Do I H ave to do Them All?

" Everyone come here," my mom said, "I'm going to assign chores.

I groaned. I'd known that it would happen, but I still hated it.

"You clean the library," she said to my sister, "You organize the storage room," she said to my brother.

"Uh-oh," I said, knowing that I was next.

"You rip the music from our CDs onto iTunes." We had hundreds of CDs that no one listened to, so we were putting all the music into our computer digitally so that we could sell the useless hard copies.

I walked down to the computer. I briefly glimpsed a giant cardboard box , and I did a double take. It was filled to the brim with CDs.

"Mom," I whined, "do I have to do them all?"

"Just do it for an hour."

Each CD took ten minutes or so until it was done. I had plenty of time to do nothing, but I had to stay on the computer. I spent most of the time researching some products that I was interested in buying. Most noticeably the Kindle 2. It seems Amazon can delete the e-books without permission, so I was a little turned off, but carrying so many books in such little space would be great. Eventually my hour was up, and I got off the computer.