It's a Dead sort of day

The kids picked me up a copy of A Long Strange Trip: The Inside History of the Grateful Dead at the library the other day, and I've been wallowing in music I hadn't heard for a while. The Internet Archive has a huge collection of Dead shows available for download, and I've found some great ones, including a few I was actually present at.

I even fit a few of these (with gratitude to The Grateful Page):

YOU KNOW YOU'RE A DEADHEAD WHEN...
1. You spend more money on blank tapes than you do on rent.
2. None of your tapes have names on them, just venues and dates.
3. Everyone is your brother or sister.
4. You swear the guy walking by you at the football game just said "doses."
5. You prefix every noun with "Kind" or "ice cold."
6. You spend more money at the post office than at the gas station.
7. You still have the parking tag from NYE 1976 hanging from your rear view mirror.
8. On forms you list your occupation as "?".
9. GDTRFB, SSDD, BIODTL, FOTD, SOTM, LTGTR, and WALSTIB all mean something to you.
10. At any given moment you can compute how many days, hours, minutes and seconds it's been since Alligator has been played.
11. Someone ask you what you do for fun, and you just smile real wide.
12. The first entry on your MCI friends and family list is 415-457-6388.
13. You got #12.
14. You try to tell your Russian History professor that Marx stole the phrase "One man gathers what another one spills" from Robert Hunter.
15. You think $1.00 for a grilled cheese sandwich is pretty darn cheap.
16. You're up at 3:20 a.m. writing some stupid "You know you're a Deadhead when..."
17. Your boss notices that members of your family only become deathly ill when there happens to be a Dead show within a 1,000 mile radius.
18. Your relatives start whispering everytime you walk into the room.
19. You wake up in a cold sweat three or four times a week because you were dreaming there was a show somewhere, and you just find out and have only 12 hours to get there.
20. Whenever you walk through a parking lot you instinctively hold your right index finger in the air.
21. The compass in your car is calibrated so that it always points to the Oakland Coliseum.
22. You can install a new cylinder on a '68 VW microbus with your eyes closed.
23. You have more tie-dyes than neck ties.
24. You find it amazing that some people fill balloons with AIR.
25. You try to convince your grandmother that Aoxomoxoa is an acceptable play for a Scrabble triple word score.
26. Your dog is named Bertha.
27. Your kid is named Althea.
28. You spend New Year's Eve with your cassette deck instead of your wife.
29. Your license plate spells HEY NOW.
30. You wonder if DDN is going to have a swimsuit issue this year. (Warning: Thinking about this one may ruin your appetite.)
31. You're still waiting for that second verse of Dark Star that they started back in May of '73.
32. Your computer monitor's wallpaper is a picture of Jerry Garcia, your cursor is a Steal Your Face skull, and you sometimes swear it's leaving trails.
33. You consider :-) a new form of punctuation.
34. Left unoccupied your hand instinctively taps the beat to Not Fade Away.
35. There are still ten people shacking up in your living room from the Summer 90 tour, and you don't know any of them.
36. You consider veggie burritos gourmet.
37. Your copy of DeadBase has long since broken out of its binding and the ink is beginning to wear off the pages.
38. You try to claim gas to and from Dead shows as an income tax deduction.
39. Your stock portfolio includes 50 shares of the Haines Beefy-T division.
40. You know the ZIP code for San Rafael,CA by heart.
41. You have the postal rates memorized.
42. You know the words to Truckin' better than Bob. (O.K., this doesn't necessarily mean you're a Deadhead...)
43. You spend all morning looking for this killer Playin' jam that you think is on this tape from '72, probably the Fillmore, and you know it's a Maxwell with the label on upside down, but it doesn't have a case, and you know the tape starts with Sugaree but the last time you think you saw it, it was in '83 and it was under your friend Brian's refrigerator, or maybe it was just a filler on that Alpine Valley '89 show, which you think you probably listened to in that dude's bus on the way to Deer Creek this year, but his phone number is on the back of the ticket stub that you think you stuffed in your Soundboard copy of 7/8/78 set II, and you have NO idea where that is, so you pull out DeadBase start looking through every show since '71 that even had a Playin' but by '77 or so you forgot what you were looking for because you got wrapped up in the nice version of He's Gone where Mickey starts playing the beam with dead cat...(if this sounds like something that happens to you every day, you know you're a Deadhead.)