Short Work Week

With Monday and Tuesday off it makes for a short work week.  It has become impossible to write this blog from the hotel as I cannot get a reliable connection.  Sometimes with  a little luck I can get email if they are short but most of the time no way.

Last night my old tape player finally gave up the ghost and started chewing up tapes – expensive store bought tapes.  I straightened them out and wound past the newly made bad spots and it chewed it up again and again.  Three times is enough so off to Meijers I go to buy a portable CD player – the cheapest they had was $19.99 so I bought it.  I saw a less expensive unit in Indiana but I did not run all over town at 2000 hrs (before dinner) looking for the cheapest price.

So anyway I do the CD that I had just ripped the night before using Windows Media Player.  I burned it at the highest sample rate and it sounded great.  I was somewhat surprised.  I think the rate was 192Kbps.  the ear buds from the tape player sounded good so I will continue with them.  I don’t like the foam feeling against my ears.  I think I will leave the foam headset at work for the webinars. 

I ate at the old standby Brauns and had the Sizzler  which was so so (well done on the thin end and medium well on the thick end).  Back at the hotel I just decided to read a bit and lights out just before 2200 hrs.