… and a cat who used up at least one of his nine lives…
I woke up this morning, dreaming of the trip (as usual), hauled myself out of bed for an early morning meeting and stopped dead in my tracks. There, in the middle of my bedroom floor, was the lanyard for my iPod. Of course, it was no longer attached to the iPod… and the iPod was nowhere to be found.
Now I love my cats. They’re actually still catlings — not yet a year old (though Clancy is closing in fast). But they have GOT to keep their cotton-pickin’ little paws off my iPod. You see, I have this grand idea of recording the sounds of Africa as well as the sights. And my iPod — a second generation Nano — is one of only two ever made with really high quality sound recording capabilities. And there’s this handy little Griffin iTalk pro microphone you can use to record sound with which you then use in iTunes to turn your recordings into WAV files. Well, of course, I just had to buy it for the trip.
And there I was, this morning, with a microphone and no iPod and two furry suspects. I had to dash off for this meeting, but started turning the house upside down again tonight when I got home. No iPod here, no iPod there, and still two furry suspects (more likely Clancy than Ciara — it’s his style). I went online and found that getting a second generation Nano now would set me back a very large sum of money — the cheapest refurb I could find was well over $100 and the only new one I could find was well over $200. (I could get a brand new Nano with more capacity for less money, but not the high quality sound recording capability.)
After a good deal of effort and a great deal of whining, and an enormous number of threats against the life of at least one cat, the iPod turned up under the radiator in the dining room. It still works, the microphone works very well, and the cats have been reprieved… At least for now…