As you read this, Wifey and I are driving, driving, driving — God knows where by this point. Thursday night I was pulling my hair out. You see, Wifey had a list of audio books and, well…

First of all, I never should have used iTunes. Yes, I’m a Mac fan. Love ‘em ever so much. But unless you own an iPod or you’re going to listen to your purchases on your computer… what a pain in the ass!

No, I want to listen to these things in the car, so what do I need to do? I’ve got twenty hour-long audio books, so guess what… I need twenty blank CD’s!

Give or take a dozen or so… because by the time I was done, I had a stack of 14 — yes, fourteen — coasters.

But you know what I think it was? I think I was jiggling my laptop. Yes, my lap was jiggling! Seriously, I noticed finally that if I shifted my laptop in my lap, the burn would fail.

Now as I type this, I’m leaning over a coffee table — nice and sturdy so the rest of the disks… yes, they’ve all finished.

So do I just play them on the car CD player or do I rip them? Yeah, what could possibly go wrong? :/

P.S. Sitting here in the hotel room I can tell you plenty that can go wrong. I did rip the CD’s and like a total f-ing idiot, I left them at home. I’m playing audio books from my phone (no choice about that) and so I might as well play MP3’s that way as well. I’m all about consistency, maybe to some extreme. You know those cassette adapters you use to plugin in your MP3 player and it plays on the car stereo? THEY SUCK. OK, maybe it’s my car stereo that sucks because every five minutes the stereo thinks the “cassette” is at the end and tries to turn it over. So ten seconds of audio are lost every five minutes. I don’t mind so much, but Wifey sighs and so we have to do something. My trusty GPS told me where I could find a Staples off of I-95, so I went and bought an FM adapter, but that only works well if there are clear spots somewhere, anywhere on the dial. Not so useful within a half hour’s drive of NYC. So for close to an hour we spent fiddling with that piece of crap. I swear when I get home I’m going to buy a built-in XM radio for the car that has inputs for MP3 players and whatnot.

and another thing… At least I’m smart enough to save this update in the system clipboard because the WI-FI here at the Holiday Inn Express is sucking bigtime. P.S. See, I shouldn’t have worried; it’s working great now. Hey, there’s another one of those semi-colons! Cool!! :)