Barker’s Barkings.

Today, I was about to get on the bus with my book, and my MP3 player, as I usually do.

I hit power on, and I soon expected the sounds of Motion City Soundtrack or Idlewild to fill my ears.

4 minutes later, with my headphones on, nothing was happening. No sound. Quiet in my ears that could of filled a void.

This worried me, maybe I forgot to hit play (but the player always plays when it starts.. so whats going on?) I look down at my mp3 player.. and :(, I have four options:

1. Clean up.
2. Format All.
3. Reload OS.
4. Reboot.

Ok, being a technerd, I try Door #4. Thinking a nice solid reboot will bring the brains back into it, and will allow me to enjoy some serious tunage, but.. again:

1. Clean up.
2. Format All.
3. Reload OS.
4. Reboot.

Quoth the Mp3 player.

Ok, fine. Door #1 please. *Wait 10 minutes..* Hard drive doesn’t feel like its spinning. *Power Mp3 player off.* .. Restart.

1. Clean up.
2. Format All.
3. Reload OS.
4. Reboot.

Quoth the Mp3 player.

Ok, FINE… Door #2.

Yay… Nothing happens. Reboot the player again.

1. Clean up.
2. Format All.
3. Reload OS.
4. Reboot.

Quoth the Mp3 player.

Finally.. I break down and try Door #3. (My last resort.)

Thats when it pops up.

‘HardDisk Error.’

Cue Darth Vader-esq ‘No!!!!’ on my part, cuing in to those around me I’m even more of a nerd than my book lets on.

After that.. I power it off.

I take off my headphones, and power it off, then repower it on with it next to my ears. My poor little Mp3 player sounds like it’s trying to grate steel cheese.

So long Nomad Jukebox Zen 40 gig player that I got for christmas one year. I loved ye like you were part of my own kin….

The next thing I’m left questioning is how this happened because I always left my player safe, plugged in and everything on top of my computer desk when I’m not using it..

*Sigh.*

-A.

Someone still reads it.

Surprise enough to me for me to continue to write in it.

Today really didn’t have anything eventful happen other than the fact that I worked and I had a lady with her husband in my store with a kid on what appeared to be a kid tethered to what was a leash. Yeah, you read that right. A leash, for kids.

Thanks to the amazing invention called Google Images, I’ve been able to find one of these… things.

I mean seriously, who thought this thing up? Is this for the kid who wants to run as free as a bird and then come screeching to the end of their road? Or the parent who doesn’t want to touch their child for fear that holding their hand would crush their poor little bones?

I don’t know.

Why don’t we come up with electric collars for our kids..

Ah yes.. kids get to close to the edge of the store…

One button push: ZAP.

Little Johnny and Suzi would never stray far from mommy and daddy ever again…. and if they did? You guessed it..

One button push: ZAP.

Please note to the concerned: I like technology, and I’m not saying we should electrocute our kids or anything, but its truthfully as bad as the cloth collar.

Part of being a parent, is realizing where your kids are at all times, and this … collar, enables little George to go destroy some part of the store/whatever within a reasonable distance, because it’s more contained, the destruction will be greater.. (as was the case today)..

I think I know one way how to sum up the destruction: Tornado in a trailer park.

Kid = Tornado Games and Accessories = Trailers, Our store = The park.

Enough said? I think so.

Oh well.

-A.