iProblems

I am addicted to my iPod. I have been since I first got it three years ago. I use it every day and it is one of the few things I absolutely can not leave the house without. The other day it broke down and my life has not been the same since. I am hopelessly distraught and don’t seem able to appreciate anything anymore. When I’m waiting for the bus and hear the birds singing, it doesn’t make me think about how beautiful the simple things in life can be, it reminds me that my iPod is useless and I should be tapping my foot to the sounds of my favourite rock tunes right now.
I will try to get it fixed and if that fails I simply will have to acquire a new one, which raises a whole other bunch of problems, but I’ll cross that bridge when I come to it. Now, in desperate need for music in my ear as I go through my days, I have cleared out my closet and dug out my big box of old miscellaneous things. Including a lost treasure called the MiniDisc. The MiniDisc, or simply the MD as we used to call it, was a piece of miraculous technology I got my hands on in the late 90’s. When the Walkman was obsolete and the Discman was too big to carry around. Can you believe people walked around with those things? Teenagers today will never get their heads around it. What was great about the MD was that you could buy these tiny discs and store any music, and best of all in any order you desired and make your own little compilations. It was truly astonishing. Unless you wanted more than 25 songs on each one. I’m still waiting for that massive size disc. So during those blissful times I put together a bunch of compilations consisting of songs and music that rocked my world at the time. And now, it is serving its purpose once again. Who needs an iPod when I’ve got MiniDisc classics such as “Summer 2004 Awesome Mix”, “Springtime Rocks 2002” and, still my personal favourite, “Great Ass Walking Songs 2003”. In your face, Apple!