wandering thoughts: no tv and unoriginal mix cds

yes, it's early friday night, and i'm at home, soon to go to sleep. because i don't have a tv, i find myself tuning in to podcasts and live streaming radio from the internet.
on a particular radio show, they happened to play a song by the band Smog. this information went into my brain, traveled around a bit, and ended up reminding me of some past mix cds i've received.
from this particular friend, i have received 4 different mixes or "mixies' as they were labeled. although i thought it was such a thoughtful gesture to make me four mixes at different times in my life. but when i listen to the songs, i hear several songs that are complete REPEATS from earlier mixes. now, don't get me wrong. i appreciate the thought of a mix cd. but what i don't appreciate is realizing that my friend was not so thoughtful in putting the thing together.

so, if there's a moral to this story, it's that you should remember past gifts, whether mixies or not, and try to keep them original and don't turn a presumably "thoughtful" gift into something thoughtless.