Day of errands

Only parents with several children close in age will understand how exhausting a day of errands with three kids is. Only a few things take all day, what with the diaper changes and nursings and other stops. (One diaper change today involved going through three new diapers and a new onesie, with the baby in the front passenger seat and me twisted sideways in the driver's seat. No wonder she was crying, with that going on in her system. Trust me, you don't want to try that.)

In quick summary - the bills have been paid and mailed off (Saginaw REALLY needs another post office, or at least a drive-up box somewhere - I couldn't park within a block and ended up driving to the regional one one Mark IV Parkway), Maggie's dance clothes were found, Jamie's glasses have been fixed, I have bought a new kit for my Medela Lactina, and new and much improved storage bags, confirmed once again that there just isn't a standard nursing bra that can fit me, returned home, and Maggie was bathed, dressed, and taken to dance class on time.

I am highly ANNOYED with Bath and Body works. fordprfct took us in there once when we were up doing errands in that Southlake area with all the cute shops around the park. He was getting more shower gel, and convinced me to try some. He uses a nice masculine juniper scent stuff, nice but not my style, but I found a raspberry that smelled really good, and was convinced to try it. And I liked it. And I ran out. And hey, Jamie's optician is all the way up there in Southlake, so I was very close. After going to all the trouble to get a parking spot only a block or so away, get three kids out of the car, get Alanna into the carrier, and walk across to the store in the sun and heat, they don't have the raspberry shower gel. Out of stock, and well that's an 'old' scent, so now they're only going to have it during the annual sale, except they're out of stock for this one. Well, they just lost a customer. I do not understand the whole drive to New! Different! stuff - if I find something that works I like to stick with it.

I would like to go collapse now - except in a bit I have to go back out and get Maggie back from dance class. We'll see if it's raining then or not. It's been alternating between pouring rain and hot hot sun.

Where all the children are above average

So I was poking around on iTunes, looking for something else, and came across a listing for the song in question done by Garrison Keillor.

Oooh. Garrison Keillor. Poke, poke. Listing of Garrison Keillor stuff, including LOTS of News from Lake Wobegon eps. Yay! Cool!

Ah, these are listed as "audiobooks". $3.95 each. Eek. Not cool.

Poke poke further. OOOH, what's this? Podcast. Podcast listing of News from Lake Wobegon. Fifteen of them, going back to March. FREE. Spot to click to "Get Episode"

click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click!

Ooh, here's a spot to click to SUBSCRIBE and get future ones! Click!

Hey, rlseiver, might be worth it to install iTunes even if you never use it for buying anything.

I am amused by my glee at this. Seeing them listed as audiobooks and podcasts has made me realize that Garrison Keillor is pretty much the exception to my dislike for audiobooks and podcasts. (Okay, and Vinyl Cafe, but I've never gotten to hear that on the radio)

It's not really that I dislike them, that's too strong a word. It's that they don't work for me. I know lots of people that are into them and excited by them. But when I tried audiobooks, I found I was distracted and not paying attention or following the story. I'm just a written word kind of person. When I see the listings for Knitpicks' podcasts, for instance, I just wish there was a transcript webpage I could *read*.

But for Garrison Keillor, I'm game.

iTunes problem

Oh, bugger.

So I went wildly clicking away on all fifteen podcast episodes of News from Lake Wobegon on iTunes. When I see my "podcast" listing on the left side of the iTunes window, it has a "15" next to it. However, the right side of the window, when I click on podcasts, only shows the most recent one.

How do I fix this so I can see and play the earlier episodes? I can't find anything helpful in the help. I can find ways I could hide podcasts totally, but nothing that seems to set it to only show the most recent one.