If the Apocalypse comes...

Last night, I went to make my usual evening cup of tea.  When I opened the pantry, I was a tad startled to see this:

That's three (3) boxes of 100 tea bags of Earl Grey tea, one (1) box of English Breakfast tea, the tin on top of the stack of Earl Grey also contains most of another 100 bags of Earl Grey tea.  The clear container is plain black tea, probably about 50 bags(?)...and that purplish tin that you can spot towards the back contains a bizarre concoction of green tea an rice.

So, if the Apocalypse comes, come round to my place, and we can sit round watching it while sipping tea.

Musical musings

Ugh...I can't believe how long it's been since my last post...thanks, Blogger Dashboard...

I have no real excuse beyond the fact that I have a feeling that a situation at work was making me feel rather disinclined towards writing anything, although I do have a couple of notes stashed away where I had thoughts about writing up stuff for the blog, and never felt motivated enough to do so. Fortunately, the work thing's sorted out, now, and I was thinking about my blog the other day, and how as it's entitled "Smerk Musings", I should put out some thoughts.

Anyhow, musical musings for now. Music's been on my mind the past couple of weekends, as due to the misguided aggression of the in-built computer clean-up tools on antivirus software, and a user issue of not understanding fully how these things worked, ended up resulting in my digital music library getting decimated.

Fortunately, my CD collection isn't huge - I've probably only got around 100 or so - if that. And I haven't been brave enough to make forays out into buying music online. Mainly because my current MP3 player is not an Apple-based product, and therefore doesn't play nice with iTunes (or is that iTunes doesn't play nice with non-Apple MP3 players?), and haven't exactly gone searching for other online stores, anyhow.

Another plus point that made the job a little less mammothy was the fact that most of my CDs had been ripped on another computer (my little laptop doesn't have a CD/DVD drive!), so the majority of it had been saved to an external hard-drive and is mostly intact. I still found a couple of instances where a song had been deleted from the external hard-drive, or I'd ripped a CD using another computer to a little flash drive, which due to the size of the things, I obviously deleted the music files once I'd transferred them to my computer.

Anyhow, I ended up managing to sort everything out, and get everything labelled correctly (it's very frustrating to find that a number of albums with wrong artists attributed to them, or is that just me being pedantic/OCD?).

So, I can now see that (according to the way Windows Media Player orders things):

- Artists: *NSync with "Bye Bye Bye" (just the one *NSync song, I swear!), to the Zutons with "Runaway"
- Songs: "#1 Crush" by Garbage to "Zyryab" by Paco de Lucia
- Release years: 1973 (Beatles best of 1962-1966) to 2010 (Triple J's Like a Version volume 6) and a large number where I couldn't spot the release/copyright year on the CD or CD sleeve
- Length of song: 0.15 for the Bazmark Fanfare by Baz Luhrmann to 21.46 for Infinite Joy by Ken Davis

All in all, I apparently have 134 hours of music...doesn't seem like much, really.