IPod Project Update: Finishing up

I am now on song 16900 of 16902 (!). It's "2000 Light Years From Home" by the Stones, with only "2000 Miles" by Pretenders and "2112" by Rush left, (the ipod sorts alphabetically by putting numbers at the end)

yet I'm almost sad about it. what should I do next? Start over? I do have LOTS of stuff on there that I didn't have when I started this project in January '06 with my long gone 30gig ipod.

I'll have to think about that

oops - Stones song is done. Pretenders now--only one more to go!

UPDATE: Friday morning: I created a playlist of all the songs that have never been played since I got the 80g ipod and it's 7890 tracks. Which is a lot. It's mainly songs that come alphabetically prior to wherever I happened to be on my A-Z playlist, plus all tracks that come before I -- that's what I was up to on the old one when it died 2 yrs ago.

So you won't hear me mention it again for a while--this is at least a years worth, if I average 20 songs a day. And I bet no one's interested anyway so I'll shut up about it now

Freddy update; Project ipod update

Freddy's bum knee has been quite an issue in our house. He's been on some pain killers which give him constipation, and when he does finally do his evil business, he hasn't always been able to find the box. It was really bad in the wee hours of Tuesday morning when I came down to check on him & he was asleep on top of some dirty nuggets right on his tuffet. I cleaned him and the tuffet up & put him back to bed.

Thankfully, his knee seems to have improved somewhat and he's getting around the house much better--even jumping up to sleep in our bed during the day, so he hasn't had to take any more of Dr. Spaceman's pain pills for a few days and he's been much more successful at finding/using the box for his scud missiles. We're taking him to the vet again Saturday morning & hope that he'll be doing even better by then. Thanks to everyone who's asked about him--we all appreciate your concern.

Ipod project update:
I filled up my 80Gig ipod a couple weeks ago and seem to be in the homestretch of my quest to listen to all the songs on it from A to Z.

Right now song #14763 (of 16383) is playing. It's "Velvet Snow" by Kings of Leon, from their Aha Shake Heartbreak cd. A good album, I say. If you were asking, I mean.

This means I have 1620 songs left - the end is in sight! Hopefully by the end of 2008 my quest will be complete. oops--it just switched to "Venice Queen" by the Red Hot Chili Peppers. That means only 1619 to go!

Kris, Ben & Barry plus ipod project update

Our friends Kris & Ben were at Wrigley last Thursday for the Cubs-Giants game (Ben's a Cubbies fan from way back) and they weren't even sure if Barry would play, since he was limited to one pinch hit appearance the 2 prior games of the series. But it turned out that Ben bought tickets for the right game --they got to see Barry go 3 for 3 with 2 Homers and 6 RBIs--career homers #752 and 753! NICE! He knocked out the first pitch he saw leading off the 2nd inning, then later popped a 3-run shot to center, right into a into a stiff headwind. The guys on ESPN that night said they didn't think anyone would hit one out to center that afternoon.

here's Barry receiving props from former Mariner Randy "Winny" Winn after HR #2 that day:

and I think that might be Ben holding up that sign,
though it would probably be held up much higher if it really is him:

ALSO: here's the latest update on my ipod a-z project, which I started on January 1, 2006. My goal is to listen to the entire contents of my ipod, al l in alphabetical order.

as of 4:23 PM Monday July 23: Currently listening to "Some Might Say" by Oasis. (I just heard "Some Like It Hot" by Power Station 3 times in a row from a number of 80s compilation cds I have on there--really glad that's over with).

"Some Might Say" is song #10617 of 14412.
I had hoped to finish by the end of this year, and still might but I'll need to focus and stop listening to other stuff when I'm at work. Big thanks to Kris for helping me stay on task with this when we were visiting her family's place outside of San Jose a couple weeks ago--we cranked through a lot of the S's that weekend. (Thanks for hosting us too!)

100 Million iPods Sold

Apple announced this week that 100 million iPods have been sold worldwide. Jim and I alone have purchased 3 iPods (the first one actually died on us), and 2 iPod shuffles. I'm not complaining; I love my iPods and so does Jim.

Apple iPhone Announcement

Well they've done it again, Steve Jobs and those smartypants engineers at Apple have come up with a new ipod/phone/web browser, as announced at the MacWorld expo this AM. Not that I'm a huge MacNerd, but this means that the 80Gig ipod that I bought as soon as it was announced, and have had for less than 4 months, is now officially obsolete.

But check this thing out--pretty cool:
and this is the how the iTunes CD search looks:just like a jukebox--sweet!

I thought it was pretty cool that Jobs quoted Gretzky in his closing:

"I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been."

OK I'm done gushing now.

The bad news? Not available til June.
The worse news? 4GB model will be $499, 8GB will be $599.
I'm betting you can't fit too many Pirates of the Caribbean sequels on a 4GB device.