ROCK!

Awesome. Thanks, Erin. You rock almost as hard as I do on Guitar Hero.

Thank you, Cleveland!

Yes, of course, this is hello.

This is funny. Long, but funny.

I win.

Renter's insurance came through. Yay.

The ex-roommate needs help, mentally. I'm not going to take this person to small claims court, but I have a feeling that this person will feel some consequences eventually. Or at least sometime near December. This person is good at one thing, though, burning bridges. I've never seen anybody burn them so easily.

Not my problem, though. I'm done.

I lose, part two.

I took a little trip yesterday to go inspect the contents of box #3. Nothing in that box is mine.





As the sheriff's department considers this theft a civil matter and won't do anything about it, my next step is to sue in small claims court. Hooray.

I lose.

There's really not much I can do with the whole CD collection issue other than sue in small claims court. I know where the CDs are, but I can't go get them myself because then it'll look like I'm the one stealing them from the ex-roommate. And taking matters into my own hands (self-help, in legal parlance) could land me in jail on a domestic violence charge.

A King County sheriff's officer I talked to today said that they consider this a civil issue and not a criminal issue, so that's why there's not much they can do about it. At this point, I feel like I'm pretty much screwed. Because, well, I kinda am.

I've filed a claim with my insurance. While I do not have receipts for the property, I do have it all inventoried. I hope that the insurance will come through, somehow, but I'm not particularly hopeful right now.

In the meantime, the ex-roommate is making other peoples' lives a living hell. It looks like someone else is now going to have to go through an eviction proceding against the ex-roommate, even though this person's technically a houseguest.

I flippin' LOVE this state!

Boxes, continued.

There's box #1. None of my CDs in it.

Well, the week got off to a decent start. Sucks it has to end like this. Time to make a phone call and file a report. Sigh.

Nice.

See the middle finger in this one? Classic.





What you're seeing are pictures of the contents of two boxes that were in my garage. There are three boxes. None of them are in my garage at this moment. My ex-roommate took them when moving out of my house. The story this person maintains is that I gave permission to use my boxes for moving. Sure I did - empty boxes! And several empty boxes were taken and used.

But, these three boxes had the contents of my CD collection. Looks like this person placed some of their stuff at the top of these boxes so I can't see if my CDs are even still in there or not. Maybe they've been pawned already. The good thing is that I have a database of ALL of my CDs. I know what I lost. These pictures came to me from the ex-roommate this evening via cell picture message.

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Boxes

Why are these boxes in Bonney Lake and not in my garage? Hrm...







I'm beside myself with frustration.

Bags

A coworker sent me this link.

"It's that bean bag game you see being played more and more in backyards, alleys, bars and the parking lot at U.S. Cellular Field."

I propose instead of calling it cornhole or bags, that we just call it fun bags. What a hilariously inappropriate name! Kinda like cornhole!

My iTunes Obsession

The image above represents just the music I have in my iTunes library. I've seen larger, but I keep stuff I will actual listen to. My goal is to listen to every song at least once a year.

I have completed a huge project with my iTunes library. Last year, I was loaned a full iTunes library from a friend. Rougly 150GB of content to go through and pillage. A lot of it was just garbage. I ended up keeping only about 6GB of music from it. Keep in mind that it contained both music and videos and I only kept music.

The iTunes folder, when I started the project on 7/26/06, had roughly 5000 or 6000 subfolders to go through. I just finished it today, almost a year later.

I ended up adding about 1140 new songs from this library to mine. I'm very anal about adding music to my collection. Everything has tags that are as accurate as the data on allmusic.com. If album artwork exists, I add it to the track.

I feel a certain sense of accomplishment now. Ahhh...