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April 5, 2007

iLeen’s iPod Update

Or How Technology Rocks Except When It Doesn’t.

You may remember the untimely demise of my iPod Shuffle. Despite the fact that it was my own damn fault that I shorted the poor little thing out with sweat (everybody else can manage to get a little dinglehopper to put their iPod in, but no, I had to tuck it in my waist band like an idiot), Cowboy who is now officially being nominated for Best Boyfriend Ever got me an iPod Nano.

It wasn’t even my birthday.

I loved my little shuffle. It was very straightforward and easy to use and at first I thought getting me the Nano was total overkill. I mean, he already scored all kinds of points by buying me a new gizmo for no reason except he loves me and wants me to be happy, how much more relationship capital did he need? It actually made me a little paranoid that he was planning to do something heinous. Apparently that was not the case, but I digress.

I have to admit it was exciting to put both of the music libraries I had on the Nano and be able to choose between them. Then Whitney said something about listening to audio books on her iPod! A revelation! How cool would that be? So last week when I was going to be driving around California for hours at a time by myself, I bought a book on CD. I hadn’t quite finished it when I got home, so I PUT THE REMAINDER ON MY IPOD!!! I can now listen to a book while I’m running or cleaning or peeling potatoes. It is so awesome.

On little hint for anyone who tries this. . . remember to turn off the “shuffle” function. For a little while, the very tightly plotted, suspenseful book I was listening to completely fell apart and got really confusing before I realized my iPod was jumping randomly from chapter segment to chapter segment with no real regard for any kind of linear thinking.

Then this week, I figured out how to download Podcasts! Oh. My. God. I downloaded all four of Lani’s Will Write for Wine episodes and have been listening to them at the gym. If you haven’t listened to these, run run run to Will Write for Wine and start listening right away.

One little hint for anyone who tries this . . . be very careful what you’re doing while listening to the Inauguratory episode. Yes, I meant to type Inauguratory. You got a problem with that? If so, talk to Lani. It’s her word. Anyway, near the end of the episode when Lani’s been drinking for about forty-five minutes, she tries to say “Walter Cronkite” and I almost killed myself falling off the elliptical at the gym because I was laughing so hard.

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Posted by: Delilah at April 6, 2007 11:58 AM

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Posted by: Lani at April 8, 2007 2:23 PM

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Posted by: The LC Eileen at April 11, 2007 12:17 PM