I often pop on headphones and listen to the myriad music on my Mac. I do this in part to appear unavailable for chit-chat, drown out the surrounding chatter, and to have some mental trigger that time is passing. Quite often, though, I find that the music just turns into white noise, and I don't really pay attention to it. At the press of a button, I can skip an annoying bit of music, or repeat a pleasant one, but most often it just randomly drifts past.

What I don't realize as this is happening, is the variety of music I have. At one point I ripped all of the CDs in the house; mine, the wife's, the kids'. I've also added a ton of stuff from http://amazon.com/mp3 and other legit sources. There's probably some non-legit stuff on there, too, but not enough for anyone in the RIAA to worry about, I'm sure.

It surprises me sometimes what I listen to, as has just happened, causing me to write this little chuckle of a blog post. I was interrupted and pulled my headphones off. I'd tapped the "stop" button on the side of the headphones as I did so, to stop the annoying ting-ting of tiny music from the little speakers sitting on my desk. After the impromptu meeting ended, I put the 'phones back on and tapped the "start" button (same button...it toggles play). I was greeted mid-song by Paula Abdul singing something. Probably not something I would have picked, but there it was. I let it go.

Right now I have Kiki Dee asking "are you ready?" repeatedly...just saying...it's diverse.