For a minute there, I thought it had said that aunt Karen had been pruning your iTunes, which made me rather unhappy. But I see now!

I'm sorry you've been so stressed, Lilac. It's interesting to see Evey make an appearance, though.

After a hard drive crash, the files I recovered are often damaged, and there's no way to tell which ones unless they suddenly skip halfway. The only solution is to go through a 600gb library and manually click on the progress bar at the end of every song, and see if any don't play. I'm up to Queen now, I think. Literally doing this by, like a cat, hovering one finger over the precise place, applying just the right amount of pressure, and by tapping on the finger with the fingers of the other hand, I can basically oscillate the trackpad of my laptop to click five or seven times a second. Still slow going.

And Evey is happy to meet you, as always. I'm happy to report the stress is down now that relatives are gone, they're just... they're so draining to be around. Every family has some of those.

Oh no, the tedium of checking all those songs manually! I'm sorry to hear that.

And yes, I understand. I know who they are in my family, certainly.