Pepper wouldn't go onto the back porch last night. She stood by the door, looking worried. And then I heard it: a long low "Hoooooo". A long-eared owl was lurking in our eastern acre.
I told Pepper that's why we don't let her outside. She ran into the kitchen to escape.
(pic from Audubon)
So cool.
Eat those mice! Eat them all up!
I got a new DVD burner a few weeks back. I thought it would enjoy life on my desk, but apparently not: it lies to me.
If I tell iTunes to burn an album to CD, the burner goes through the motion: LED flashing, motor whirring, etc.. And it finishes without reporting any errors. And then iTunes shows the contents of the newly-burned CD. And if I use Windows Explorer to look at the disc, I can see the songs files. It looks like the process worked.
But if I then eject the disc and look at it, I don't see that telltale slightly-lighter band where the songs should be. It looks ... blank. And if I put the disc back in the burner, the burner grinds and coughs as if I inserted a blank disc. And if I then look at the disc with Explorer, Windows tells me the disc is blank and asks me what I want to do with it. This is the same disc that Windows just said was full of music.
And yes, the disc is actually blank: I can burn it again. And sometimes the contents will actually be written.
This is baffling.
Pedantic, stick-in-the-mud, wet blanket, scold, know-it-all.
Prompted by a Modesto post, I bought a copy of the soundtrack to I'm Not There - the Dylan movie from a couple of years back. From that, I've learned that the following songs were written by Dylan, though I knew them from other bands first:
I really need to listen to more Dylan.
Hooray for income tax refunds!
(the IRS bought us that new couch, too)
It's spring!
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