I haven’t seen 24 yet—have it on tape—so I’ve been trying to avoid spoilers all day. It’s been easy—I haven’t seen it mentioned anywhere. Not a peep. I’ll get a chance to watch it tonight, I think. Thanks to March Madness and post-sweeps malaise, most of the shows that I normally watch are reruns. Tonight, NCIS, The Unit and Boston Legal are all reruns. I don’t mind—I have lots of other things to keep me busy this week, as reported yesterday.
I did a little work on my CD column this morning, and wrote the first half of my Storytellers Unplugged essay. I finished The Intruders by Michael Marshall yesterday and picked up Dan Simmons’ The Terror, which has been gathering dust on my bedstand for a few months. I’m still not halfway through the book, but this time I’m going to try to stick with it. For those familiar with the novel, I just finished the Carnivale scene on New Years Eve, followed by the flogging. I’m not quite sure why I’m having a hard time getting through this book. I like the bits I read as I read them, but then I put the book down and when I pick it up again, the characters all seem to blur together.
I bought a neat little gizmo today that plugs into the cigarette lighter in a car and to an iPod so it charges the mp3 player, and it’s also an FM transmitter so you can listen to the iPod over your car stereo. I’d been thinking about getting something more elaborate—a docking station—but this is just what the doctor ordered for that upcoming long road trip. Since I’ve got just about every CD in the house transferred to the iPod and I still have about 10 GB free space, I’m essentially taking our entire music library with me. Technology rocks.
