There are always more interesting things to do

I have awaiting me a short laundry list of things to do (including laundry) that is being creatively avoided. My most recent distraction was found in the form of a great program called MusicBrainz Picard (yes, like Jean-Luc). A while back, some nasty glitch in iTunes erased all of the data that identified a good chunk of my music, leaving me with 500 or so "unknown album/artist/title" tracks, scarring my music library. I went on a cyber-search to find a program that could recover this information, and I found something even better.

Picard is a program that takes an "audio fingerprint" of an MP3 file, and analyzes it against a vast, open-user internet database of files that is added to any time someone uses a MusicBrainz program. Not only did it recover all of the lost information, but it is now going through my 4,500+ songs and adding all the details it can find, plus album art! Take that iTunes! However, the process isn't that fast (as should be expected), so this should take the better part of several hours to complete. Should be worth it, though.

What else has gone on during this extended weekend? Thanksgiving was good...since my folks just sold their house and moved in to a rental (in preparation for moving back to the Cities), they had no place to go for Thanksgiving, so my family and Alison's family joined forces and had one big brou-ha-ha. It was a good time. Yesterday, Alison and I went on a date to celebrate our 1-year engagement anniversary. We went to Buca, which was awesome, and then to the Tenacious D movie, which was wretched. I don't know what we were thinking, but it sucked.

Today I went to Hastings and played frisbee and ate burritos with Phil, Ryan, and a bunch of other Hastings type folk. I haven't played ultimate since before I hurt my knee. It was good to be back in business.

Other than that, things are pretty normal around here. I'm looking forward to getting my band concert ready, and getting it over with. December 14th (and really the 22nd) can't come soon enough!