Another Note From the Previous Century

Does anyone actually listen to CDs anymore? Plot and Duck don't. So why put the CDs and the CD player and the old tuner back into the sideboard in the living room, where they lived for the last 18 years? What's the point?

The living room, formerly known as Lamar Odomville, is painted and the sideboard got moved a few feet so there was room to fix the walls and paint behind it. It is extremely heavy and no fun to move, so now that it's back it is likely to stay right where it is into the foreseeable future.

But it had to be emptied to even move it a little. Now is there any reason to fill it back up with its old stuff? Is its function as a musical control center gone? As Plotnik's children will tell you, the musician in this house doesn't ever listen to music, and anyway CDs are a disappearing technology. Does this mean the CDs, which have now been packed into a box, along with the tuner, and the CD player, and the record player will get Craigs-Listed out of this house? And what about the speakers?

Does our musical future include an I-Pad, small bluetooth speakers and maybe a flat screen TV in Odomville? Or, put another way, is everything we own now obsolete?

Should we die?

The other week The Great PD had a great laugh at Plotnik's expense when Plottie went to check the yellow pages to get a phone number. "Hyuk hyuk, oh, thou old fashioned relic of a father," he said, or something that sounded like it, getting the answer on his phone in five seconds.

Or, anyway, trying. "Siri, please give me the phone number of Hmong's Hat House." "Did you say Jong's Cat and Mouse?"

Do you listen to CDs? And if so, do you do it anywhere but on your computer? Does anyone?