Steve's Ramblings

so something interesting happened during my run today...

I got hit by a car.

Yep.

I was running by the entrance/exit of an apartment complex when a lady was leaving the complex. I knew she was going to stick the nose of her car into the sidewalk area so I was prepared. I was *almost* by the hood of her car when the bumper clipped me on the leg. I sort of rolled off the hood with one hand banging down on the hood and the other giving me balance on the ground. She screamed. I turned and gave her a nasty look then went on my way. I would like to think this scared her into actually *looking* where she is driving. But likely she is just too big an idiot to learn from her mistakes.

Two questions for my faithful readers:

  1. Does anyone have XM Radio and have missing channels? I am missing a bunch of sports and news channels (ESPNEWS for example). My car radio required me to go up and down by channels, I can't select them by number but when I try is skips right by them. It pretty much sucks.

  2. Had anyone had problems burning audio CDs from iTunes where certain songs are truncated? I bought the newest Modest Mouse album and can not make an audio CD from it because one of the songs gets shorted to 1:34 from 4:30 or something similar. It makes it an invalid audio CD and won't play in my car stereo or in my computer at work. I don't happen to have any 74 minute CDs handy, so I have only tried with 80 minute ones. I have also just tried burning three of the songs (including the specific track giving errors) and I still get the error. It sucks that I can't listen to music I have purchased in my truck because iTunes won't burn it properly.