Today my employment ended - but that's not the point. The point is how I react to it, and I react to it pretty well. I got my vacation pay, I'm not in any sort of trouble by any stretch of the imagination, and I get a long weekend to chill and enjoy myself. And maybe clean up a few things around the house ( Read more... )

I am a little sad that Rockbox does not yet support "old-school" tracker-style music (.mod, .s3m, and formats ripped from console games like .nsf and .spc)... yet. I have a lot of old music in some of these formats. I can get a lot more without too much effort. It takes up a lot less space than MP3 does, because the music itself is merely ( Read more... )

Rockbox is installed. (I wasn't planning on returning this thing anyway. ;) Where the iRiver's default firmware made the system highly customizable, Rockbox appears infinitely customizable (which makes sense, with it being open source and all). There's a lot to learn about this sucker, and I plan to make as much of it as possible - when both of ( Read more... )

The saga continues; we are now in possession of one 20GB iRiver H120. It looks like this. It's the first one I'm going to have the chance to work with on a regular basis (though I don't exactly have a whole lot of spare time that I want to sit around with headphones on these days). Bearing that in mind, so far, I kind of like it ( Read more... )

In preparation for lots and lots of fun with external devices, I've gone on a tagging spree, with both my own collection and hers. This has the potential of being slightly frustrating for her, as some of her files are getting renamed in the process - one must uphold standards for naming conventions - and her playlists are suffering a few dead ( Read more... )

This is starting to look like it'll be an ongoing miniseries.

The option we've settled on: the iRiver H120 (20GB).
Several reasons:

* Our space requirements are much less than we thought, but
* this model is apparently one of the easiest to upgrade (if necessary) with a 40GB drive (which will be more than enough for me, even abroad), and
* custom ( Read more... )

Technically, I'm stealing something from eowyn797 to post here, but mainly because I'm pooling our resources in terms of learning more about Big-Ass MP3 devices ( Read more... )

( How I Did It )

It feels like it's been a month since I had to start doing this, but it's been a week.

Abusing substances is not part of my path. The last two times I've allowed myself to drink excessively, things have gone... astray... and have only partially been patched up. Once is a mistake, but twice is a problem ( Read more... )

Note to Present Self from Past Self: "And nothing is more difficult than learning to love people for their weaknesses as well as their strengths."

While it would be probably be good emotional practice to write two full essays on why I love and hate someone who's on my mind this evening, the soapbox is most definitely not the place for it. As ( Read more... )