trading up

I remember like it was yesterday. It was a day in early January and I had been working up north for the month of December and had a little extra cash for doing burning a hole in my pocket without knowing what to do with it. Now I had the trusty discman (yes a discman...gives you some perspective on the time this story is taking place huh?)that went everywhere with me. Mix Cd's were the order of the day...but something was missing...15 to 20 songs wasn't enough. so it was decided...a 4gig ipod nano would be purchased and life was good.

Here you had a little device that I could store 300-500 songs on(you found quite quickly live Phish albums/concerts took up alot of room)but not only did it hold alot it was not nearly as cumbersome. The nano was my new fashion accessory.

But as an ex-girlfriend told me once "things change, people change" and I decided today...that my nano had done enough..it had served its purpose but like that girlfriend years ago..I too needed a change.

So today armed with Best Buy gift cards I put the nano off to pasture with the purchase of a new ipod touch, 8gigs of music(and podcast) pleasure.....should go great with the bose headphones i got at Christmas...

You can thank the Rambler for this.

It has been said that one of the scariest things for a writer is the blank page infront of them.

I can understand that statement. You would think that for someone who is getting paid to, figurativly, put pen to paper, to expound on a topic to some depth of understanding that they have reached,and to have convey or share that information with others through your choice of words would be a little scary. To know that your mortgage, car, food and beer money is dependent on your understanding of the difference between "there",'they're" and "their' would be daunting.

Poor suckers ..just that thought makes me understand authors or writiers who drink.

That aint me...like to drink? absolutly. but being paid to write? furthest thing from it. I am just a dude who started a blog after his friend did and really enjoyed it.

But then somethiung happened, not sure what it was, but life got in the way and the blog went by the wayside a little. And after a couple of failed attempts at starting again here I am..attempt v.4.5.
I will make no promises about consistency but I think im feeling a little inspired again. Probably has something to do with seeing The HomeOffice start again and the constant updates by The Rambler...or that when you can't sleep you can only watch so much porn.

So stop by everyonce in awhile..I'll be here..

(soundtrack to this post..The Velvet Undeerground-Loaded)