{"id":2316,"date":"2004-03-11T02:47:17","date_gmt":"2004-03-11T18:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/03\/11\/elation-and-frustration\/"},"modified":"2019-12-09T16:51:00","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T00:51:00","slug":"elation-and-frustration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/03\/11\/elation-and-frustration\/","title":{"rendered":"Elation and Frustration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Been somewhat of a roller coaster morning here.<\/p>\n<p>Elation: finding a Quest Customer Service representative who&#8217;s competent, and who discovers that due to some billing wonkiness Quest owes me \\$130, and credits that to my current telephone account.<\/p>\n<p>Frustration: discovering that iPhoto has somehow self-destructed, and while I still have all my photos, I&#8217;m going to have to go through and re-sort, re-categorize, and re-name all 3500 of them.<\/p>\n<p>And the word &#8220;PROJECT&#8221; flashed before my eyes&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Update: And the day just keeps getting \\&lt;sarcasm&#62;<em>better<\/em>\\&lt;\/sarcasm&#62;. iTunes just flaked out on me too, so now I&#8217;m re-importing all my music. ID3 tags should be fine, which is the main worry, but I&#8217;ve lost all my custom smart playlists, all the &#8220;last played&#8221; metadata, ratings, and anything else not recorded directly in each file&#8217;s ID3 tag. Argh.<\/p>\n<p>Today just doesn&#8217;t seem to be a good day for me to be touching a computer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>iTunes:<\/strong> &#8220;Floor Show: Rose Tint My World\/Don&#8217;t Dream It, Be It\/Wild and an Untamed Thing&#8221; by Original London Rocky Horror Show Cast from the album <em>Rocky Horror International<\/em> (1973, 6:00).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Been somewhat of a roller coaster morning here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2043],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-2316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}