Me and Lucifer, Lucifer and me.

[cyrano]

Here's how it started: Me thinking it's a shame that my computer and car stereos don't have decent sound quality, because it means I have to listen to my iPod if I really want decent sound. Which is tricky in the shower.
Then I thought, Hey. I have a stereo. I stopped playing CDs in it a long time ago, because at one point it suddenly seized up and had a CD-player meltdown. The radio and cassette deck still worked, but no CD. And it wouldn't eject anything, so for a couple of years I had lost whatever was in there.
But! Now I have CD burning capabilities! Although iTunes apparently thinks I should upgrade my hardware, because I'm getting a lot of unknown errors and 'I can't find a disc' complaints. But I finally cajoled it into actually chewing through a copy of "To Serve Moog" and...

My stereo is old enough that it doesn't recognize home burned CDs.

These are the days of miracle and wonder.