So, today’s my 37th birthday, and lucky me it’s an absolutely georgous day out. So what am I planning to do for the day? Sit around inside working on computers. He he. Story of my life the past 5+ years. I took tomorrow off though and I’m going to go hiking along the coast for half the day.

I finally decided what to get myself for my birthday after much consideration. I ordered up a new MP3 player for myself this morning to replace the Neuros (which I sold off on ebay a few weeks ago for only $5 less than I paid for it). After much consideration I ended up choosing the Rio Cali Sport 256MB. The other models I considered were the Nomad MuVo and the iRiver IFP390T. The main features I wanted in a player were expandable storage and the ability to mount the device as a drive on windows or mac. Unfortunately no one makes such a device so I had to make trade-offs. I discarded Creative because I’m still disgusted with how they treat their customers and with how absolutely crappy their drivers are for their soundcard products. This left me a choice between no expandable storage with the iRiver or no mounting as a drive with the Rio Cali. I chose to go with the expandable storage. I really hope the bundled software for managing the music on the device is better than the stuff that came with the Neuros, or this thing will be up on ebay within a month or so and I’ll be looking for another player again. I’ll post about the player after I’ve had it for a month or so and have a good feel for how well it works.

I’ve also decided to cheat and get myself a couple of gifts – the other one is going to be a basketball hoop to replace the one the contracters pulled down two winters ago. I really miss playing hoops after work and the warm season is soon to be here. I don’t want to have another summer without one.