{"id":11907,"date":"2008-01-03T15:06:41","date_gmt":"2008-01-03T22:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2008\/01\/03\/the-timer-is-running-on-faerie.html"},"modified":"2008-01-03T15:06:41","modified_gmt":"2008-01-03T22:06:41","slug":"the_timer_is_running_on_f","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/01\/03\/the_timer_is_running_on_f.html","title":{"rendered":"The timer is running on Faerie"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday was Tech Support Day at the Hills.  I went over to my folks’ house around 9 and spent the day optimizing and scanning and tweaking and prodding their PC to get it up to full fitness.<\/p>\n

I upgraded their iTunes with an eye toward documenting how to rip CDs onto it (EVIL!!) and then syncing to the iPod Nano my dad got last <\/em>birthday, which then would let them use the iPod car adapter we got them last Christmas.<\/p>\n

Got iTunes all snazzed up, got the iPod all working, got the instructions all typed.  Last step was the car adapter which looked really easy and …<\/p>\n

… and …<\/p>\n

… furshlugginer iPod doesn’t fit in it, even in the adapter marked for it.  Gah.<\/p>\n

Went to the site.  Aha.  Seems the ‘rents have an iPod Nano Second Generation, which requires a different bracketty widget than what came stock with the car adapter.  The manufacturer of which will send the new part over for free, of course, but not while I’m there. <\/p>\n

Ordered it anyway — I’ll be back some day, I suspect — and gave Mom and Dad the iTunes \/ iPod tutorial, so they can at least start ripping stuff.  (Their job isn’t made easier by having a collection that is mostly classical music, which fits into MP3 libraries like iTunes poorly and which is often has pretty sketchy support in the Gracenotes database).<\/p>\n

Around that time, the Ks and Margie and Katherine arrived, and we had cocktails and I opened a couple of very nice birthday presents (that being the ostensible occasion). <\/p>\n

We then went off to a very nice dinner at Tulipano<\/a>, the best little Italian restaurant in the worst strip mall in SoCal.<\/p>\n

Then back to the Ks and to bed.<\/p>\n

Today was taken up with getting Jim & Ginger’s new monster AIO printer (a Brother MFC-9840CDW) installed — which it now is, and humming along nicely.<\/p>\n

Tonight, Margie and I go off to a date (Sweeney Todd<\/em> and Catal<\/a>). <\/p>\n

Tomorrow we pack.<\/p>\n

And head home.  \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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