January 20, 2003

Ouch

Number of records thumbed, read, transcribed onto paper and then into Excel worksheet: 345

Number left out due to a) embarrassment at ownership or b) inability to properly classify (compilations from Warner/Reprise I got hold of somehow?): 15

Knuckles worn to bone from writing/typing: 10

Estimated date of conversion to music pages on website: January 2004 (if I see any more of this stuff before then, I may throw up).

Posted by Linkmeister at January 20, 2003 09:46 PM
Comments

Ha. See, this is why you don't see ME typing lists of my bazillion CDs or my megazillion books. Well. Maybe if I got snowed in for a week or something and had NOTHING else to do. But probably not. ;)

Posted by: Jen at January 21, 2003 02:13 PM

Hey, when you work in accounting departments for 13 years, inventory grows to be important. The shocking thing I learned was that several albums disappeared over the moves I made. Sgt. Peppers? Missing. Magical Mystery Tour? Missing. CSN? Missing. Shriek!

Posted by: Linkmeister at January 21, 2003 02:25 PM

Feh. I WORK for an accounting firm right now. Have done for the past 5-ish years. I don't think I'm going to feel compelled toward this obsessive cataloguing anytime soon. :P

Posted by: Jen at January 21, 2003 04:30 PM

Yeah, but you're not a bean counter; I used to work with/for the bean counters! ;)

Posted by: Linkmeister at January 21, 2003 07:48 PM

You may have missed the news, but I am actually compliance now, not admin. ;)

Posted by: Jen at January 22, 2003 01:26 AM

Did you work in a little independent record company ala the one in "High Fidelity" in another life?????

Posted by: toxiclabrat at January 22, 2003 01:07 PM

Not in a previous life, as far as I know. I did get great deals ($2.50/album) while in the Navy. :)

Posted by: Linkmeister at January 22, 2003 01:13 PM

I'm actually REALLY impressed!

Posted by: JeanNINE at January 22, 2003 02:29 PM

Hey now. I work in the ultimate job! Bean counter for collections of various and sundry objects. Actually, I am not a bean counter but I do have to keep track of each object. I suppose I was destined for the job since I started my database of records in the 1980s on a spreadsheet and that was updated to filemaker pro and now is also in access. I hesitate to say just how many records, cds and tapes I had before I joined forces with my sweetie, but I think it was in the 2000 range. His was about 1500 (and he kept his records in access). We weeded out about 150 cds that we had doubles of. I started a book and comic database and a video database but never got far on them. OK, I am a little too obsessed...

Posted by: bunny at January 24, 2003 03:12 AM

For CD's there are alternatives to hand entry. Have a look at www.collectorz.com for a nice piece of software that I've found very useful.

Posted by: ruminator at January 25, 2003 06:52 PM