Danger: Lid

While taking out the trash this afternoon, I accidentally kicked the bag. My big toe, poking out from my sandal, managed to solidly connect with the edge of the lid of a can of water chestnuts. The sharp aluminum broke through the plastic and sank cleanly into the meat of my big toe, incising an arc about 3/4" long and 1/16" deep across the tip. Bright beads of blood welled up at the outside corners of the cut, then trickled down my foot to stain the insole of my new Ecco sandal. It didn't hurt a bit, but I had a bit of fun trying to extract my foot from the sandal without further stains.

After applying pressure, rinsing the wound with alcohol and OH, and awkwardly wrapping a Band-Aid around the tip of my toe, I went back outside and found two drops of blood sitting on the stained wood of our walkway. They were bright bright red, like poster paint; I wasn't sure at first that they'd come out of me.

Starry-eyed

Ha! All of my music is now rated in iTunes. All 7511 songs. (Yow.) I wanted to finish up before Pinewoods, for optimal road trip listening, and I did. Go me. The breakdown is:

* 30
** 804
*** 4664
**** 1969
***** 44

One star (not that y'all care) indicates a song I probably never want to hear again, and five stars are reserved for my favorite songs of all time. Two and four stars are attached to songs if I find I'm disappointed or pleased, respectively, when they show up in rotation, and three songs are for everything else.

Since I've set my iPod to copy all of my 4- and 5-star songs, that means I'll have all of my favorite music handy most of the time. It's also set to hold all of the songs I buy from ITMS (so I'll have a backup in case of a crash), anything I've added to the library in the past two months, and a random 11 GB of anything rated * to *** that hasn't been played in the last month, plus a couple of specific mixes and albums. That seems to be a good mix for me, though since I love tweaking things so much I imagine I'll tweak it some more.

(*tweak tweak*)