Sometimes my own stupid just floors me.

Twice in the last four days I have written on this little bloggerino that in order to see the sun rise you have to face West.

West.

What a friggin’ idiot! I’m like, f*ck you, puppet! Only in this case I’m the puppet!

East, you idiot. The sun rises in the East.

Damn, what a jerk!

Cloudy Sunrise

Usually I don’t go to the ocean for sunrise pics unless the forecast calls for nothing but sun. I don’t want any risk of driving all that way and then not being able to see the sun break the water. After a few successes though, I wanted to try going on a day with some clouds in the hopes of seeing how the sun makes the clouds change color. Sunday’s forecast called for partly cloudy.

It was almost a bust. “Partly” turned out to be “almost completely” except for a little band of sky right on the horizon. If not for that, I would have been screwed. As it was, I only had a few minutes with a visible sun before it hid behind the partly=completely.

Sunrise Windows

I may have mentioned it before, but I want to live in one of those houses that the windows light up when the sun rises. I’m sure that once I move into one of those houses it will not live up to expectations as the first time I walk into an East facing room during the sun rise I will have my retinas burned to a crisp and never see light again for the rest of my days.

Still want to live there though.

Blue Moon?

Is it still a blue moon if the second full moon in a month rises on the last day of the month but sets on the first day of the next month, and you don’t see it until just before it sets?

Apple Music Fail

It was just a matter of time, but this iTunes Match user (who generally sings the service’s praises) just found an instance of the Apple Music bug where Match users are finding that songs have been removed from their My Music libraries. Tracks 1-3 of the Rush Vapor Trails remix are gone, gone gone.

Hey Apple… I want my missing files back.

I sure hope the last backup I did has everything that Apple removed.

Addendum: The bug is dumber than I thought. I organize my iTunes library in playlists. Every song I have exists in at least one playlist, and when I use iTunes, the playlist view is the only one I ever use. When I’m using my iPhone or iPad it sometimes feels faster to find what I want to listen to by pulling up the artist, and then drilling down to the album. That’s what I did when I noticed the Apple Music bug. The full album exists in Apple Music, just not under the artist/album in My Music.

Those three songs appear in about 1000000000 different versions in My Music (ah bootlegs), so I thought I’d search for one of them and see if any others disappeared. Imagine my surprise when not only did I not notice any other versions of “One Little Victory” missing from the search results, but the remix album version actually appeared and I could click it and play it. Well, that’s dumb. It’s still labeled correctly, but it shows up in search but not in the album itself. Right. Dumb.

I then thought, I made a playlist for Vapor Trails that included the album, the remixed album, and the couple of additional remixed songs from a compilation album. I went to my playlists… and the missing songs were all there (“Ceiling Unlimited – Remix” is playing in my ear buds as I type this).

Well… that’s just… Dumb.

Fix this please, Apple. Fix it soon.

Conflict

I don’t want summer to end, yet I want hockey to start. The PS4 will have to do for now.

HipstaKitty tries to take a nap.

R40 and Oggl

Still messing around with using Oggl to hipstafy some of my Rush R40 in New York pictures. Why? Because I’m one sentimental red head, that’s why. Also because as I clean the house I’m listening to R40 New York bootlegs. Why? Because I’m not ready to let go.

What was I talking about? Oh yeah, Oggl. Turns out I am the only Oggl user who used the tags R40 or R40Live. There are thousands of pics with those tags on friggin’ Instagram, but only the few I posted on Oggl. During the Periscope fun last night I tried to Google the number of active users on Oggl and the only numbers I found were for Hipstamatic users at the time Oggl launched in 2013. I don’t think that’s a good sign, do you?

Anyway, here are more hipsta-Rush pics.