so i've never been big on listening to music all day, which meant the ipod fad never appealed to me all that much. however, we had some friends come visit us last week from albuquerque, and he had a new and much improved (in my humble opinion) device over the ipod, called the sansa express MP3 player. I've been wanting an easy way to record the kids once in a while, just to have a record of little things they talk about, and what they sound like when they talk, but haven't had an easy/portable solution, until now. The sansa is really cool. It has a built in mic, so you can record, and it actually sounds good and can pick up everyones individual voice in a full minivan from the front seat;) It has FM radio recording abilities, too. Plus, it's very small (slightly bigger than a cigarette lighter), has a great display and backlight, and a necklace to hang it on (i think lanyard would be the correct term), and the USB port is part of the device, so you just plug it in wherever you want to get your tunes/download your recordings. I couple down sides...1. the lanyard is part of the cap for the USB port (instead of the player, which would be lost easily if it came apart from the cap). 2. you can't delete on the device. you can only delete through a PC. I found this a little frustrating after recording the kids talking, but decided not to keep it. 3. if you have a really old computer (like i do-got it in 1999), it might crash it when you plug it in, because it's not a high-speed USB port. all that aside, i love my new toy, and might even listen to music a little more often now;)
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Hey, you have a blog!
Remember: lack of comments doesn't mean people aren't reading. I would always check mine for comments when I was in Africa, and thought because there weren't many it meant that people weren't reading; however, now that I've returned, a lot of people have told me that they read them all. So keep it up!
thanks for the encouragement, jon. i know i was one of those people you speak of (reading it all the time, and never commenting). i actually thought of comments often, but i kept forgetting my user name and password, so it would take too long to get the comment up. oh well.
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