Jimmie Spheeris wasn't a very prolific artist, laying down a couple albums in the 70's, and all his stuff has gone out of print. As a result, all the used copies of his album are for sale in the Amazon Marketplace for anywhere between $150 and $250. While I have been in places in my life where I would have considered spending that amount of money in the hopes of feeling better, even if just for a moment, it is beyond a lot of people's wills to pay a ransom like that for something that should never cost more than $15.

With this in mind, I immediately went to the Internet to see what I could find about Jimmy Spheeris and the availability of his albums. I found out all the information above about the discs and the ransom that people were asking, and then I went to iTunes to see if, by chance, someone had made the disc available. I found that it was available on iTunes for $9.90. All you have to do is know how to grab iTunes and burn a disc. But lest you take that knowledge for granted, not everyone in the world is hip to iTunes. I had that information and I was able to grab the songs, burn them to a disc and hand it over to someone who was about to take part in a little time travel.

The look on her face when I handed over a CD that she had talked about so longingly in the half hour prior was a combination of disbelief, relief and pure happiness. While you and I both know that I didn't do all that much that most of you couldn't also do, it's kind of the right place, right time thing and I was happy that I could do something for someone yesterday.

But now that I am a day removed from this, I can't help but wonder - now that she has most certainly listened to the CD - where the pickle is on the wall, now that she has listened to the disc. Did it stick up near the top where she threw it, or did it slide all the way to the plastic molding that sits between the dry wall and the floor?

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