I want to publicly state that my husband is so cool. He performed a labor of love. In fact, he did it twice.

Months ago he began ripping our CD collection into iTunes. Then for some reason — a chip hiccup, something with one of our drives — it was all wiped out. He’d done half, I think. With a sigh (and a few swear words), he started again.

Well, the project is now complete! We have a family cache of songs — 401 albums by 240 artists in 19 genres of music. Lately I’ve been playing it randomly. In the past hour I’ve listened to Damien Rice, the Eagles, Def Leppard, Tori Amos, the Crystal Method, October Project, the Capitol Steps, Animaniacs, the Sex Pistols, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Simon & Garfunkel, the Police, Concrete Blond, Fourplay, Bach, the Barenaked Ladies, and James Taylor. It’s my own private, noncommercial radio station: KAML. 🙂 And now, ’tis time for sleep.