Thanks For The Warning, Bill Gates

As a rule, every Sunday afternoon is spent at Diva Stacy's, where we socialize and enjoy each other's company.  It's usually a peaceful, relaxing afternoon.  Unfortunately, yesterday wasn't the case.  We spent almost two hours sitting at her computer, trying to get her daughter's new MP3 player to work.  Believe me when I tell you we were never as frustrated as we'd been in a long time. 

The first bout of frustration came when we couldn't find the proper CD to attempt to download onto the MP3 player.  Diva Stacy asked her daughter about two or three CDs, and each time got the same response: "I don't know where it is."  No problem.  She was able to find the popular "High School Musical" CD soundtrack so we thought it would be a breeze to get it onto the MP3 player. Not so fast.  We tried and tried but couldn't get the song tracks to show up on Windows Explorer.  After about 40 minutes of fooling with it, we finally were able to get the tracks to appear, only to be hacked off when we discovered that they weren't downloading onto the MP3 player.  Diva Stacy had the bright idea that maybe we should purchase a song from iTunes using a gift card her daughter got for her birthday.  Well, it sure made sense to me.  Imagine our surprise when we spent another 40 minutes trying to get the downloaded song (from the group "Panic At The Disco") onto the MP3 player.  Yes, I did say the word "trying."  No luck, either.  After another 40 minutes of trying everything over and over again and rebooting the computer about a dozen times, it was finally Surrender Dorothy time. 

We gave up, and later last night, Diva Stacy had an epiphany.  It dawned on her that we were trying to download to the MP3 player using a new computer that was running Windows Vista -- it was not compatible with the slightly older MP3 player.  All we will say is thank you very much Bill Gates and Microsoft for giving us the head's up on Vista possibly not being compatible with slightly older electronic devices.  So you've been warned, faithful readers.  Read the fine print (if it's available) if you are using a computer with Windows Vista.