Yesterday at Sav-on, the cashier didn't know exactly how to handle a "buy one, get one free" Pepsi cap, so she ended up taking one of the two 20-ounce Pepsis I had presented her with completely off the receipt. I'm pretty sure there's supposed to be a "promo" key involved, and I'm still supposed to be charged the 4-cent "CA Cash Refund," but whatever.

Anyway, I'm back on track, because the first of those two Pepsis won me a free song. I'm now 12 for 28 (8 songs, 4 free Pepsis).

My list of "singles I'd like to download from the iTunes Music Store" is now 73 songs long. It's hard trying to decide on a song, so I let random chance do it for me, although I guess mathemeticians would actually call it pseudorandom chance. But it's good enough for me. I went to this web site that generates random numbers, clicked on "Generate a Decimal One-Time Pad," and used the last two digits of the first group of five numbers that came up.

Unfortunately, the first try was 75, and the second try was 95. But the third try was 42, and that turned out to be "Wildfire" by Michael Murphey, a Number 3 hit in 1975, and now generally considered to be one of the most annoying songs of the 1970s. It's featured in Dave Barry's Book of Bad Songs, for example.

Incidentally, it's less than two weeks until this contest officially ends, on April 11th, although codes can be entered into iTunes until May 23rd (and the iPod-Mini-an-hour giveaway ends April 30th). Last year, as I recall, Pepsis with the caps were still available until way after the official end of the contest.