How To Deal With An Earworm

For the past couple days or so, our constant companion has been an earworm of various extended snatches from the Bach keyboard partitas. Not too shabby as earworms go, we'll grant you, but an earworm is an earworm all the same, and earworms are, well, damn annoying.

What to do?

Well, if you're going to hear those partitas no matter what, you might as well hear them in the flesh, so to speak. And so, adopting the principle of, "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em", our solution was to slide a CD (Gould, natch) of the first five into the ol' CD player, press "Play", set the repeat function to "All", and let 'er rip which they've now been doing for the past twenty-six hours straight.

Simple, but effective.

God bless technology!

(Speaking of which, we've been without a computer for the past month as our trusty but ancient Dell desktop machine bit the proverbial dust early in January; ergo, our absence here. It's now been replaced by a sleek, handsome new Dell Studio laptop (our very first laptop), and apart from a couple startup glitches which may or may not be permanently fixed, and a keyboard layout that's driving us batty and will continue to do so until we get the feel of it under our fingers, we love it.)