New iPod Classic 160G
Before heading out on the Summer of Love, our 6-week family road trip, I suggested to Tammy that we may want to consider getting one of the big iPod Classics. We are going to put a lot of time in the van on this trip, and the van has a full AV input that can take the audio signal as well as video. We picked up the 160G unit before the trip and I was really happy to be able to put every single on of our 15,000 songs on it as well as a dozen movies for Mazie and even had enough room to put 4 rented movies on it for us.
Today was the first day of use and I was really happy we splurged for this extra. It was just great to have all of our music on hand at any whim. It was also nice being able to play movies for Mazie without having to fumble around with the DVDs and then navigate their menus to get them playing.
I love this use case for rentals too. We dumped 4 rentals on the iPod and will just watch them as we wish over the next 4 weeks of the trip.
We also happened to have a set of compact speakers to use with our other flash-memory based iPod. I’m still getting life out of the iPod Mini that I have using it only for kids music. But now we can drop the iPod Classic in it on our stays and enjoy some tunes in between the drives too.
All Day on I-94
Today we loaded up in the Honda Odyssey and started our big trip.
Packing was a bit last minute, we weren’t really done until just shortly
before leaving. It was a pretty busy weekend.
Today was spent entirely in the van except for two quick stops for food. We went about 15 miles from our house and got on I-94 and didn’t let it leave our site the whole day. Mazie did a great job all things considering. We fired up a bunch of different music on the new iPod Classic that we got for the trip. Mazie enjoyed a full watching of Charlotte’s Web as well. Tunes for the day included Son Volt, Willie Nelson and Frank Sinatra among others.
In 24 hours we leave for our 6-week trip around the western US. Much to do before leaving.
Gibber Jabber
Yesterday we had a birthday party for Mazie. Her actual birthday is a few weeks away and we’ll be in Las Vegas on the Summer of Love trip at that time. So, we had this one so she could celebrate with the family. She had a great time and really got into the birthday celebration. She also likes to make up words. Here she is having a great time doing just that for the camera, and Uncle Max joins in the fun as well.
She had just eaten all the frosting off of her cake. 🙂
I keep thinking that I need a license for Yep. It does a great job. I’m not sure why I sit on the fence about it so much.
Battling with iTunes and my new iPod Classic 160G to get it to take my DVD rips. Just wont go and everything looks fine.
Have now officially begun travel packing for Summer of Love - West Coast.
Just saw Iron Man. Great flick. Definitely one to see in the theater.
40 Under Forty Award
I got the exciting news a couple of weeks ago that I was selected to be one of the recipients of the Minneapolis St. Paul Business Journal’s 40 Under Forty awards. The process to be selected involves a nomination process. The editors receive letters from people and then sift through those to figure out who to pick. My sincerest thanks to Dan Grigsby who threw my name into the ring first, as well as everyone else who suggested me for this award. Lastly, thanks to John Riedl for taking the great quotes. Thank you! The Business Journal has been doing this award for at least 11 years now (2006 Winners, 2007 Winners). Dan Grigsby is also a winner this year. Looking in the past years I see Andrew Eklund of Ciceron. Going all the way back to 1999 shows my friend and founder of BigCharts, Philip Hotchkiss. It’s great to join such company.
This is a great way to cap off the last decade as I transition into the next chapter. A cherry on the top if you will.
There is a dinner tonight at the Minneapolis Club for this event. Looking forward to meeting everyone else!
