Shuffle off to the Pool Party

On my 2nd day at QLogic the CEO announced wildly successful quarterly results and gave everybody in the company an IPod Shuffle! Whoo-hoo, sure beats the usual t-shirt. This, of course, means that I have to stop whatever else I was doing and figure out how this whole computerized music thing works. For those of us who grew up with vinyl albums, it's a big shock to the system. I wore my Shuffle to the Minicon Pool Party, allowing me to briefly be almost as cool as laurel. A few people were impressed. Others were baffled. Others wondered why those things only seem to come in white. I managed to lose one of the little foam earfoam berets. Fortunately the kit came with 2 extra.

In other news, as the proud possessor of a brand-new set of cross-country skis, I've been whining non-stop about the lack of snow, and implying that I would be in way better physical condition if the weather would only cooperate. The weather has finally called my bluff. So I guess I'll have to tear myself away from my computer (where I have been, naturally, reading CDs into my I-Tunes library) and go ski.

What the Sam Hill am I listening to here? It's amazing how different your record collection sounds when listened to in shuffle mode.

10 Things I've Done That You Haven't

1. Hitchhiked from Alaska to Connecticut
2. Rappelled down the side of a parking ramp
3. Loaded a live donkey into a Volkswagen microbus
4. Chased a moose in a canoe (I was in the canoe, the moose was in the water)
5. Spent the night in a hippie encampment in Big Sur
6. Taught a TCP/IP class
7. Seen a wolverine in the wild
8. Petted a coatimundi
9. Stood on the top of Mount Pisgah, in the Smoky Mountains
10. Drunk wine that retailed for $.39 a fifth (in America, if New Orleans counts)