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I know I've already raved a little bit about how much I missed until I finally broke down and bought an iPod. But I never really remarked on why I find it to be that great of a gadget. For me, it's all the free stuff. Yeah, sure . . . I could spend all my hard-earned dollars buying music. I've found all kinds of albums on there that I either used to have on cassette ( I never splurged that much on music once CDs came out ) or wanted to get at any given time. Eventually I'll probably buy them either on CD and rip them or straight from the iTunes store.

For now, however, I'm really enjoying all the podcasts in both audio and video format. I never imagined that so much quality stuff could be found. I'd never even downloaded iTunes and installed it. My son did, but he doesn't have an iPod yet. ( Hmmmm . . . maybe Santa will bring him one this year if he's really, really good ) My favorites right now are Good Morning America, WebbAlert, WebNation and a few others that I watch or listen to when, technically speaking, I should be working.

Don't tell my boss. Okay?

I'm sure this new found obsession with the podcasts will fade a little over time and I'll get back to actually getting something done bright and early in the morning. So, as far as I'm concerned, what really makes the iPod so great is the fact that there's so much content out there and how easy it is to manage that content through iTunes. It really makes it much easier than I thought it would be.

Ok . . . Ok . . . I give in. I now realize what I've been missing. I should have listened to my son when he begged for one last Christmas. Then again, perhaps he should consider himself lucky.

If I would have bought one for him it most likely would have gotten swiped by me.

My iPod Classic arrived today and I made a special trip home to go get it, bring it back to work and spend an hour or so getting music for it. Apple makes it way too easy for me to buy music from their store.

Surrender . . . Surrender

I'm jamming to Cheap Trick's Surrender in case you haven't figured it out. How in the hell did I manage to get along without one of these? I must admit this is one of the best purchases I have made in quite a while. Too bad the kids will have to go without shoes this winter as Daddy will need to fill all 160 gigabytes with music.

Sorry kids . . . Santa came early and he didn't bring nothing for you two.

Unless you've been living under a rock, you're probably aware that Apple has inroduced a new and improved line of i-pods. I neither own a Mac or an iPod. However, I've been thinking about getting an iPod and I'm glad I waited. I'm eyeing the 160 gb iPod classic. Before today I was thinking about the 80gb version. But, since they decided to double the storage and not do anything with the price . . . well that pretty much seals it for me. While the touch iPod seems pretty cool, I would rather have the storage space of the classic versus the wifi of the touch iPod.

I got a new toy today.

I love it, too! I used it tonight (Friday) to take some pictures of my daughter's soccer game. I took roughly 43 pictures of which only 32 turned out good enough to use. That wasn't because of the camera - that was me. Photographing sports events isn't as easy as I had hoped.

I still think I got some decent photos. The good news is that I only used 1/3 of the battery ( if that ) in pretty close to one hour. I was also smart enough to get an additional 128 mb of memory - so I can take pictures to my heart's delight.

Today I will try to get pictures of my son's game and post those too. I also started an account at Flickr. I only uploaded 3 pictures there. Feel free to browse through. Needless to say, I will probably be taking as many senseless, self-indulgent photos as humanly possible in the very near future. I'm already planning my next photo escapade.

BMWs must be pretty cheap in British Columbia if one can decide to ram apartment buildings with them. The story here. I would rather cruise in a BMW.