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Packing and toys

To paraphrase Gunnar Bob: "I don't pack, but I'm packing!" Got eight boxes of books packed tonight; I'm estimating there'll be about twenty by the time I'm done. It feels a little like cheating to start with the books, since those seem like they'll be the easiest things to pack, but they probably amount to more than half my non-furniture Stuff, by weight or volume. The Stuff that isn't books or furniture probably adds up to: a few boxes of assorted papers, a few boxes of kitchen stuff, a few boxes of clothes, a box or two of bathroom stuff, a few boxes of assorted knick-knacks and tchotchkes. TV, assorted computer components, a couple of lamps. I'm sure there's more that I'm not thinking of (a couple boxes of assorted foodstuffs, and by the way don't forget to buy a refrigerator), but I think most of the rest of it is furniture. Anyway, I think I'm out of book-sized boxes, and it's a little late to be banging pots and pans in the kitchen. So I'm gonna stop packing and go read subs. Aren't I virtuous?

Oh, but first (unrelatedly): Kam and I stopped by the Apple Store this afternoon, just before I took her to the airport so she could fly off for two weeks in Prague and a week in Munich, and I picked up an ultra-teeny voice-memo recorder unit for my iPod. So far, I'm not terribly impressed; I think it probably won't work well for what I want it for (recording in the noisy environment of my car at freeway speed). But I also got a teeny mini portable speaker unit (slightly bigger in two dimensions than the iPod, and slightly flatter in the third) that should be very useful for next time I rent a car; the sound quality on that is surprisingly good, though I haven't yet tried it in the car.

And that's the news from Lake Jedbegone. G'night!

Comments

I've been thinking about buying the voice recorder for my iPod. My primary use would be for making notes while I read Swapa, so I could do comments later. I've never been able to make myself take notes while reading Swapa, and I thought that if I could do it vocally, I might.

Is the quality low overall, or is it just that you think it won't work well in a noisy environment?


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