My Ipod Classic died...

 

...may she rest in peace.

Bless her little scratched-up face.

(I've dropped her on concrete or in the road so many times.)

My Ipod Classic died after many, many years of faithful service.  We have been through a lot together, good times and bad times.  She has kept me company on my daily walks for miles and miles and miles.  She's kept me occupied with happy podcasts, books, or music while I do my "house blessing" each week.  

She talked to me while I planted the garden in the spring and raked leaves in the fall. She was always in my apron pocket when I was peeling and canning summer vegetables.  She was cheering me on while I made jelly.  I never got bored with any of my kitchen chores when she was in my pocket.

She was with me way back when I still had children at home and I would listen to her as I waited for piano lessons or soccer practices to be  over.

She even went with me to the surgery center when my sweet hubby was having a little minor surgery years ago.  She kept me company there and consoled me.

She calmed me down when I've been anxious, woke me up when I was sleepy, and wound me down when I was wired but tired.

I miss her and grieve her passing, but life must go on, so my search began for her replacement.  I'm not replacing her with another IPOD because ITunes and Windows 10 battle in my computer and I am always the loser.

You know what I found out while searching for a new MP3 player?  They have evidently gone the route of land-line phones, wrist watches and Richard Simmons work out tapes.  And of the ones available, there doesn't seem to be any "middle-of-the-road" models.  Meaning, they are very inexpensive (cheap) or very, very expensive.  And I usually go for middle-of-the-road everything.  Hey I practically live in the middle of the road.

I want a player that I can load my old Blog Talk Radio podcasts on, my audio books that I borrow (for free) from my library's online source, and yeah, a little music.  

I guess everybody just puts everything on their smart phones and goes their merry way.  But guess what?  You guessed it, I don't have a smart phone.  I had one, but didn't like it.  I don't need it.  Nobody gets a cell phone signal at our "house in the country" anyway, so I'll keep my little granny Tracfone for emergencies.  I'm so not a phone person.  To me, one of the best things about going camping was leaving the phone behind.  But we gave up our landline (the same phone number we'd had for 38 years!), and got an internet phone about a year ago.  So guess what?  Hubby now takes it camping with us!

Anyway, back to the Mp3 player.  I bought one little cheapo and it was horrible.  It did ugly things to my perfect little playlists I had on my old Classic IPOD.  Well, not to those specifically, they died with her.  I didn't have everything backed up that was on her, so some of my purchased books are gone for good too.

So, that new player has died already, and it's only three days old! What!?  I'm so sending that stinker back.  I've ordered another one.  (I hope Amazon doesn't mind that I borrowed her picture from them.)

Yeah, she's a cheap-o too, like $25, so I don't have a lot of expectations for her, but maybe she'll get me by until I find the perfect replacement to keep me company for many happy years to come.  And hey, she's pink!

What about you?  Do you listen to audio books, podcasts, whatever, on a MP3 player?  If you have a recommendation, I'd love to hear it.  I really want one with "bookmarks" to keep my place when I have to stop in the middle of a chapter.  Little pink lady above, is advertised as having them.  We shall see.

Post linked to Pink Saturday.