I was just about to leave to pick up a friend from the airport last night when I thought I would load up a couple of songs on my mp3 player so I had some new music to listen to as I drove. As I was trying to turn it on, the light on the power switch would only blink three times and the lcd would turn on, not a very good sign. Creative seems to have taken off most of its tech support for the "Touch" since it is old (not to be confused with the iPod Touch). Anyways, trying to reset the player didn't do much, so I think my options are limited. It seems so weird knowing that it seemed to have no problems the last time I used it, but I guess things can change.

The problem now is that I am not sure that I was ready to pick up another mp3 player yet. The new Zune 80 isn't really what I want it to be (no Audible support) and the 16GB version of the iPod Touch is not exactly cheap and there are features that I would like on it that it doesn't have for that price such as Flash support in Safari as well as a camera. I was thinking that it would otherwise have been great for uploading quick shots while traveling onto this blog. What's worse is that I can't just transfer photos from my camera to the iPod, eliminating my other hope that I could possibly have left my laptop at home while traveling to Sweden, that doesn't seem quite as likely now, I want to be able to post things while on the trip.

The problem is that I really "need" some sort of mp3 player for a trip to Europe, a 16 hour flight across the Atlantic is not something that is overly enjoyable (at least I can't imagine it will be) and I can only take the drone of an airplane's engine for so long. I'll keep my blog updated on which mp3 players I'm looking at.

-Trevor

P.S. I thought I would insert a sneak peek about an upcoming post, I shaved my beard (it seems to be a large topic of discussion in Tucson, I don't know if anyone will care outside of it...)