Some months ago the Porkchop bought a Macbook Pro… and yes, I was and am very jealous, but that’s not the issue. The issue is that his disc drive chooses which disc to run at random… it’s a complete crapshoot… and it’s very irritating.

Especially considering he has somewhere in the vicinity of 800 CDs that he wants burned into his iTunes.

And since his disc drive works only about five percent of the time, the plan has been to burn his CDs onto my computer and then transfer them via a FireWire cord.

First of all, considering the sheer number of CDs… burning them, then transfering them, then making sure the ones I won’t like are deleted from my files, then importing everything into his iTunes.. it’s a nightmare job.

Second, my memory is down to less than seven gigs and adding music causes issues.

Third, I have no battery for my laptop, and it’s been shutting on and off on a pretty regular basis.

Yesterday it shut down while I was importing a CD (which has happened before), but when I booted back up, my iTunes library was “damaged” and the “XML file couldn’t be found” and suddenly my 6000 song library was down to just over 1000 and all of my playlists were gone (including my Purchased playlist).

I managed to replace all the music by dragging and dropping directly from my music folder, but all of the playlists were still gone.

Then I synched my iPod… not on purpose… and so now I really can’t replace the playlists.

Here’s the question.. has anyone ever had this happen, and is there anyway I can repair a damaged XML music file? I can’t even figure out why it’s damaged.

The refrigerator repair man guy came… AGAIN… for the fourth time in as many weeks. The diagnosis? The thermostat.

“Um… is that normal?”

“No.”

“Did we do that?”

“Doubt it.”

This was the very annoying, non-talkative repair guy. The first guy chatted with me the entire time; this guy barely says ten words. The Porkchop thinks I don’t like him ’cause he won’t flirt with me… which, OK, might be a smidge true, but I mean, COME ON, you are in my house for almost an hour and you don’t want to talk at all?

That seems very irrational to me.

My laptop has now jumped to the front of the line in the saga for the worst-appliance-in-the-apartment. A couple of weeks ago both batteries (I kept a backup) died completely. I put in an order with Apple and planned to have no problem working, seeing as how it’s supposed to work using the power cord.

Litany of issues: a) my computer doesn’t like only using the cord and routinely shuts down completely—for no f—ing reason, b) this always happens when I am editing twelve images at once (and haven’t saved) or am composing some sort of nonsense for someone (again, not having saved), c) which means I have to save every two seconds (or when I remember… erm) and c) since they no longer make Powerbook stuff, I am still waiting for them to ship the new battery—and as of yesterday, that won’t be for another one-two weeks.

Sweet. mother. of. all. that. is. holy.

In up news, I spent part of the day catching up on all things Moo-in-NZ and am happy to report he’s still just as funny and just as unlucky in love.

😀

Late last night we realized the fridge is out again. Nice, hmm? We’re not sure if it’s the same problem as before (first the relay switch, then the compressor), or if it’s a new problem altogether.

I vote new problem, ’cause there really isn’t anything as fun as dealing with a dying refrigerator for a month.

That, coupled with the fact that we just like to sleep, meant we were running about fifteen minutes late this morning. We were to be at the train station at 11AM to pick up somebody. Sadly, that somebody was sick and stayed home… but not without sending me an email early this morning letting me know she wasn’t coming.

Which was nice, but doesn’t really help when you’re running late and you forget to check your email (something I almost never forget to do). An hour later, we headed back home, irritated at myself for not saving her phone number and slightly concerned that something happened.

Lo and behold, all is well and now I’m ensconced at home, changing the blog and being swarmed by kitties. (It’s cold today.)

Update: also, I burned a candle all the way down and then it became a flaming ball of fire. FYI, don’t use water to put out flaming hot glass candles. All sorts of problems.

And double refresh the site, as the new CSS only shows up if you do. 🙂

I had a crazy dream last night that my sister got remarried to her ex-husband. It was in a small castle-type place, and there were only a few rows of people, but it was lovely and they were both really happy. I woke up excited to blog about how happy I was he was “back in the family.” Seconds later, I sighed and realized my brain was on crack.

I should’ve stayed in bed today, because sad happy dreams are better than sad, depressing days.

The job I took uses a system that employs the Porkchop… and his ex-wife. The real fun is that she is the contact for the company, and not him. She knows we are together—that wasn’t a fun day either—so he and her talked and the three of us decided that he’d transfer an account to her and take my account. No muss, no fuss, all handled via IM this morning… or so we thought.

My new boss called their boss to see if it would be a problem having her on their account since they were hiring me, who is dating her ex. Porkchop’s boss, who hadn’t known we were together, brought it up with his ex, who said she knew and that it wasn’t a big deal—but we are all now uncomfortable with the entire damn situation.

Why in the hell would my new boss bring this up? Are they so worried that there will be issues? Don’t they think I’d be smart enough to not take the goddamn job if I thought it would be an issue? Why the HELL would they call his boss? How is our personal relationship an issue at all?

The three of us handled it just fine, and I guess I’m more ripshit because I feel like they circumvented me in this situation and steamrolled the Chop and his ex by bringing it up with their boss. (Who can be a real asshole just in general.) Bear in mind, this was a company I interviewed with and the Chop wanted to hire. So now the concern is that his boss will be all, “Oh, so that’s why you wanted to hire her.”

Apparently his boss then said it wouldn’t be a problem with her and I working together because they are divorced and so blah, blah, blah.

Do you see how they fucking created a problem that we had already dealt with? Now their boss won’t allow the transfer and I get to work with his ex-wife.

I’m really looking forward to this new job now.

Company to grow custom cats that won’t cause sneezing… and they’re only $4,000!

The utter randomness of that, seriously.

I accepted a full-time job today. It’s only 50 miles away, and part of the agreement is that I’ll work from home twice a week… 15% rev share isn’t too shabby either…. and all together I’ve been insanely bored, so I’m looking forward to it.

Kinda.