Steep learning curve

Well having had an ipod for several months and only ever managed to put a couple of songs onto it I decided this was the weekend. Spent friday night ripping music. Saturday decided to put it onto it. Now I know they are supposed to do it when they synchronise but mine just wont do that so I have to do it manually. Probably me being rubbish with computors. Anyway finally get all this stuff onto my ipod and to M`s which was brilliant for- sight tho I didnt know it yet. Anyway then I decide I am having problems with finding new stuff so I will delete all the old music I already have and start again so I can just add album by album. ( have a laptop and not much disk storage space) Plug in ipod to add next album and it wipes everything else! Depression or what. So I had a rest and took dogs a walk. Then came back and had a look on the internet and look up how to restore music to itunes from ipod. Loads of posts saying cant be done but then: lo and behold theres a post with directions. Detailed dierections cos else couldnt have even considered doing what I did. Anyway 4 steps later I have learned how to make ipod separate storage device and extracted all of M`s music ( which didnt have as much as I managed to wipe but saves days of time downloading) and have restored at least 80% of what i wiped. Hey hey success. I actually feel I might be able to use ipods from now on. And I have loads of music to play in my car on journey to work!

Other than that met a good friend S and her boyfriend on Saturday night and went over the road to our local and indulged in lots of real ale. Felt disgusting on Sunday morning. Even a long country walk with Ronnie and Reggie ( my two "stray" dogs) didnt really make me feel much better. Couldnt do much on Sunday cos M had to go to work. They have changed his work so he now has to do rotating shifts and the night shift starts on Sunday night which really doesnt give a very long weekend! No idea why they had to do that cos hes been working there for years and the 3 shifts sorted it out amongst themselves so that in the yard each person only had to work one shift. Now a manager has decided they must all rotate. Not only does it muck up 3 different familly lives its not good for your health and I have heard it said it knocks years off your lifespan too which is not good. Still hopefully something will come along and M will find a better job. Especially since he works 25 miles away anyway. The main reason for staying there was he liked it and the shifts were ok. When management drop stuff like this on you you may just as well move to a different company. So anyway we had a very short weekend and I didnt drink anything on Sunday ( alcoholwise anyway!)......... probably good for my health but not much fun.