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iPod, uPod, we all pod for iPod

I always knew I had an iPod in my future. It was inevitable that what everyone else had discovered last year would eventually make it's way to me grubby little geek hands eventually. But for about the first time in my life, I'd not indulged my instant gratification need for gizmo's and decided to wait to buy one. To actually save up for it or as the case may be, to wait and save until Amber came through for me.

Well, in a somewhat questionable move by Jeff to either be a loving partner rewarding my materialist prudence or to circumvent a coming brawl for stranding me at home after New Years by taking my credit cards, he arrived home Friday night with a bright, shiny new 40GB iPod with my name on it. It's hard to stay mad in the face of such a white flag of truce. Yes, I'm just that easily manipulated.

So I've been pouring through all our CD's this weekend, loading everything up that I could possible want to listen to and have come to this irrefutable fact: my musical tastes SUCK. I was talking to someone earlier this weekend making that same confession and he said my tastes were just eclectic. I think having Lords of Acid sitting right next to my favorite tracks from Disney's "Hunchback of Notre Dame" would say otherwise. And for all the schlock I put on the iPod, there is an equal amount that I haven't because I can't for the life of me figure out why I bought it in the first place. Lots of early 90's electronic stuff from The Shaman that harkens back to those days when I was a gay-bar twink wearing metallic-dyed hair gel, I suppose. I do have an inordinate amount of soundtracks and cast recording albums (I can finally have immediate access to Fiddler on the Roof when I need to practice my bottle dancing) and of course just about everything Vangelis ever produced. I cut back and only put on my favorite Enya tracks but loaded just about everything from Pink Floyd. The biggest delight was being able to pick up all those single songs that were favorites but which we'd bought the whole album to get which is why iTunes has been such a great thing as I've gone back and picked up several songs and whole albums which I'd either lost or damaged beyond repair over the years.

Now I'm afraid I'm going to drop this thing in the toilet and lose the last 24 hours I spent ripping CD’s, watching the 658 songs I have sitting on the thing lost to the murky depths. So I'm not going to wear it to the bathroom for now.