For those of you who know me, you may know that I tend to "latch on" to something and get a little obsessed for a short time. Then I could care less about whatever I was obsessed with. That's the main reason I don't own a PS3 or an XBox 360 - I wouldn't get bored with the system, but I would buy a $60 game, play it every free moment until I getabout halfway through it, then never play it again. It's too expensive a hobby to get hooked on.For a while my obsession was downloading music: remember when I jumped from about 20 CD's to over 3500 songs? That was a bit obsessive. But now I have a new obsession: downloading Audiobooks.
Audrey is having a hard time falling sleep at night, and I've spent time almost every night rocking her to try to get her into a deep sleep. Since I can't have a light on very bright, it gets really boring. So I started DLing Audiobooks to load on the iPod so I can wear one earbud and help pass the time. I started with "The Ten O'Clock People" - a short story by Stephen King - and got hooked. When I finished that story, I wanted to get another one to replace it. So I searched my super-secret resource and found one. Then another. And another. Pretty soon I had over 40 audiobooks on my computer. That's right: forty. Wow.
I've got everything from the Harry Potter Series to the Chronc(what?)cles Of Narnia to "The Lord Of The Flies" to "I Am America And So Can You" by Stephen Colbert to Ellen Degeneres' book "The Funny Thing Is...." and a ton more. The pic on this blog is a book that I hadn't heard of, but after reading the reviews on Amazon I had to get it. There are some that I've read in book form before, and some that I've never even heard of. Pretty exciting.
Here's the problem: the audiobooks aren't as popular as mp3 albums so the tagging and file splits aren't that great on some books - "Survivor" and "Fight Club" by Chuck Palahniuk are only 7 tracks that are about an hour and a half each. On the other side of the coin, Ellen's book is 27 tracks that are only 7 minutes each. It's going to take me quite a bit of time to change the split points and get these books all coded into iTunes. Once I get them done though, I can burn them all to CD's and archive them forever.
Unless I lose this obsession before I'm done - I'd better start with the books I really want to listen to just in case.
2 comments:
That is awesome, dude. Dare I say it's Legen...
dary?
It's a really good sign that you're being called back for a second interview. Take if from someone who has been on the hiring side of a lot of interviews, most people hate conducting interviews, so they only call people in for second interviews if they were really impressed during the first one. Clearly, you rocked it.
Man, I just typed the word interview, like, 64 times. Ever notice how words stop looking like words if you type them too much?
Hey, after you're done storming the financial world in your snazzy suit, could you maybe post some more pictures of your cute little girl?
Um...yeah...
I totally meant to put that comment on psot above it.
Audio books are cool, too, though.
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