I was feeling all sorts

I was feeling all sorts of motivated about my planned run last night, only to find when I walked out the door that it had started to rain. After briefly contemplating the idea of just running in the rain (which I think can be fun), I had to nix that after seeing a flash of lightning. To the treadmill it was. Sigh. I did 4 miles while watching a rather strange combination of ESPN, the news, and HGTV. I’ve got about 6 weeks to build my mileage to be prepared for the 10-Miler on October 15. I don’t plan to race it; I plan to just run it. But I still have to be ready for that kind of distance.
On Saturday, Jose and I were at Best Buy and I came thiiiiis close to buying an iPod Shuffle for use while working out. It’d be nice to be able to put my songs directly onto my music player, instead of burning them to CD and re-ripping them to get into mp3 format, which is what my current workout player needs. But I managed to hold off, telling myself that I really didn’t need a new workout player when my current one works just fine.
Then yesterday Apple introduced an entirely new iPod Shuffle. It is so tiny and cute and comes with a built-in clip! And now I’m glad I didn’t buy one last Saturday because, well, I simply must have the new one.
Apple’s new releases also included a new version of iTunes, which I downloaded so that I could test out their new movie download feature. I bought Pirates of the Caribbean for $9.99. I haven’t tried it on my iPod yet, but even when sized up to fit my laptop screen, it didn’t look too bad. Technology is crazy, man.