This pretty mindless, but it’s raining cats and…well…more cats, and I don’t feel like doing anything productive.
My stereo system is one of those component nightmares that I put together myself and includes the tuner/amp, a tape deck for dust collection, a phonograph for the old Blue Note albums, two 200 CD jukes, a 300 CD juke, and a CD burner, and various speakers (NHT and Klipsch).
ANY way, I have been burning some music for one of my kids who has taken up drums and another who has taught himself guitar (and is truly good at it) to send to them at some point. So I burned a copy of “Elegant Gypsy” by Al Dimeola, then put the new CD in the 300 juke to see if it was okay. Well, no music was forthcoming, so I figured I screwed the pooch somehow and pushed the “open” button to retrieve the disk.
Holy crap, the thing sounded like it was going to self destruct! It was obvious that internal gremlins, wanting the music all to themselves, had grabbed my CD and were grinding the turnstyle gears into so much black dust. I quickly hit the power button to put them to sleep.
I thought, well shit, nothing to lose here, let’s see if I can truly destroy this thing. I removed all the screws that I could see and lifted the top off (not an easy thing, since the aforementioned phonograph sits on top of the player and the patch cords are short which makes it a pain in the butt to move).
A couple of CDs immediately flew out of the innards, whizzing past my head like some sort of musical ninja weapons. I could see the offending disk stuck in the scanner and bent at an impossible angle. So I grabbed the tray and turned it by hand until the lodged disk was free, and gently removed it. I then turned on the juke and rotated through a few disks to make sure all was right. No problems! Cover replaced, cords reattached, all is right with the world.
So go ahead, electronic demons from hell, just try messing with me again. I think NOT!