There was an in-house blood donation clinic today at work. It has been a while since I last donated, so I stopped off after lunch and gave them my right arm. The attending nurse got everything ready and gave me a quick poke. Then the worried look came over her. She missed. I kinda thought it felt weird. Another nurse came over and helped her, but to no avail. They pulled the needle out and asked if I wanted to give the other arm a try or leave it for another day. I was pretty determined, so I offered my left arm. They went through the prep work all over again and poked me a second time. This time, I haemotoma’d. I think it was time to give up.

There’s still the occassional weird feeling in my left arm as I type. I’m wondering if I should change my arm position or something.

Sure, opinions vary, but I’m fond of randomness. While I do listen to the occassional album straight through, my prefered playlist generator on my ipod looks like this:

if LastPlayed is not in the last 10 days
and
if Genre is not Speech
and
if Genre is not Podcast
Limit to 25 songs selected by random
Live updating

The playlist is then played in random order to keep from keying on whatever ordering might have been in place.

While this doesn’t mean that I’m guaranteed to listen to all of those songs that don’t get played often, it does give them preference over something just heard. The next question is whether I can implement something similar with Quod Libet. There seems to be a queue-stuffing plugin, but it seems to select based on rating only.