I have always considered myself fairly well educated, fairly estute, and extremely competent with computers and such. That said, I am considering throwing the computer into the toilet in a billion little pieces and flushing. In my lifetime, I have found few things as frustrating has the literal hours wasted trying to get a hunk of plastic to do my will against its apparent inexplicable defiance. I'm no idiot. I do understand that that a computer is an inanimate object capable of no malice toward me, however in the past 10 hours I can assure you my computer is out to get me.
My husband got me an MP3 player from my birthday. I'm ecstatic! I finally sit down to download some tunes and put them on the player so I have some music to take with me to the gym to motivate the lazy out of me. Oh yes, I'm totally psyched. So long list in hand I go to my Window Media Player open it go to the music download website and begin buying music. Yes, I'm buying my downloads. I prefer my media virus free, thank you. My darling son has destroyed to hard drives thanks to free music at the hands of Napster back before the lawsuit and Kazaa. So, the old person goes to Walmart and for $0.88 I can buy a song. Works for me. Until now.
Suddenly, every third search and I'm getting debug screens and getting kicked out. I restart. I run anti virus, I run adaware, I check the version, all is well and still nothing but trouble. Hours later I'm finally checking out with my music the download is smooth as silk. Thank God the weekend is here and I can finish. But, no!!!! DSL is down again. It seems DSL is down every single weekend or evening that I need to go online. This frightens me since I am on line at most twice a week lately, so is it always down???? Hmmmm. I wonder. Okay so I call the stupid internet provider. Go through all the IP address yadayada and viola back online we go 20 minutes later.
Okay, finally done that and we can put it on the MP3. Well maybe. The MP3 program has very very basic instructions. The book is even worse. The website is useless. Okay, so I can figure this out. If a 10 year old can do this I can, right? Well not without much confusion, making multiple unnessary file copies and wondering if it was going to work finally three or four times. Hey, wow its syncing. Its copying. I did it. I take the player off and nothing. Crap!!! Try again. It says its copying. I read book again. Ohhhhh disconnect first on the computer. Remove hardware safely. Got it!!! Okay. Victory, there are songs. YAY!!! Okay hit play. It's working and then 10 seconds into the song. Click. off it goes. You must be kidding. I read book for the fifteen time. Not a damned thing. Hit play it says. I do. Ten seconds of music then off it goes. I ask my son. He says its defective. NOOOOOOOO. IT CANNOT BE. I've been at this for days.
Next morning, with much sadness I play with the MP3 again. I hit the buttons, go through the selections, read the different options, try this, try that and all of the sudden. Bam it works. What did I do, you ask? How should I know, but it works. YAY!!!
So, now here we are many downloads later, trying to make a compilation CD for a friend of some of my playlist for exercise. Simple, I've done this dozens of times. But, not today. I have spent 8 hours trying to Burn 7 CD's. None are done. I have tried burning in Microsoft Media Player. My son says this is crap and tells me to use Sonic Stage. I copy all the wma files over individually to Sonic Stage, it won't accept the conversion for copyright reasons. I bought these mind you and have 10 burns I can do with the licenses I purchased. I try Nero -- Nada. Now it's 8:30 at night and I leave in 3 days to see my friends and I have accomplished Jack Diddle today. Such frustration. The only cool thing is that I have a rocking MP3!!! Yay.
So, here's my playlist. If you have any cool songs to add, let me know. If I ever figure out the fast way to do this I may add them on too.
All Right Now -- Free
Barbie Girl -- Aqua
In these Shoes --Kristy McColl
Black Horse in a Cherry Tree -- KT Turnstall
Born to be Wild
Catch me Now I'm falling
Crocodile Rock-- Elton
Dancin in the Street
Fighter -- Christina Augilara
Get this Party Started -- Pink
Gimme all your Lovin'
Rich Girl --
It's My Life -- Bon Jovi
Jailhouse Rock -- Elvis
These Boots are made for walkin' -- Jessica Simpson
Jungle Boogie
Let's Go Crazy - Prince
Independence Day - Martina McBride
Just a Girl
Play the Funky Music
Fat Bottomed Girl -- Queen
Super Freak- Rick James
Rock N Roll All Night Long -- Kiss
Since U been Gone - Kelly Clarkson
Thank God I'm a Country Boy -- John Denver
Ballroom Blitz -- Sweet
Truckin- Grateful Dead
Unwritten - Natasha Beningfield
Walk This Way - Aerosmith
We didn't start the fire - Billy Joel
You May be right -- Billy Joel
You Really Got me -- Kinks
A Little Less Conversation - Elvis
Ain't Nobody - Chaka Khan
Lady Marmalade -- Chaka Khan
The Cup of Life -- Ricky Martin
Blue - Eiffel 65
Shake your Bon bon -- Ricky Martin
Brown Sugar -- Rolling Stone
Jump Jive and Wail -- Bryan Setzer
Rock this Town -- Bryan Setzer
Zorba's Dance - Zorba the Greek
Over the Rainbow/Its a Wonderful Life-- Israel (some very long name)
I need to be sedated -- the Ramones
Strong Enough -- Cher
Bring me to Life-- Evanessance.
Mustang Sally - Wilson Pickett
Love Shack - b-52's
Sos -Rhianna
Welcome to the Jungle -- Guns and Roses
Milkshake
Naughty Girl - Beyonce
Fever- Verve Remix -Sarah Vaughan
Brick House - Commodores
I need a Her0
Kashmir - Led Zeppelin
Psycho Killer -- Talking Heads
Jessie's Girl -- Rick Springfield
And many more. .....
