Conspiracy Theory

I'm convinced that there is some sinister conspiracy going on to prevent me from listening to my favorite CD.

As some of you may know, my car was broken into in 2003 while I was still living in the Elyria "ghetto". The thieves / operatives took my car stereo and the 10 cds that were in the car at the time. 9 of the 10 stolen cds were just burned copies that were easily replaced. However, one of my favorite cds of all time, Vertical Horizon's Live Stages was also taken. This was my original disc, not a burned copy like the others.

I thought the car stereo was the original target of the thieves, but recent events have convinced me that the stolen stereo was just a diversion for the true target: my Live Stages cd.

I ended up purchasing a second copy of the Live Stages cd and life returned to normal for about 3 more years.

During that time, I went through the exercise of ripping my entire music collection to mp3s so that I would, never again, lose one of my original cds.

Fast forward a few years to 2006. My Live Stages cd almost never left my car's cd changer...for when it did, it was put back in rotation within a matter of days. You can imagine my surprise, then, when I discovered that my Live Stages cd was not in my cd changer, was not in my car at all, and was not in my apartment either!

The thieves had struck again! They must have been watching me for 3 years, waiting for that perfect moment to swoop in and take my replacement copy of Live Stages! At least this time they left the cd player intact (no...my new car was not broken into).

I was pretty upset that my Live Stages disc was gone. However, I was comfortable in the fact that I had a digital copy of all of my cds on my computer. But, like the sneaky Secret Service Agent Cummings on 24, the digital archive was tampered with and all traces of the recording erased!

(There's a small possibility that I never ripped Live Stages to mp3 because it never left my car...but I'm still convinced that it was a stealthy ninja garden gnome)

Now they had taken TWO copies of my favorite cd and erased all digital copies of it as well!

I have now purchased a third copy of Live Stages and made sure that the first thing I did when I got it home was rip it to mp3.

So if the conspirators/thieves/garden gnomes who have been infiltrating my cd collection are reading this...be aware that I have made a copy of Live Stages and gave it to Dick Cheney to be held securely in an undisclosed location.

Who needs an mp3 player?

Some people with too much time on their hands figured out how to make a HP ScanJet scanner play music. Even a video clip for your listening pleasure.

Home videos

Year	Description	Length
1982	Eric & Dinah	00:29	View
1982	Evan sings ABCs	01:16	View
1982	Eric's 1st Birthday	04:51	View	NEW!
1982	Eating breakfast with parakeet	03:37	View
1982	Thanksgiving - Cooking dinner	01:37	View
1982	Thanksgiving - With the Bublicks	08:08	View
1982	Thansgiving - Wrap Up	01:45	View
1982	Evan's bank, Eric's diaper	05:24	View
1982	Bathtime	06:52	View
1982	Hanukkah - Intro	02:03	View	NEW!
1982	Hanukkah - Blessing the Candles	01:39	View	NEW!
1982	Hanukkah - Opening presents	08:03	View	NEW!
1983	Evan's 3rd Birthday - Intro	01:14	View	NEW!
1983	Evan's 3rd Birthday - Evan with balloons	00:38	View	NEW!
1983	Evan's 3rd Birthday - Party	08:24	View	NEW!
1985	Grandpa Ben poses Eric and Evan for picture	00:58	View	NEW!
1985	Evan/Eric Birthday - Before the party	02:44	View	NEW!
1985	Evan/Eric Birthday - Party	03:46	View	NEW!
1985	Evan/Eric Birthday - Quacky the Clown performs	13:13	View	NEW!
1985	Family playing in backyard - Buffalo - Version 1	08:20	View
1985	Family playing in backyard - Buffalo - Version 2	11:00	View
1985	Whole family playing in backyard - Buffalo - Extended version	26:14	View
1986	Eric & Ross on bed	00:59	View
1986	Kids in PJs	03:40	View
1986	Eric & Ross - Storytime	06:20	View
1986	Eric & Ross story time - Extended version	08:50	View
1986	Eric Reading	05:40	View
1986	Party with Marcus, Silver, & Baraskys	01:59	View
1986	Eric's dream	03:38	View
1986	Jakki eating breakfast	01:01	View
1986	Reading on the couch	02:05	View
1986	Buffalo Trip - Playing in front yard	15:46	View	NEW!
1986	Murder Mystery Party	21:32	View	NEW!
1989	Buffalo Trip	19:52	View
1989	Buffalo - Naval Park		View
1989	Boatwright Van		View
1989	Evan's lob ball game		View
1989	Ross' Soccer game		View
1990	Eric's 8th Birthday		View
1990	Ross' Letter People (M)		View
1990	Ross' Paper Chain / House tour		View
1991	Eric's Magic Show		View
1991	Ross fooling around		View
1991	Piper playing with ball		View
1991	Eric's 9th Birthday		View
1991	Playing with Toys		View
1991	Ross Reading		View
1991	Ross' 7th Birthday party		View