Music

Last week my hard drive crashed and had to be replaced. I wasn't able to recover anything, including the 100+ Gigs of music I had. I was pretty upset. The only thing besides my wife that I love more than books, is music. It helps me focus, soothes and calms me. When something is bothering me, or I'm upset, or in a good mood, I want to hear music. Even at work I usually have music on. So you can imagine how I felt when I realized I'd lost it.

Being totally bummed about the loss, I started trying to figure out how I was going to replace what I had. Then I remembered I had let a friend at work borrow a bunch and asked if I could copy it back to my external drive I keep in my backpack. My friend told me he had some music there I could take if I wanted along with the stuff I had given him. Cool! I would at least get a few thousand songs back. I connected my drive and realized I had just hit the jackpot! Not only was I going to recover the 10-15 Gigs I had given him, I grabbed almost 100 Gigs of awesome music he had!

Now I'm sitting here going through the new stuff I got and some really awesome memories from my younger years are flooding back. Music is so powerful! I'm grinning ear to ear, my wife is smiling, and even our son is commenting on the awesomesauce I have added to the music library. It's a good day!