Don't Back Down

I recently downloaded iTunes and have been giving it a test run to see how well it works. All in all, I have to say that I'm impressed. I rarely buy music these days, but when I've wanted something, I just jump over to the ITMS and pick it up. Pretty cool.

Well naturally, if I'm going to use iTunes for new music, I had to test it out with old music. I had ripped a couple of CDs and it was relatively painless. The first thing that tripped me up is that iTunes won't do MP3 out of the box. You need to change the setting (Edit->Prefs->Importing). Easy enough. Once I did that, things worked really well. Except I could not get iTunes to recognize when I inserted a new CD. It was driving me crazy.

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I was poking about for a recipe for chicken salad today. Couldn't find a thing. Don't get me wrong - Google brings out plenty of contenders. But they have macadamia nuts, almonds, red bell pepper, stuffed olives - you get the idea. I just wanted something simple. So I made it myself.

I started by boiling three chicken breasts in a pot with diced onion (a whole small vidalia), some diced celery (a medium-sized stalk, maybe five inches long) and some garlic. Not fancy garlic - it just came right out of the jar. No magic to the amount of chicken - that's just all I had in that bag.

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