I went to Hobby Lobby - it’s a walmart for arts and crafts, it’s something - and as I was getting all my cool stuff rung up I noticed that Jo, who was doing the ringing, had an irish accent. She also noticed mine. We had a quick conversation as I paid for the stuff about Utah. She has lived here for 15 years, was originally from Dublin and retired last year. She worked a couple of nights a week for Gas Money and something for the grand kids.

Kinda makes me wonder if Utah is a bit of a black hole. Once you enter you can never leave again.

But they can be created if you have a Mac. All with the power of Apple Script. Mac Geekery has a post on Using Keyboard Shortcuts to Rate Songs in iTunes.

The above is a little hard to follow so here’s a quick rundown.

1. Check to see if you have a folder located at /Library/iTunes/Scripts. If you don’t create one.
2. Open up Script Editor.
3. Create a script with the following code and save it as Rate as 0. This script will tell itunes to give a song a rating of 1 (itunes uses a scale of 0 to 100 for song ratings).

   tell application "iTunes"
       repeat with theTrack in (get selection)
           set the rating of theTrack to 20
       end repeat
   end tell
   

4. Create 4 other versions of this script and change the value of 20 to 40, 60, 80, and 100 and name theme accordingly. Rate as 1, Rate as 2…
5. Open up system preferences and the keyboard and mouse dialog. Click on the Keyboard Shortcuts section. Add a shortcut setting the Application to iTunes, the Menu Title to Rate as 1 and the keyboard shortcut to ⌘⌥1. Do this 4 more times for the other 4 ratings.
6. Open Up ITunes and get rating.

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All was going well. Until I tried to take them out. I needed the practice as I had trouble doing the same thing at the optometrist. It took me something like half an hour.

Then when i put the contact back into my left eye, I managed to put it in backwards. It turns out that this is quite painful. I of course didn’t feel like removing the contact straight away so I left it there for a few minutes. I think I got used to it since it stopped irritating my eye.

Removing the reversed contact was quite challenging but I eventually succeeded.

After a fun filled day I decided to finish it off wearing my glasses.

The next day, Sunday, I awoke bright and early at 2 p.m.. I put in the contacts and headed out the door for some food. While pulling into the food hole I inadvertently clipped the curb which crushed the side while of my tire and gave me an instant flat. I was a little pissed off but this was only the beginning.

The 90 degree heat had caused my sweat glands to open and completely cover my face with water. While wiping this off I think I wiped my right eye a little to hard. All of a sudden everything went blurry. Kinda. Closing my right eye everything looked cool. Closing my left resulted in a view of the world as seen through a piece of see-through ice.

My View Of The World (Photo courtesy of George Lessard*)

While getting my tire fixed I attempted to correct my contact**. Seeing as how I had been wearing them for a grand total of 4-5 hours this mostly consisted of rubbing my eye.

After one particularly sweeping rub I noticed something watery. Further investigation revealed it to be my contact! I had rubbed it off my eye.

Not knowing whether I should try and re-insert it I decided to go one eyed. Everything still looked weird.

When I got home I took the other one out. It came easy that time and I was full of glee.

Monday was a work day and was the real trial. Wearing contacts was a bit of a revelation. I could see everything. But my eyes felt weird all day. I took them out when I got back home and I haven’t put them in since.

I’m going to wear them some more over the weekend and we’ll see how that goes.

* This picture is under a creative commons license.
** I was gonna post about that here but this got a bit long. I’ll rant at about it later.

Why isn’t Jugernaut - who I think is indestructible - a stunt man?

Why aren’t Gambit or Dazzler(?) explosion creators?

Why doesn’t a mutant with telekinesis use their powers to levitate stuff.

Need a monster for your horror movie? Get a shape shifter.

This has probably all been done before in which case I want to read it. Now.

How do I attract these people?

UPDATE: It Worked!!!