Entries with tag "mp3"

I've always liked Red Chair Software, the company who makes Notmad Explorer, the software I use to transfer files to my MP3 player. Their software is way more intuitive than Creative's own software, plus they have fast service and are very helpful. This weekend I was reminded of all these things.

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Yesterday I took Natalia MP3 player shopping. She's been dutifully saving her allowance for five or six months, and she had finally saved up around $150. It was past my 10am bedtime, but she was really excited about going to get it, so I agreed to take her to buy it. We discussed what features she wanted, and at first it sounded like the iPod Shuffle would be an acceptable compromise, so we headed to CompUSA, the only store that had the Shuffle in stock. When we got the store and she saw it in person, though, she decided she wanted a player with a screen. I was impressed that she was mature enough to make that decision, even though that probably meant we'd have to mail-order it instead of taking it home that day (there isn't much selection in PR, since there's no Best Buys or Circuit Cities).

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When Andrés got down here last Monday, he finally convinced me to start running, and we've gone running around the neighborhood nearly every day since he arrived. There is a one-mile-long loop around my block, so for now we've just been doing one lap of that each day. I'm already noticing a difference; the first day, I ended up walking most of the way, and it took us something like 15-20 minutes to make it around the block. Yesterday, we jogged nearly all of it, stopping only twice to walk and catch our breaths, and it only took about 9 minutes. It's a challenge to overcome my aversion every day and force myself to go running, but it feels good later to know that you've done something worthwhile, and it's satisfying to see the improvement in ability. It has helped a lot to have Andrés pushing me each day when I resist, and by now I think I've got the momentum required, so it should be no problem to keep it up once he leaves on Friday. Perhaps I should wire something up so that you can give me an electric shock by clicking a button on my website, so people can punish me if I start to slack off in the future :)

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