it’s part of growing up, learning to choose how we spend our time.  my oldest is having to decide on a couple of things today and he’s not happy with me for making him choose… but i know it’s the right thing, i know he will grow from it.  and i’m pretty sure he’ll blame me when he has to explain to people that he can’t do something.  lol.

i’m trying to decide whether to buy a new mp3 player or not.  i cleared off my old one and then when i went to put stuff on it i was told i was out of “sync rights”, so i guess the songs i bought i’ve lost?  i don’t understand how this all works.  i’m liking those new rainbow colors of ipod nanos but don’t know enough to decide if i want it yet.  i heard that the zune requires you to keep an active card that costs $15/month as far as i can tell and i don’t like that - i just want to buy a song, own it forever!  i guess there is so much fraud that these policies have become needed… it’s sad.

i remember reading an interview with tom petty and he talked about how he works on an album, getting the song sequencing just right and then wonders why he bothers because we’re all a bunch of button pushers anyway.  he sure has a point - i would listen to an album start to finish when i bought it.  i wanted to hear it as a whole work of art.  i still do that.  but now once i’ve done that i become a button pusher, but i like more than the “hits” because i’ve listened to them all.  on vinyl it was a pain to move the needle and with cassettes it was hard to find the end of the song.  but once cd’s came along, you could pick exactly what song you wanted to listen to and not listen to the rest and with mp3’s you just buy the one song and not ever even bother with the rest.  that’s kind of sad, too.

okay, i got way off on a tangent!  i definitely need more research on this mp3 thing.