Trying to do two things at once here. I just sold some old boots on eBay, and I need to get with the buyers. While waiting for the web page to load, I started reading some of the conversation goin on at the hub that's causing the Internet wait in the first place. At least for me anyway. Stay with me here.

See, I have a program running that gives me access to a hub where people talk about audiobooks. Ok, they share them too, but it's not p2p like the dreaded Napster. Anyway, it slows things down when you have a lot of traffic leaving your computer for parts unknown all the time. I can regulate the speed so that my Internet experience isn't degraded too much, and in fact that's what I was doing when I caught a glimpse of the conversation. So, now I would like to save it here for posterior... er, posterity. Yeah, that's the word..... Ok, here goes....

***BearyGrrl*** okay hitchhiker's guide ripped okay
***BearyGrrl*** happy happy
***Always_Share*** great to hear
***BearyGrrl*** yeah this one is unabridged performed by the author
***Always_Share*** cool
***BearyGrrl*** too bad he won't be writing any more :)
***Always_Share*** I take it he is dead?
***BearyGrrl*** Yes, he does indeed seem to be suffering from that lack of respiration problem. :)
***skimbler*** sadly he has also stopped moving as well
***Always_Share*** so only 8 new books will pop up in his name
***skimbler*** shame he can't dictate some more books from the 'other side'
***BearyGrrl*** skimbler: maybe we could get john edwards to talk to him. :)
***skimbler*** sorry, BearyGrrl, don't know the reference
***skimbler*** john edwards?
***KrOtChRoTT*** aah.. he's a fraud.. get silvia brown
***BearyGrrl*** john edwards is a medium with a tv show who channels dead people :)
***skimbler*** wow, and he gets paid to do that?
***BearyGrrl*** not a bad gig really :)
***skimbler*** well, nobody's gonna come back and sue him fr libel

Yes, I know it's kinda hard to follow, but that's the way it is with chat. You have to use your imagination. Get a different image in your mind for every nickname, then imagine them all in a bar holding drinks, or at a table having dinner... maybe even at a party you are hosting in your own living room!!!

Ok, I think it's funny, funny for a bunch of bookworms having a conversation anyway.

Here it is 10:00 already and I haven't done a damn thing but read some of the news about what's goin on in the world. And I haven't even perused the offbeat web sites I like to look at that give you the slanted view. I haven't even touched my Nomad yet, I reloaded it yesterday... which took almost all fucking day!! Not that I'm complaining, it's actually pretty nice that I can go for months at a time without reloading it with more books to listen to. In fact that's the main reason it takes me so long, I forget how to get it done efficiently!! Yep, it never fails that I end up needing to redo something because the files weren't named or tagged right so they play in order and as I like to hear them.

Here's the process. First I load everything into a separate directory so I can upload it all at once to the Nomad, and so I can manipulate the file names and tags as I stated before. Just getting everything in that separate directory can be time consuming, I always try to que up at least 10GB of shit. At an average of 5-6 books per GB, that's a lot of files to get through. It's a good thing I have a good collection to choose from.

Then I have to do the tagging and renaming. I have a program that makes the process easy, but it's time consuming because there's always so many. All this can take a couple of hours to do, not counting actually uploading to the Nomad. If I did it right the first time less than half a day would be sufficient. But being the unorganized person that I am, it takes me longer because inevitably something gets screwed up or forgotten in the process.

Things are happening here. Got clothes to wash, kids to get moving... and I haven't fed the dog yet. He's good because I gave him an extra treat late yesterday. I had sardine's on crackers yesterday for lunch, (my wife says it's good for you because they have 'omega' oils, whatever that is... sposed to be good for your heart... you try it? I'm not gonna try it, YOU try it... I'm not gonna try it..... ) sorry, got carried away there. Anyway, I poured the leftover oil in the can over some of Baloo's dog food as a treat for him. He love's that shit! So he's good till lunchtime today, when I'll give him a can of dog food mixed with his dry so I can put his thyroid pill in with it. He eats his food so fast when I do that I don't have to worry about whether he gets the pill or not, everything within a 5 inch radius of his dish gets sucked into the void in just a few minutes. I don't know how long it takes, but I know he doesn't taste it, he barely chews!! The concept of 'savoring' is lost on him.

I decided to time him, it took less than 3 minutes for him to gobble that stuff down. And that's only because it all sticks together and he has to really dig to get at the food.....