Since I’m not driving straight to Montgomery when I move next month, I decided I’d better adjust my CD/Cassette offerings to ride with me in the truck. I can usually find a decent radio station, but why should I have to bother? Sure, the easy answer is to get satellite radio, but, again, why should I have to bother?

I’m still a bit old-fashioned, so I got the combo CD/cassette player radio option when I bought my truck. I still have cassettes–don’t use them much now that I have CDs, iPod, RealPlayer, etc, but they’re around. This may be my last vehicle with the cassette option, but I digress. ADDED NOTE: Yes, go ahead and say it, “You are so two years ago.” I’ve already been informed. My reply: “I’m a dinosaur. I’ll do it my way.”

For my road trip listening pleasure, I’ve chosen the following (feel free to listen along on June 15, 17, and 23 (those will, as far as I can tell, be my driving days):

CDs:
Unabridged audio version of Albert-Laszlo Barabasi’s Linked
Jimmy Buffet, License to Chill
The Doobie Brothers, Greatest Hits
Jimmy Buffet, Meet Me in Margaritaville
Kathy Mattea, Walking Away a Winner
Mark Wills, Wish You Were Here
Terri Clark, Greatest Hits (1994-2004)
Bruce Springsteen, Born in the USA
Bangles, Different Light
Jackson Browne, Lives in the Balance
Phil Collins, No Jacket Required
Eddie Money, Can’t Hold Back
Boston, Boston
Pam Tillis, Greatest Hits
Shania Twain, Come on Over
Kathy Mattea, The Innocent Years
Little River Band, Get Lucky
Huey Lewis and the News, Fore
Kathy Mattea, Lonesome Standard Time
Willie Nelson, The Promiseland
Jimmy Buffet, Songs You Know By Heart
Fleetwood Mac, Rumours
Lonestar, Greatest Hits
Bruce Horsnby and The Range, The Way It Is

Cassettes:
Charlie Parker, Jazz ‘Round Midnight
Chuck Mangione, The Best of Chuck Mangione
Icelandic Radio (taped off the radio in Reykjavik back in 1988)
The Forester Sisters, The Forester Sisters
Robert Palmer, Simply Irresistible (single)
George Carlin, A Place for My Stuff
The Doors, The Best of the Doors
Tanya Tucker, Girls Like Me
Kansas, The Best of Kansas
The Fifth Dimension, The Greatest Hits on Earth

Move preparations are crawling along. My attic is empty, swept, and closed up. My living room is ready for the packers to come–stereo is boxed up. TV, DVD, and VCR won’t be boxed until later. I’m nearly done sorting things in the bedroom–what gets packed and what goes with me. I’ll have to spend some time in the kitchen, but that’s mostly to make sure the cleaning supplies are separated so I’ll have them here to clean the house with after my stuff is gone . I have more boxes to break down for recycling (why do I feel compelled to keep every box from mailorder stuff I get?). I also have tons (well, maybe a hundred pounds or so) of papers to sort and either file, toss, or shred. I have until June 5th to finish most of that. Then, on the evenings of the 6-8th, I’ll be making sure what I need to take with me is separated and safely ensconsed in the garage–that’s going to be my area to keep them out of the stuff that goes with me or that stays in the house. Before the packers come, I also have to make sure everything I plan to take with me is likely to fit in the truck or on the motorcycle trailer. Hopefully, the morning of June 9th, I’ll have everything disassembled that I want disassembled, and everything I don’t want them to mess with safely out of their way so all they have to do is pack my stuff very carefully. Moving is such fun. I’m just thankful I don’t have to pack and move it all myself. Pray everything arrives safely.