Newfangled

For Christmas I was given an i-pod shuffle. If you don't know what that is, it's a silver paperclip that stores 250 of your favorite songs. I think it might be an MP3 player but I'm not sure. Anyway, it's brilliant for using in the gym.

To load my music onto it I had to go onto i-tunes, which is a sort of website, I think, but also somewhere we stored all of our CDs before we transferred them to Darren's i-pod (which I had nothing to do with). Actually I'm a bit confused about what i-tunes is.

Have you been on i-tunes? It's like a shop, but you can also buy audiobooks and download podcasts, which are free. I think I can pay with Paypal if I can remember my password. There were some audiobooks that looked great but I didn't download them because I'm not sure whether you can put audiobooks onto the i-pod shuffle and I'm scared I might break it if I try.

And anyway, audiobooks aren't much good on the treadmill.

I feel tired even thinking about all of this. I just want music through my headphones, something that won't fall off me in the (unlikely) event I do any running. Now I know how my Nan felt when the Walkman was invented.

Thank God I don't belong to the i-pod generation. Generation X suits me fine.