iPod suck

[dragonlady7]

So I was in the Club with all my gizmos. My iPod, purchased in August of 2003, has a relatively short battery life by this point-- respectable, but unpredictable. So I'd been listening to it for a couple albums, and decided it was probably going to need a recharge soon. But there's only one outlet in the kitchen in the Club, and I had my laptop, also in need of a recharge, plugged in there. So I used the cable to plug the iPod into the laptop for recharging. I've done this before.
I have set the iTunes on that computer not to update the iPod when it plugs in. (That computer's hard drive is a third the size of the iPod, so I have no music on there.) However, the iPod doesn't know this. Every bloody time, it starts blinking "do not disconnect" at me, and I have to go into iTunes and eject it before I can use it at all.
Unfortunately it does this every bloody time the computer goes to sleep and wakes up. Given that I was, you know, working, and thus had to occasionally step away from the desk, this meant that the computer went to sleep again.
But iTunes on that computer had already ejected an iPod, so the iPod would go into "do not disconnect" mode, but iTunes would blithely say there was no iPod so there was nothing to eject.
So I was faced with a choice: either disconnect, against the iPod's wishes, or leave it there forever. (Restarting iTunes several times did nothing. Force-restarting the iPod likewise did nothing.)
So I disconnected the iPod even though it said not to, and... Voop! Lost the entire contents of the iPod.

Swell.
I'm re-uploading everything to it from my desktop now. It's been plugged in for about ten minutes and it's on... song 325 of 7087.
Yawn.
We'll be here a little while.

All I ask is that it be done by 11:15 so i can catch the bus.


In other news I came home from work entirely free from sore muscles or stiff anything, and yet my back hurts this morning. I suspect my mattress, or failing that, I suspect that I slept in a stupid position. Oh dear, I'm an idiot.
And the likelihood of me investing in a new mattress is slight given that my couch, which is older than me, is supported by a phone book instead of a leg.


Am amused and reassured, for the most part, by people's observations of what they do before falling asleep. I am brought up short, however, by an attempt to explain to sirielle the difference between daydreaming and making up stories.
I think I tend to daydream with less deliberateness. When I'm making up a story, I really tend to have an idea of where I'm going with it and what I want from it. Daydreaming is more like dreaming in that it is more likely to be outside my deliberate control.
But maybe I'm making too fine a distinction-- maybe daydreaming is the same as telling yourself stories or thinking of what you'd like to do. Is it?

...

OK, 45 minutes have gone by and the iPod's on number 1766 of 7087. Can anyone extrapolate that for me? Will it be ready for 11:15? Hmm... Maybe?

I'll probably live.

Comments

[mother2012.livejournal.com]

I would agree with your definitions of daydreaming v making up stories. Although, from an observer's point of view there is no discernable difference.

For instance, in high school you may have been diligently working on the wording of a story in your head when the teacher admonished you to 'stop daydreaming'.

Very annoying of her.