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This is almost the very definition of a typical salesman:

He paid a personal visit to our customer's business. He handed out donuts. He promised a great rate on an upcoming shipment, but didn't give any reference number. He also didn't enter anything about the quote in our system.

As the shipment date approached, he didn't answer his work phone or respond to the message left there. He didn't answer his cell phone, or respond to the message left there. He didn't respond to e-mail.

The customer calls me wanting a quote number. I said, "I'm sorry, there isn't one... just write "quote per (Salesman's Name)".

I know that will work because we do it all the time... sad to say.

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So I posted last week about my iPod putting a lot of songs in order by artist, and all at the end of my playlist, when it was supposed to be on random shuffle mode.

Gene pointed out that "random" means stuff like this can happen too -- but it still seemed very odd to me. Virtually every band that I had more than one or two songs of on the 160-song playlist was at the end of the playlist, with all of their songs listed one after the other. A few songs coming up in a row is odd -- what I noticed was more than that. It seemed very improbable.

Today I noticed that the first four songs were all "Summer" songs that I'd moved to the top of my playlist for that very reason back around May or June -- at a time when I wasn't shuffling the playlist. Further investigation revealed that, yes, the most recent songs added to the list were at the bottom -- and usually when I discover a new band I add several songs of theirs at once, later pruning the ones that don't interest me as much. Of course, I used to move new songs up to the top of the list so I could listen to them, but I stopped doing that when I put the list on random shuffle mode.

So my playlist isn't on random shuffle anymore... that would explain it. The only question is whether I just turned off shuffle mode in Itunes somehow, or whether my iPod is doing something more weird....

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( Today's Song: The Laws Have Changed by The New Pornographers )