Do the shuffle...

Jen and I picked up an Ipod shuffle for me to take to work with me. I spend a lot of time out by my self running equipment, so music would help me greatly. I had been taking the nomad to work with me but it had it's draw backs. To begin with it huge, heavy and bulky. It doesn't' really fit in a pocket, and the belt clip it has is ripping off. Add to it that it was old, slow and the battery didn't really hold a charge any more and you get the need for a new mp3 player. Lets not even take into account that I had to hack things to make it sync up with the MAC, and even that didn't work all the time.

So, I have an iPod shuffle. It's orange and about the size of a postage stamp. I've had it for a few days, but didn't really take it anywhere. So today, after returning for Lansing with Tim I headed up to Howell to hang out with Jen for lunch. I took the iPod with me to listen to it on the way. As I stepped out the front door, while trying to clip it to my shirt, it slipped out of my hands and hit the cement where I proceeded to kick it. It still works great, but my nice shiny iPod has a chip in it.

Now, for insult to that injury. After getting back from hanging out with Jen I decided I'd start cleaning the garage out. It's been a shambles for a while now and just needed straightening. So headphones in ear I head into said garage and start cleaning. About 20 mins into it I have to use the bathroom, so I quickly head inside to the bathroom...

As I bend down to lift the toilet seat the ear buds pop out of my ear and drop down right into the water. After pulling the wet ear phones out of the water I placed them some where safe and got another set of head phones out. The iPod seemed to work great after that. No problems...

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We have a job in Lansing, Tim and I drove out there today to look at the job. It's 7,000 feet of silt fencing. The job is on 127 southbound right by the Lake Lansing exit.

We are doing the job next Tuesday, I need to be on site at 8:00am to meet the guys delivering the trencher. It's only a days worth of work out there, but at least it will be work. I feel sorry for Tim, he plans on being there at 8:30. So he's going to have to leave his house at like 6:00am.