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This post comes to you from the depths of my basement. This afternoon is rapidly turning into evening as I have been making some serious progress on the Appendix A project today. I’ve got a probable set list for the CD. So step 2 is over.

Step 3, which I’ve been knee-deep in since about 2:00 this afternoon is listening to different versions of the songs to pull out the best one. I’ve also been pulling some of the more “classic” moments off of disk as well, since we may be putting some of those moments between songs.

Here’s how I’ve been doing this stage. To be quite blunt, I’m tired of the basement, so I am pulling all the good moments from each disk into 1 file. Then I’ll chop/edit that file as needed. That way I can do this while I watch The Simpsons or Family Guy. Also, that’ll keep my wife from forgetting what I look like.

Nap time is over now, and the kids (and wife) are stirring upstairs again, so I’m going to call it quits on this for today. You guys are going to love Appendix A. I’m having a blast doing all this work.

Well, I finally gave in to the peer pressure and joined many of my friends over at MySpace. I suppose I should have acted sooner because some other guy already got the name I use on every message board I frequent. Fortunately for me, I’m the only real moreron, so you can see my myspace space over at http://www.myspace.com/moreron.

Come say hi if you want. While you’re there, you can check out my friends and hear some of their really good music.

Liberals are liars, and I have proof. Take a good look at this map of Rhode Island:

Look closely at that stuff to the west and north of Rhode Island. Do you know what that is? It’s called land. Technically, part of the eastern border meets land, but let’s just give Rhode Islanders the benefit of the doubt on that border. So we have, as shown in this picture, a piece of land that borders water on two sides. Go ask the mighty wikipedia what that is, and it’ll tell you that what you have before you is a map of an isthmus.

So how does an isthmus get the “island” title? I’ll tell you how: liberals.

When fighting over a name for their state (and I assume they were fighting because they are liberals), the argument would have been that since the state has islands in it, the state should be called Rhode Island. That logic might work if all the other states with islands (for example, MA, NY, VA, NC, FL, LA, CA, WA, AK, and HI) had similar naming conventions. I certainly haven’t heard North Carolinians running around like idiots asking to have their state called “North Carolina Island,” “Carolina Island,” or some other idiotic “island” name.

But these liberals can’t accept being denied what they want. Losing this battle would mean that they were wrong (island vs. isthmus), and it would also mean they didn’t get what they wanted. We all know how they cry when they don’t get what they want (2000 Presidential election). So they kept pressing the powers-that-be for the right to be called an island. Bring in the 1600’s equivalent of Jesse Jackson and the ACLU and finally, the squeaky wheel gets the grease, and Rhode Isthmus officially becomes Rhode Island.

There is another possibility when considering this “island” issue. That white land mass in the map above is Massachusetts. Do a little research on the history of the state of Rhode Island and you’ll find out that the original Rhode Islanders had one thing on their mind: getting out of Massachusetts. This bit of trivia makes it much easier to sympathize with Rhode Islanders. Even still, those liberals are liars.

It’s time to fight back, America. It’s time to take a stand to set those liberals straight and demand they change their name to Rhode Isthmus. The moral integrity of our nation is at stake. Call your Senators today!

Early this morning - about 1:30 - I stubled through the dark bedroom on my way to bed with a feeling of accomplishment. I feel like I should be in some book of records now. 86 recordings in 41 days is just a little more than 2 per day. Let me tell you, that’s a lot of times to hear “Nothing to Say.”

So today I start the second step of this process. I’ll be reading through my notes and putting together a set list for Appendix A. This second step should only take a couple of days at most. Then step 3 (digitizing) will probably take up a couple weeks. Then I’ll review it, see what might be missing, fill in any holes, and I should have something in Andrew’s hands by the end of the month. That’s the plan.

Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to try to sleep and look productive at work at the same time.

3 more. That’s it. I’ve got only 3 more shows to hear before I’m through with step 1 of the Appendix A process. There’s an Atlanta show on cassette (1999 era) and 2 MDs - one unlabeled show and one Missouri show from 2002.

Step 2 is compiling a list of songs to make the final cut. I’ll be putting that together this week after I finish the final 3 shows.

Step 3 will be underway late this week. I’ll be actually pulling songs from MD (or CD or cassette) and putting together the audio files to send back up to Nashville.

After that, it’ll be out of my hands and up to Andrew to finish up the project. Currently, there’s no release date (that I know of) - only that I think it’ll be done sometime in 2005.