Area 136

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xu55N302lJk

Nom nom nom.

I will be off now to swarm all over Ships CD collection.

Just like a good pirate should.

Avast there!

(no, this title does not refer to Nirvannas song writing template)

CD’s: little buggers sometimes are they not?

You see, an album that was originally released on a round flat disc of Vinyl and then put on to a CD is actually rather quiet. But an album that has only been released on CD is a lot louder.

“So what you old duffer, that is what volume controls are for, or are you too arthritic to use one?” I hear you charmingly venture…..

Well look kiddies, when you put your I-pod on shuffle you can go from having the volume up full and your ears being nicely caressed by a classic album, to having your eardrums fractured by the sudden jump in volume when a more recent one comes on.

Maybe there is a way to even all the volumes out, but that probably means loading some other bloody programme which I-tunes will argue with and freeze my lappy. Maybe there is something already in I-tunes that I have not yet discovered that would do it anyway.

If any of you hotshot young I-pod savvy things out there could offer any pointers (other than the obvious “Stick to ya wind up wax cylinders ya fossil!”) I would be most grateful.

In other news, why has no one invented a cheap waterproof laptop! I fancy blogging from the Jacuzzi!

I spent most of last night (well the bit not spent eating Shipscooks wonderful homemade burgers) scurrying around doing a bit of a treasure hunt between the various piles of CD’s ships has amassed over the years.

After scanning one case and plucking what I wanted out he would say –

“There’s another load in that drawer”

I would scamper over and rummage..

“And there are some more in that bookcase over there..”

Scamper

“and some in the bookcase in the hall…”

Scamper…..

So as you can probably tell, I had a successful evening with the new external drive and I-Pod combo. Which amazes me really.

First thing I did when arriving back at Rancho Collapso was to feed Tolley and Cleo so they would leave me alone, then unpack my goodies.

The Lappy was fired up and the drive plugged into it. After they had both said hello to on another that was it, ready to go.

Then onto the I-Pod thingamy. I typed in the address given in the I-Pod hand book and was taken to the start sight. Or what I assumed was the start sight, but what was actually the page where you pay for an I-tunes account. Hmmmm, you have had enough money of me so far Mr Pod. Checking the address I typed against the address I had actually been taken to showed them to be different BUT I had not made a mistake when entering the address, you sneaky buggers.

So I re-typed it and this time got the right place. So I said “Gimme!” and it did.

Now you may be thinking, “Hang on –where is the swearing you old git, this is you and new technology here – something must go wrong”

Well fear not – I got my chance to swear because it appeared like the programme would only let me load it to my C drive, which I didn’t want but could see no way of changing. Which is when I got to do the swearing thing, quite loudly actually.

So I gave in and said load. THEN it gave me a choice of which drive to send it to. So I changed C to D and hit “next”

And wonder of wonders, the little light on the external drive whizzed from blue to green to red to green to blue to red……….and it worked.

I was dead chuffed.

Now I know this is all very “yeah so what granddad” to you bright young things out there, but I am pleased with myself.

I can now take the portable drive back to the house and start putting my own CD’s on it via the lappy that my friend lent me.

Well that is the theory anyway……..