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I don’t go on the internet until after 6pm now and seeing the headline about Congresswoman Giffords being shot at a rally was startling. I hope she pulls through.

I’m glad I figured out last night what caused iTunes to get blank and I’m very happy that internet had the answers on how to fix it. I spent the morning transferring all my music from folders to the library and then I bought “Glasvegas.” It sucks that I lost all the play counts, and this was frustrating and annoying but at least I didn’t actually lose the music. And knowing why this happened actually helps a lot. I was very cranky last night.

More Sherlock Holmes today. I finished “A Study in Scarlet” and I watched the first of the Russian Sherlock Holmes TV movies “Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson” – well, one hour episode. These episodes were made from 1979 to 1986 and I grew up on them. I haven’t seen any in a while. When I think of the characters, these actors are who I always picture. The music from this show is really famous – it is quintessential Sherlock music to me. The first half was based on “Study in Scarlet” and their initial meeting and Watson being suspicious of what Holmes does. It was really funny, I don’t remember all this humor. Watson is adorable in this. The second half was based on a different case. Russian tv channel is going to run these on weekends so that should be fun. There are eleven episodes overall. The only one I vividly remember is “The Hound of the Baskervilles.”

The book, “A Study in Scarlet,” was really fun to read. I didn’t realize that fully a third of it was not Watson narration but the background to the murder and the motivation for the killer. I love the language of it – nineteenth century English literature does have such a lovely prose. When we first meet Holmes he a little more geeky than I expected. I don’t know when I will read the rest with my busy semester but I certainly want to read more.

This afternoon I proofed my Harry Potter story so I could post it tonight (just when it was January 9 in England, since I wrote it for Snape’s birthday, and yes, I know just how geeky that is). When I decided in December that this year I want to do more writing and do one story a month, I wanted to do a Snape story for January because of the birthday. And then I remembered the Christmas conversation between Lupin and Harry in Book 6 where Lupin defends Snape to Harry and mention that they might not be friends but he still trust him. So I wanted to write a story with Lupin and Snape and maybe get them to be friends a little bit. And then I started writing it in the last week of December and I wrote it from Lupin’s perspective. So it ended up more a story about Lupin. And it flowed really well since I kept hearing in my head all the things they would talk about. I finished it right before the new year. Now, for February, I will try a Janeway/Chakotay story since I love them and February calls for romance.

One of my friends has an Etsy shop where she sells the jewelry she makes. She makes these beautiful pearl bracelets of different colors for a cancer charity. I bought one for Bear’s Mom a while ago. I’m going to buy one this year in deep purple color in honor of my dad.

Exercise: 30 minute walk with nice falling snow
Cross-stitch: orange, blue and yellow – I love different colors.
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What I really, really don’t like is when I load a DVD to watch a movie and they keep showing trailers and commercials for more than ten minutes with no way to go to the main menu. I get that I can do other things, but I just want to watch the damn movie! It was actually 17 minutes according to the screen counter! That is insane.

I was watching “Going the Distance,” once I actually got to the movie. I liked it. The humor at times was a little too juvenile and cringy but I liked the relationship. It felt very realistic and the main characters faced real obstacles, not made up stupid ones. And the resolution was realistic too. So overall, a good movie.

So Local College is having paperwork issues and it can’t give me access to their online system yet. I had to email people who wrote me recommendations to ask them to resend it. That is a bit annoying.

Today is not my day – I just went into iTunes to finally download “Glasvegas” on my gift card and my whole iTunes library and my Purchased playlist is missing. I’m trying to follow their help guide but I’m starting to panic. I have back-ups on CD and for most of the stuff I bought but I really don’t want to start over here. OK, I can’t get it back with their “support” instructions but I do have all the files still in my computer under “iTunes Music.” I need to figure out how to get back my library from that and not just click on the gazillion songs one by one. Plus I liked my song counts and Purchased list.

Exercise: 30 minutes on Wii. (having the resolutions for a month really helps since I made myself stick to this.)
Cross-stitch: just a tiny bit in orange – my plans got disrupted by iTunes meltdown


Edit: Ok, after a lot of internet scouting I figured out why my iTunes drama happened. I have Sony Vaio and apparently once you turn on their music program it messes with iTunes. I never turned that on before this week when I was looking for a way to copy some of my DVD stuff to Powerpoint. I've been following some online suggestions so hopefully it should help. I will probably need to click on all my music again, which sucks since I probably lost my play count and playlists.

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