Friday, September 15, 2006
Stuff and Nonsense
I want to get a little new material up here but, for various personal and professional reasons, there isn’t much time or energy for it. However, yesterday morning I kept having notions and thinking, dude, blog this. And maybe - just maybe - I will. Like now. It’s better than going outside into the sunny warmth for a walk at lunchtime, right?
Item the first: I went to my home computer not long ago to mess around with iTunes and my playlists, and I noticed a little icon to the left of some of my favorite music that indicated my computer didn’t know where it was being kept any longer. What the hell? I sorted by album and scrolled through 14 gigs of music, only to discover that about sixty albums suddenly have disappeared from my hard drive. They’re still on the ‘pod itself, so as long as I don’t try to update it I’ll still have the music with me when I’m out and about. But how could all those albums suddenly evaporate? (I went and hunted through the hard drive, too - there’s no trace of them!) Regardless of the cause, I’ve now pulled the disks out of my big cd binders and I have a tidy little project ahead of me now - reripping my way through the stack. Maybe I’m not pitiable but I am definitely aggravated.
Item the second: The local NPR stations are doing their fundraising drives, so I hear sponsorship messages I’m not used to hearing before my morning coffee has been brewed and injected into my bloodstream. That’s probably why I got confused by what sounded like a plug for a dentist for whales. What’s he going to do, clean the baleen? Slap a retainer on a narwhal tusk? Floss Willy? Cetatian dentists… that’s just weird.
Item the Third: Damn. Well, once again, I came to work with the wrong little memopad. I’m sure there’s something else I wanted to waste your time and brainpower with, but it ain’t coming through. So, instead, here’s a photo of drapery.
There you go, then. Have a good weekend.
