RRRRGH

I bought some CDs recently (a couple to replace casettes that broke finally, a couple from Rainfurrest, and... er... one other random one) and wanted to import them into itunes. But that's all done on my desktop that I hardly ever use lately -- it's been two months since I so much as turned it on.

iTunes needed an update, Windows XP needed a frickin' *service pack* as well as two dozen random patches, and at the end of it all... iTunes doesn't boot. Seven @#$^& hours upgrading my @#$^& obsolete computer, and I don't actually get to import the @#$^& CDs. I'm uninstalling iTunes now... I guess I'll have to reinstall it and hope that that works since nothing else interfaces with the @#$^& iPod.

God, Apple software sucks. Nothing ever works right -- the reason I decided to install the stupid upgrade was because the apple store couldn't apply iPod patches through the (up to date, at the time) version of iTunes I had without hanging. And my iPod itself crashes *way* too much for a $%^& music player.

I didn't...

I didn't actually spend 7 hours sitting in front of the computer running updates. I spent seven hours running back to the computer every 15 minutes to see what had kept it from progressing *this* time, or that it wasn't quite done with the current step.

The rest of the time I was mostly reading Silver Scales in unfinishedtales. For some reason, when rowyn mentioned that she'd written a story, I didn't connect that with the story journal she keeps, and looked for it everywhere else instead, with no luck.

It's a pretty neat story. I stopped when she finished 'book 1' and started in on the sequel. Because it was 1am and I *still* hadn't gotten iTunes to work and wanted to go to bed. I've found going to sleep is the best thing to do when you're really angry -- things usually seem less important in the morning.

Space Otters Chapter 6

I've been writing bits of this installment off and on for... um... a LONG TIME. I bet you thought I was never going to finish this story, hmm? Well, this doesn't finish it. And I'm probably NOT going to finish it. I didn't even think I'd do this part, to tell the truth.

But I kinda know where I want to go from here. Kinda.

http://home.earthlink.net/~aaronm1/text/spaceotters6.html

Previous installments:
http://home.earthlink.net/~aaronm1/text/spaceotters.html
http://home.earthlink.net/~aaronm1/text/spaceotters2.html
http://home.earthlink.net/~aaronm1/text/spaceotters3.html
http://home.earthlink.net/~aaronm1/text/spaceotters4.html
http://home.earthlink.net/~aaronm1/text/spaceotters5.html

You can thank iTunes for refusing to boot, and Warhammer for disconnecting me every ten minutes until I gave up. Or blame them. Whichever.