another day
another cold morning. Not as cold as yesterday, my hands didn’t really start feeling cold until after about 10 miles. Being able to listen to podcasts has definitely made it less monotonous; however, I hope I’m not seriously fucking up my hearing by having the volume up so high. Oh well, like my cousin, an audiologist told me, by the time my hearing is fucked, there will be technology available to fix it. Another gorgeous sunrise this morning. I’m gonna have to start bringing my camera with me so I can take pictures (even though it’ll most likely just be pictures from my parking lot, but oh well).
Onto other issues, after having received my annual stability pay check (which is pretty decent this year) I’ve decided that I’m going to upgrade my good ol’ freeiPod. After doing some research yesterday, I’ve settled on the Cowon A2. It’s a pretty cool device, about the size of a DS Lite, 4″ screen, 10 hours of battery life for videos. That’s outstanding, considering the 5.5g iPods can only do about 4 hours. It also has a buttload of codec support and can even play ac3 audio file. The only thing I have against it is the fact that it only has a 30gb hard drive. I suppose for the price it’s alright and it is still 10gb larger than my current iPod, but other than that, it seems like quite the little handheld. My only other concern is that shortly after I obtain it, I just know they are going to release the A3. As much as I’d like to have a single device that does everything I need or want, it will probably never exist. As it stands, once I have the A2 my standard device loadout will consist of the A2 for videos, long haul MP3 usage and text reading, the Ditty for podcast listening, and my SDA for PDA types of things, which still leaves with me 3 devices (used to be Axim 30 for video/text reading, T610 cell and 4g iPod).
