Big Dan's Corner

I’ve been a busy bee this morning. I woke up about 8 AM which is normally the time I’m going to bed. When I woke up it was freezing, I shut the windows and blasted the heat for a little bit. First day of the winter of 08 as far as I’m concerned even though it’s not fall yet.

Been doing some work on my music collection this past week. Found a little program called FixTunes which downloads song information from the internet along with album art then corrects the tags. I found a coupon code that the made the purchase only $10. I found out later that there’s free programs that do the same thing but FixTunes worked really well it got about 80% of my songs right. The job or retagging my music went from about 12 hours to roughly 2.. For $10 it was well worth it.

Also on the music front, I got this little MP3 player from woot a couple of weeks ago. It’s a Sansa Clip here’s the link: http://www.woot.com/Blog/ViewEntry.aspx?Id=5759. I just finally got around to putting music on it. For a small player it’s pretty nice at only 2 GB it holds just enough to have a decent selection when I walk but not have a hard time finding songs. I plan to use it for walking and stuff like that. My other MP3 Player, a Creative Zen 4GB is nice but it’s bulky and not very easy to navigate. It’s also pretty expensive and I’d rather not risk dropping it while on my walk plus the cold cannot be good for it. This smaller one is cheap enough where if the cold ruins it, it’s not that big of a loss.

Earlier this week I also ordered a Sansa Express 1 GB MP3 player for mom as she wants a little music player. I just got an email from Woot saying they “really want to get rid of them” so they’re sending me two. Awesome! Everyone loves free stuff, me included. :p However, the seller “really wanting to get rid of them” makes you one about the quality of the product. Well it’s cheap enough anyway, I may use the extra one as a spare.

This afternoon I got a doctors appointment. Get this their making me come in early because my usual appointment time of 4:30 is now reserved for kids to come in after school. Now don’t get me wrong, I understand the reasoning of setting aside time after school for the kids but I’ve had a standing 4:30 for a good month. The reason why I go at 4:30 is because the office closes at 5 and the docs like getting out on time a 4:30 appointment insures I’ll be out of there pretty fast; as this office has a walk in policy which is BS if you ask me. I have an appointment you see me first not some idiot who cannot figure out that you need to schdeule and appointmet to see the doctor but what do I know..