October 3, 2025 - There is always one more.

 I started a new side project. I came up with the idea by setting out to do something else. Every new year, in January, I make dvd backups of all the new music I acquired in the previous year. The years end will soon be upon us so I thought I'd pick up a spindle of blank DVDs. On my way to Staples, the thought occurred that I could just use an external drive to back them up on. I found a cheap thumb drive, less than 20 bucks so I decided to try that out. I have found that you get what you pay for. It was on sale for a reason. Frustrated, I checked the hard drives I have here and i did find one with about 350 gigs of free space on it, so I decided to store all the music backups I have on that one drive. The ones that I do have date back to 2010 and I should be able to get all those on there. I'll pick up a newer drive later and transfer them all to that.

Then, I had a lightbulb moment. I found another drive where I could temporarily store a large amount of files. On that drive, I created a folder called Backups. Inside that folder I created sub folders for 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2009. Then, I went to my master drive and started going through each folder looking for albums released in those years. The theory is that I will in this way create backups as far back as 2000. Once I get the new drive, which I presume will be a terrabyte or two, I'll transfer all the backups to that one and then create backups of the 1990s and then the 1980s and then the 1970s and so on. It should take me about a year. Or longer.