used to Vacation” by the Cold War Kids and “Greeting Card Aisle” by Sarah Harmer, 21
• Last added: “One True Vine” by Wilso” and the new Polyphonic Spree album
• Now playing: “Heart of Gold” by Tori Amos (3 1/2 stars)