Are we having fun yet?

Huge quantities of guffawing and knee-slapping as we received news this morning that the folks that most recently considered the idea of renting the house here in Pagosa

(a) were all for the idea, then

(b) decided not to rent the place, opting instead to look for something with a little bit more room, and

(c) re-reconsidered, and want to go ahead with renting the place.

It will feel so good when the oscillations stop.

Cheers...

A hint, just a hint...

iTunes did its usual "Not reponding" two-step while attempting to import a bunch of files into iTunes, but I was so caught up in doing a rush job for a client, I didn't have the time to kill the process.

As it turned out, I had occasion to do the Alt-Tab finger-dance while translating the document, and I happenstantially ended up looking at the iTunes screen. The Windows Task Manager still listed iTunes as tuned out, but the screen was different. Something had happened. Files had been imported.

A check a few minutes ago shows that iTunes has actually migrated back from that bourne from where few Windows applications return. It responds to clicks and everything.

I'm impressed.

This leads me to conclude that the application may not be as thoroughly dismally bad as I had thought. It may be that it just doesn't really pay much attention at all to the "outside world" once it's been given something to do (such as import a bunch of files). Dunno how much of an improvement that might be, but there it is.

Cheers...

UPDATE: In what I hope is unrelated news, the USB drive on which I keep my iTunes media (and which is pretty much continuously plugged into my computer) has come up with a CRC error that has Windows 7 repeatedly asking if I want to format the poor thing.

The excitement never ends.

Something that crossed my desk today...

Visitors to Paris who might be interested in a comprehensive listing of what's going on during any particular week in the theater, for children, in the cinéma, the arts, museums, music, restaurants, and events in general should invest €0.40 in a copy of Pariscope.

Physics humor...

“We don’t allow faster-than-light neutrinos in here,” says the bartender.

A neutrino walks into a bar.