80 degrees and humid tonight: it felt like running in a sauna.
Currently at the top of my Safari Reading List: the html review.
Frequency of ear hair trimming is on an un-shocking uptick. 🙉
The walk-up Dairy Queen re-opened. I guess spring is back.
It feels good to be squared up on our taxes already.
I have the best wife.
Routine and focus are some of my favorite things
and on the flip side…
leafy sun diffuser
South Carolina 2023 taken by Angelica
The Bible Experience
About a month before Christmas I played a free sample of The Bible Experience–The Easter Story–for Ethan in the car. He was attentive. It occurred to me that the full set must be available somewhere. I had obtained that sample maybe 15 years ago.
Today, I ordered a new/old copy of the The Bible Experience on CD, a 79-disc set listed as “unopened”.
It was the same price as a single audio file through the Apple Book Store plus shipping and tax. I read a review that the compressed version sounded tinny and that it was a single enormous file and not fun to navigate. Shuffling through 79 compact discs and trying to rip them into a fluid structure sounded way more appealing to me.
UPDATE: 1/18/25 Got to disc 11 and the last chapter of the disc is unreadable along with the closing theme music. I tried probably a dozen times to extract the file. It is disappointing because the discs were supposed to be never opened. I wonder if it is possible that simply by being shuffled about for 17 years, it could have degraded while never having been used. Regardless, I am hopeful that there is a way to extract that final file… I have tried cleaning already. Next, I will try to get an alternative cd-rom. After that, I could try some sort of repair option…. but that makes me a little nervous.
UPDATE 2/16/25 I found someone on eBay selling individual replacement discs and bought the single disc for about $6 with shipping.
UPDATE 7/9/25 My original post included links for the two eBay purchases. When I checked back, the first link redirected to an active listing of the same item by another seller and the single replacement disc link was dead. Lesson learned, eBay. I updated the first to Amazon in hopes of preserving future readability/enjoyment and removed the second. Ideally, I would like to find a way to preserve those more niche links. For me, sharing the actual listing was part of the fun of this post.
I also added a link to the Apple Book Store item.
Also, I am considering re-ripping the 79 discs to mp3 files instead of m4a.