I may still be alive

but I'm not quite sure. so here, have some updates.

beading with respect to crochet: works a lot better with a) appropriately sized beads, and b) dental floss. (seriously. Oral B has a "superfloss" thing that is basically pieces of floss with a stiff segment at the tip, which is theoretically designed for braces but works quite well for getting beads onto yarn.) finished the fingerless gloves (rav link) and am in limbo about what to tackle next.

computer argh: iTunes is being stupid and insisting that I only have fifteen tracks (all stuff purchased through itunes), zero playlists, four movies, one app (none of the paid ones though), etc. Am running a recovery thing to get the stuff off my iPad; at the moment the playlists that have transfered over are oddly stunted and out of order, no clue if they will stay that way.

body stuff: pain sucks. so do digestive issues (( tmi )

) and lack-of-spoon issues and depression issues and woe etc.

new obsession: puzzles & dragons (iOS/android game). bejeweled + pokemon, basically. I still haven't totally figured out how the power-ups and evolves work, and a lot of the info out there is in Japanese, and stuff, but it is addicting. and free (though you can of course buy gems for stuff) but not in the obnoxious way that facebook/g+ games tend to be (spam all your friends! you cannot progress unless you do!)

writing: zilch. my muse seems to be on extended holiday or something. :(

religiosity: easter is a-coming, which is giving me thinky thoughts, but I don't know if I can really articulate them (and don't know if anyone would care even if I did, or if it would be just "lol let me shove the dominant religion in your face")

to sum up: hhhngggg. /clings to flist/

wtfff, iTunes

The main reason I use iTunes is because it is the easiest way to sync iThings.

I currently want to set it on fire.

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So, okay. Long time ago, I used to store music files on an external hard drive (because there wasn't enough room on my computer ... shush). Said external HD died. I found a program that could get songs off my iPod and put them back into iTunes along with the playlists, so, fine.

Mind you, iTunes still had listings for all the files on the external HD, never mind that it was pining for the fjords. And I couldn't figure out how to weed out broken listings aside from manually playing each file one by one, and augh no.

So, okay, I probably lost some stuff in the whole process (music files that hadn't been on my iPod), but whatever, still had the important stuff.

Fast forward to a few months ago. iTunes loses its shit, more or less, and playlists and whatnot are all frelled. I run the same sort of backup thingie, which leads to having multiples of a lot of my stuff but easier than manually rebuilding everything, right?

Fast forward to today, when iTunes decides, for no apparent reason, that I have something on the order of 12 songs and 1 app and 3 movies, none of which is close to the correct count. I run the backup program. Again. Now there are some things in my library that are listed three or four or five times.

Double check that everything is okay, and go to sync my iPad. Which iTunes says has 8.mumble gigs free, which is great except for when I push the sync button, it spins for a bit and says that the iPad cannot be synced because there is not enough free space. Additional 32 GB required.

...32 fucking gigs.

I uncheck the "include all music lolz" option because it's propbably trying to include the three-to-five copies of everything, and manually check off playlists, and ... I still need 31 gigs.

*stares at it, too exhausted even to cry*

Fuck this, I'm going to bed.