Rant #3,682: ABC

Today begins my back-to-back day of meetings horror, so I am going to sneak this Rant in before I have to join the meeting at 8:30 a.m.

These are my final days of being age 67, leading up to my 68th birthday next week.

I finally catch up to my wife, who turned 68 five months ago.

I don't mind being the young'un in our marriage.

My father was in a similar position with my mother, being eight months younger than her--and their union lasted nearly 65 years.

I hope my wife and I can duplicate that, or at least come close.

It should be a fun ride as we strive for 65 ... or something close to it.

In the meantime ...

I went from box to box today, trying to find the next section of my records as I try to get them in alphabetical order, box by box, as I prepare for my record rack to cone and be set up.

I have everything from Abbott and Costello  through the Boomtown Rats all ready to go. 

But I cannot yet find the next box, which would be the remainder of the Bs and the beginning of the Cs ... including my David Bowie collection.

It's here somewhere, packed in a box that is buried under another one, and probably another one.

I am trying to save myself some time when the record rack comes, because if I have to alphabetize this one by one, it is going to take forever.

I am hoping against hope that the records were put in some type of order when they were originally packed away during our first move--

When I was incapacitated and others packed the records away.

I just hope they did it in some type of order ... if not, I am sunk.

It is not just getting them in alphabetical order by artist; it is putting them in order by release date.

You can't have "Meet the Beatles" coming after "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band," If you get my drift.

I will figure it all out.

I did it when i set up my albums in the racks I had in the old house, and I will do it now with the racks that are coming to the new house

But first things first--

I have a conference to cover, and I better get a move on.

Speak to you later this week.