You've all certainly noticed there
You've all certainly noticed there have been no jefftidball.com posts since last Tuesday, which is pretty feeble. I haven't even been all that busy. Oh, I've been working on stuffógetting caught up on a bunch of long-outstanding business at work, actuallyóbut none of it has been what you'd call high priority. Certainly no emergencies on any front that would prevent me from taking five minutes to throw something up here. I've even loaded up the blogger "Create New Post" screen about once every other day since last Tuesday. Somehow, nothing post-worthy came to mind that wasn't instantly quashed by the Internal Naysayer.
I believe I would like to write more about the Internal Naysayer, because it's probably Important, but I can't bring myself to do it today.
So here's something else, instead: Yesterday Stacey and I went to Best Buy. Stacey got a Johnny Cash CD set she's been wanting. We tried to put it in the CD changer in her Saturn's trunk, but it wouldn't eject the CD magazine. So we took my car to the next place we were going. So far, so good; the CD was about as long as our round-trip, and we heard the whole thing. And then, safely home, my car's (single disc) dash-mounted player refused to eject it. And then it refused to acknowledge it was even in there.
So I brought my car to Best Buy this morning to have the player serviced. I purchased the service plan when I bought the deck, and I successfully located the paperwork, so all was good. Until the guy behind the service desk told me they'd have to ship the deck to some remote service location and I'd be without audio in my car (not to mention that Stacey will be without her new disc) for 2-3 weeks.
I spend an hour and a half in my car every day! I can't be without my car radio, CD player, and iPod jack for that long!
And yet, I will be. Today on the way to work, even though it was really hot, I turned off the A/C and rolled down the windows just so it wouldn't be so damn quiet in my car. I suppose I could buy a cheap pair of battery-powered speakers and put them in the front seat with my iPod, but cheap speakers produce (surprise!) cheap sound. Cheap sound makes me nuts. It would probably be worse than nothing.
(I guess it could be worse. Circuit City shipped my friend Jeremy's finally-repaired Tivo back to him in . . . wait for it . . . Virginia. The problem, of course, being that Jeremy lives here in Los Angeles.)
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