Dreary day outside. Inside the same. However, I'm rocking to superchic[k] Princes and Frogs on the Digital Audio Player.
I sure do love that song - it's my fav now, over Barlow Girls (a close second). The rest of the Regeneration album plays a lot on the player.

I doubt anyone other than me listens to most of these artists - paige, Out of the Grey, Weird Al, superchic[k], Mark Schultz, Jeni Varnadeau, and others I'd add later. Shrug - I like them... that's what matters to me.

End of Sept!

Well, fall began last week, and October begins this week.
Time keeps slipping by.

Nothing new that I really want to talk about right now - maybe later.

I'm already finding the music player addicting. I've nearly finished the first pass through our collection. I skipped a variety of cds with speciality stuff on them - things that the kids or wife bought, christmas music, etc. I've got about 5 or 6 more cds to go. Then it will be time to start 'scavaging' through the kids rooms to see what CDs of mine they have so I can rip them.

I'm still waiting to find a better ripper/conversion program.
It's a pain, not having the computer on the internet. But
putting a windows 98 machine on the internet would be like
dropping someone into a bathtub of hungry critters...

And I have to keep reminding myself to take a break from the music. I know I would listen all day otherwise, and my brain would never have periods of silence , just to rest and recoop from the day's stress.

Well, this morning started out a bit nippy - temperatures were under 50 degrees F. Fall has come to central Ohio.

I've spent the weekend learning about my new rio forge MP3 player. Not bad - though it has too little built in storage. Time to start looking for reviews of SD and MM cards to extend the memory on it.

Last night we went to the football game (and watched the kids lose by 2 or 3 touchdowns). I was cold and in pain from the long sitting on the hard benches.
I don't think I can do this much longer...

Wow - it is really wet outside today. I stopped by BK to grab a crossanwich and when I opened the window to order I was soaked.

It seems pretty unlikely that I am going to want to go to the game tonite to watch my son play in the band... as to whether I do go, that remains to be seen.

Well, another week - a busy one. Yesterday, at work they replaced my old reliable SunBlade 100 with a shiny new SunBlade 1500.

At home, kids are busy and when I'm not at work or sleeping, I am cooking, washing dishes, doing laundry, taxi-ing, going to church, watching Tivo or watching DVDs.

So things have been relatively low key.

My oldest has his first regular job. It's in fast food (Burger King) and so is as close to full time without quite reaching that point. He could really use a job with benefits though.

Well, in the past week I've watched a fan dubbed release of Naruto (the first 27 episodes), Haibane Reimei, and something else which escapes me.

I've read the first volume of His/Her Circumstances.

And my eldest is hopefully starting tonite his first job.

So things are not bad.

On the other hand, it's been raining off and on all night and my number 2 son is supposed to perform with his band tonite for the opening of the Reynoldburg Tomato Festival. That should be ... exciting ... I guess.

A new month. How time flies when you're ... wait, I'm not having a lot of fun. Stress at work, home, and elsewhere makes things miserable often.

So ... what to do to relieve stress? I need some exercise.
Right now, my days consist of sitting at the keyboard from daylight until afternoon, then I walk to my vehicle, sit while driving 20 miles home, then go into the house, walk around doing chores until I am so tired I can't stand it, then sit down, read/play video games/watch tv/talk to family, then off to bed.

I get a 2 mile walk in a couple times a week - but I'm beginning to think that's not enough.

Oh, and I still can't decide on what mp3 player to buy.
I'm torn between the beauty of the iRiver and the practicality of the mpio which has removable sd/mmc card capability.