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Oh, the irony. I get my kids’ mp3 players when they upgrade. Well, ok — there’s a bit more to the story…

I recently took a survey for a vendor that we use at the day job. Part of the incentive to take the survey was the “some random survey taker will win an iPod” message. Ok, so I took 10 or 15 minutes and plowed through it. And lo and behold…. a few weeks later I am notified that I’ve won an iPod shuffle.

Back last Christmas, the daughter was hinting that she’d really like an iPod as a gift. As a tightwad father, I have to confess I didn’t see the need to spend gobs more money on one brand of mp3 player than other brands that did more, held more and were cheaper. Sorry, I’m just not quite ready to spend extra money for the logo. In discussing this with daughter, it turned out she was also quite interested in “the cube.” Looked at it, seemed like a great value and it became her present.

Turns out she hadn’t quite given up the dream of having an iPod… once she heard that I’d won the shuffle, she called dibs on it! On my shuffle. Oh, for shame… Well, the shuffle was 512 and her cube was 1GB. We toyed around with the notion of trying to return the shuffle at a large nationwide retailer and trade up to the Nano but frankly, the ethics of the thing bothered us all. So this afternoon we swapped.

I plug the thing into my laptop and suddenly realize I now have a 1GB USB drive. This thing holds a bunch of tunes but I can also throw all my utilities on it too. Now I have room to look into more of the portable apps too. Ok, I didn’t need the iPod that badly…

One Response to “So I Get My Kid’s MP3 Hand-me-Downs…”

1. Rich G. on April 2nd, 2006 7:28 pm
   

   I’ve wondered about the cube’s and now that I’ve got a testimonial from somebody I trust I’m ordering one…. Probably a 2Gig one though.

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