Taking a breather

My, my, my it is slow today. The weekend is well on its way...

Wow...

I'm more than half way through Factotum, a novel by Charles Bukowski. I'll give a full book report when I am done.

So..

...I decided to take up the offer to leave work and go home a little early...30 minutes...I figured I'd only lose $5 for the half hour. Plus, I wanted to get home as soon as I could because Chas wanted to go to this hootenany at the Apple store tonight. Except that I was a dumbass and left my lights on all day and the battery died. Normally I am pretty good about turning off my lights, but it was not foggy or dark by the time I made it to work, and for whatever reason I did not hear the ding ding to tell me I am a dumbass. Maybe I pulled the key out too early. Who knows. Anyhow, I managed to find someone to get a jump from, and then made my way home. Being the nervous person I can be with my car, I drove home without tunes. I dunno, but it was kinda nice to hear the traffic and all. And because it takes about 30 minutes to recharge the battery, I had to drive around a little more than usual, so I drove around the rich part of Winter Park near Park Avenue and then went home. Well, once I was home we headed out here to the Millenia Mall and here I am writing to you from the Apple store. Might visit Kris a little later, once this is over, but for now we need FOOD...because we're hungry.

More later. Going for food now.

Way cool!

I have to say, this is a really unique experience here at the Apple store tonight. The music for the event is played by a guy with 2 iPods and a small mixing board...and heavy duty sound system to share the tunes! All his music is stored on the iPods...no cds or records to haul around, get damaged, lost, or stolen...and between 2,500 and 7,500 songs per iPod (depends on the model) and twice more if the songs are encoded as mp4's. Amazing! I am really enjoying this. The guy has good taste too...he played Depeche Mode, Kraftwerk, John Foxx, Portishead, and some others I thought sounded familiar, but couldn't put my finger on.