The MP3 Player

I may be almost the last per­son in the world to get them­selves an MP3 player, but I finally got one yes­ter­day, a Cre­ative Zen Xtra Nomad Juke­box.  Yes, it’s obso­lete tech­nol­ogy, but it was dirt cheap and is large enough (30GB) to hold most, if not all, of my CD col­lec­tion.  I knew I didn’t need super-portable — I need some­thing to sit beside me or in a pocket so I can lis­ten to music with head­phones while I’m grad­ing or read­ing or lam­p­work­ing or col­lag­ing or what­ever.  It’ll also hook up to my car cas­sette adapter so now when I travel, I don’t have to has­sle with try­ing to guess what CDs I’ll want to lis­ten to on the trip.  I can just take it all with me!  Woohoo!!!