You sure will notice when you are in a place where, just like you, everyone have five sets of the same outfits in their closets. :)
While ripping from CD is an highly satisfying activity, looking back there is no reason we should hold CD quality as the target - I mean, if MP3/AAC sounds identical to lossless compression, why bother with formats magnitudes larger? <-- Me trying to persuade the flac/wav/alac hoarder inside myself.
Similar thing with images...I still have an irrational attachment to the "original" images, including photos I took myself and album covers, even though they are most certainly different from what I actually see and are not even RAW files. This is why I avoided taking photos and preferred recording everything in text, the one thing we actually know how to store lossessly.
The weather is so great today - blue sky, sunshine, and all that. Made for a very comfortable run. Yesterday on the other hand was horrible: overcast, with short bursts of snow storm hitting every few minutes like thousands of tiny cannon balls, producing metallic noises as they smash on to my glasses and face. There were a few time I could hardly see what is in front of me and felt I was pushing through the snow and wind. I guess Bad Company could be a really scary stand. Fubuki is really the better word than snow storm to describe the situation. Fortunately weather clears up a bit as the day breaks. I was surprised to find myself rather dry after the run though - probably won't be the case if it were a summer storm.