My Name is Kris and I Blah-g

Ya know when you’re watching a movie and the main character is either desperately looking for something that is like RIGHT there in plain site or they’re sitting on a ticking time bomb and haven’t a clue and you’re sitting there yelling at the screen (as if they could hear you). “It’s RIGHT THERE, you dummy!!!” And then you start to wonder how anyone could be such an idiot and not see what’s right in front of their face.Yesterday I spent several hours compiling music for the big 50th Wedding Anniversary party that we’re having for my parents in August. I was working with literally over 1500 songs and trying to find certain ones that would do well for the dance soundtrack as Mom has told me that she wants to see people out there on the dance floor getting jiggy with it. I’d think of a song and then go see if I could buy it and it wasn’t long that I was just chipping away at the ol’ bank account. Every once in a while I would think of a really cool song and I’d be like DOH! Mike would so have this song! But I’m a moron and melted our harddrive. This is so depressing! This went on for hours… Then I started to wonder if he actually WOULD have the songs I was looking for and instinctively reached over and grabbed his silver iPod that sits on my alarm clock. When he died, I vowed to NEVER take what was on the iPod off. I was going to leave it exactly as he left it. I began to peruse the files that were on there and discovered that he had over 5000 songs on this iPod. Crap. I just found the Holy Grail. It’s all right here! But how am I going to retrieve it all??Google is my friend. I Googled instructions on how to pull music OFF of an iPod. As many are aware you hook an iPod up to a computer and iTunes launches and starts to synch. I didn’t want that to happen and was very paranoid about erasing Mike’s iPod as he had spent hours compiling his music library on it. I found a freeware program that will pull the music off and organize it according to the settings you give it. Not leaving anything to chance, I set up a new account on my computer and made sure to turn off the auto-synch in iTunes. For the first time in 2.5 years, Mike’s iPod was attached to a computer and I started up the program. About an hour later I had restored his library on a new external drive. I may have lost some photos but as for the music? I’m back in business….I have a feeling that maybe someone was watching a little movie called the Life of Kris and yelling at me to find this. What do YOU think?