The Magic Pantry

Gak, my iPod Shuffle just died. I usually listen to a podcast while cleaning up after dinner, to distract me from the fact that D. is watching some American Soap Opera or other. No luck tonight – just a flashing orange light. Thinking the battery low, I plugged it into the old iMac for a charge, and got a dialogue proclaiming the device corrupt, and offering a reinstall. I hastily clicked ever on, only to hit a roadblock with an “installation failed” error message and a meaningless string of hexadecimal. Dag nabbit.