With my paper sitting at a respectable 75% complete – well, it would be respectable if it weren’t due in a few hours – I’m busy searching for more ways to procrastinate.\u00a0 It’s not really that difficult when you’re computer has Internet access, iTunes, and you’ve got room on your credit card to purchase music.<\/p>\n
I have to listen to something when I’m writing.\u00a0 Sitting in silence is far too distracting.\u00a0 If I were to fall back on reading Web comics (checkout Save Hiatus<\/a> and HijiNKS Ensue<\/a>) or watching Dr. Horrible<\/a> (downloaded via iTunes natch) or The Guild<\/a>, I’d never get any writing done.<\/p>\n We’re not huge audiophiles in this family.\u00a0 However, we both have iPods stocked with our favourite music for travel, school, and work purposes.\u00a0 While Drew seems content to limit himself to the number of songs he can fit on his 4GB mini and 2GB nano, I’m happily filling my 20GB classic.\u00a0 Hey, I never said they were new iPods!\u00a0 We may be early adopters for many technologies but we tend to limit future upgrading to necessity instead of desire.\u00a0 Or at least that’s what I like to try and tell myself.<\/p>\n Between the two of us we’ve probably purchased 40 CDs in the last decade.\u00a0 That works out to about 2 CDs a person each year.\u00a0 Ooh.\u00a0 Big spenders.\u00a0 Usually we purchase CDs for artists we love (thus explaining my complete U2 collection) or greatest hits compilations.\u00a0 After transferring the CD contents into our iTunes so we can listen to them while working on papers or on our iPods, the CDs then move into the trucks and live out their lives in plastic cases between station flipping on the radio.<\/p>\n