Continuing with the Joplin/Airplane tape, and specifically the recording of “I Got Dem Ol’ Kozmic Blues Again Mama!” I re-recorded it. If I tinker and fuss, I can get the sound quality to marginally acceptable. But why should I, when I can buy a copy on Amazon for seven bucks? My time’s worth more than that.

Don’t know why the quality is so very poor.

As for the stuff after that on Side 1, it’s a chunk of the first, self-titled album by Big Brother & the Holding Company, the Columbia re-issue with two added tracks — it’s nowhere near complete, only about four tracks, but one of them wasn’t on the original Mainstream pressing.

That’s another seven bucks on Amazon.

As for side 2, that’s the Airplane, specifically “After Bathing At Baxter’s,” “Crown of Creation,” “Bless Its Pointed Little Head,” and a few songs from “Jefferson Airplane Takes Off.” I have all that stuff on CD, so that’s another tape done. Four down, forty-eight to go.

Meanwhile, I’ve been replacing the glitched CD transfers. No problems worth mentioning repairing/replacing “Get Born,” by Jet; “Hello,” by Poe; “Supernature,” by Goldfrapp; “Especially for You,” by the Smithereens; or “Sirius,” by Clannad.

According to the notes I wrote for myself the last two, by Janet Jackson and Robert Palmer, only have one or two bad tracks apiece, so this should be easy.

And then there are the four VHS tapes that turned up, a year after I thought I was done with VHS. Two have been copied to DVD, edited, and finalized, though I still need to make a cover page for the Oct. 1992 episode of Fast Forward. A third turns out to be a copy of the first one — an hour and five minutes of the two hours and twenty minutes of home movies — so I don’t need to do anything with that.

The last one is my sister Jody’s memorial service, which runs an hour and forty minutes. I’ll tackle that eventually.