I am usually quite upbeat but since returning from my holiday it's been a blur of horrid happenings. The main one being that I am one of the 'many' suffering from a itunes 5 download.
Being from Apple you trust them [when perhaps you shouldn't I know] so you happily click that DOWNLOAD button. It downloaded OK and it all seems to work except for one small thing - I can't actually play anything through it, not from my own Library or from a CD.
I will spare you the details of how I managed to trash 4 hours trying to solve this. I eventually went to the Apple forum group and then promptly found that not only have several people got exactly the same problem [thank god as that rules out there being a problem with my computer] but the hassles others are having puts mine in the pale! Computers crashing, itunes 5 not downloading to people loosing all their downloaded music - sounds like a complete nightmare.
And as I said you just DO NOT expect this from Apple AND you have to download it with QuickTime 7 and new software called Bonjour so of course there are bloody problems!!!!

There is nothing like the comfort you have when you switch on your magic computer and everything is where you put it, everything looks like you want it to and everything does what you set it up to do AND THEN something goes wrong. Your entire world caves in. Anyway someone from the forum is helping me I just need to find more free time to get it sorted.

Other horrid happenings have been politics within the volunteer group I work in, the temperature drop accentuating the end of summer, stuck in the NEC for 3 days doing a trade show, and a crippling bout of IBS.

Did manage a quick listen to some new music [new to me that is as the album is 30 years old], STORM COCK by Roy Harper which was astonishing, strange and beautiful all in one go. Fantastic use of words in his lyrics but I just don't understand what any of them mean. It begs more listening which I will give. Anyone else ever heard of him?