Author: Paul Tomblin

Damn damn damn FUCK FUCK FUCK!!!

This morning my elbows are hurting. And they’re not responding to ibuprohen either. This feels like the start of the two years of elbow pain that I got after trying for a week to paddle a canoe for exercise. I guess my plans to try a different kayak some evening this week had better go on-hold. Perhaps forever.

Dammit, why can’t I catch a break? All I want out of life is for something fun I can do that will give me some exercise so I don’t die of a heart attack when I’m 45. IS THAT TOO FUCKING MUCH TO ASK FOR, GOD?

Is that so hard?

I have an iPod. It stores 20Gb of music. I also have about 80Gb of music on my hard drive. All I want is a way to put certain select music on the iPod, and then fill the rest with random music selected from that hard drive. Ok, as an added complication, the hard drive lives on a Linux box, and is NFS mounted on the Mac that drives the iPod. That shouldn’t matter, should it? It’s a fast network link (100Mbps) and goes through a switch instead of a hub.
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