Prizes and Pod People

I haven’t mentioned yet what I got for my birthday! An iPOD!

-As an introduction, when I grew up gifts were called ‘prizes’. My grandmother called them that, which annoyed my mother. She thought ‘prize’ made it sound like the person ‘won’ something. So we kids teased her with ‘Christmas Prizes” and “Birthday Prizes” and the term stuck.

I gave Someone an iPOD for his birthday a few years ago. He uses it all the time. When we go on car trips the ‘shuffle’ generates 10K worth of tunes to hear. What a device! So I am familiar with them. However, now that I own one I have to pay attention to how it operates.

Unfortunately while trying to clean up the iTunes we lost all our music, so Someone is doggedly downloading all our CDs. I daresay it will take weeks. Then, I can ‘load up’ the device and become one of the pod people.

Enya, Loreena McKennitt, Annie Lennox, Kate Bush, Earth Kitt, Bette Midler, Cher – and all the opera divas – in one small tiny shiny black box no bigger than a deck of cards.

I hope they get along!