Another Tuesday, another random post of randomness.
I am a few pages in to 1Q84 Book Two.
Yesterday was International Pie Day but I didn’t make a pie. Shocker?! I just wasn’t feelin’ it. And I have almost a full 9×13 pan of cheesecake sopapillas sitting in the fridge. This delectable dessert is made of 2 blocks of cream cheese, a stick of butter, 1 1/2 cups sugar and 2 packages of crescent rolls. I really don’t want to be the only person in the house eating that AND a pie.
I’ll make a pie on PI DAY, March 14. (I hope anyway.)
Now for the whining.
Last week, under fabulous advice from some of my Tweet-Friends who love audio books, I was inspired to purchase a Creative Labs ZEN Mosaic EZ100. I bought the refurbished one advertised for about half off the *NEW* retail price which unfortunately means that I don’t have any guide books included and I can’t find any serial or models numbers so I am having difficulty with registering the product and getting into the website. I know I’m whining and frustrated and good things do not come of poor attitudes like the one I’m exhibiting but I don’t know quite what to do. I’m tempted to take the thing down to BestBuy under the guise of buying a charger but hoping I can get a live person to show me which buttons to push to make the thing work.
Let me back up a day or two further… I had on my New Year’s Goals to FIND my husband’s MP3 player so that I can make my wish of listening to books come true and I did! I found it! It’s a SONY and more than a few years old.
So, I followed the enticing ads to subscribe to Audible.com and get my free book. I selected BossyPants by Tina Fey.
And being stupid and assuming that all mp3 players play audio books, I plugged the thing in and attempted to move my new audiobook to my player. NOPE. Incompatible. Sony doesn’t like to play with others. So now I have a book I can’t listen to unless I play it on my Mac which totally defeats what I want to do which is walk the dogs or mow the lawn.
That’s when I went on to Twitter to seek advice.
Thus the *new* mp3 player from Creative. I got it to charge. YAY. That worked fine. I dropped/dragged BossyPants to it. YAY. I see it! It’s there! I work the menu to select and hit play.
Nothing.
It says NOW PLAYING in the upper right hand corner. It shows a progress bar across the bottom. It even has the scary pic of Tina with the big hands in the background. Nothin’. Rather than a green arrow, I see an orange square. And that’s it. I don’t know what else to do.
I downloaded the Guide book from the website but I don’t think they had a Mac option – it’s just garbled mess. [FIRST CLUE? or do I need a shovel slammed to my head.]
I am waiting for an email from Creative but it took so long for it to be accepted without serial and model numbers in the form that I don’t know what canned “we-can’t-help-you-without-proper-documentation’ response I might get.
Do you know anyone with a ZEN Mozaic EZ100? or do I just find a middle school kid and have them figure it out? Help?
oh hell. I give up. Just going to send it back and buy an iPod. I just saw in the Forums that the Zen and Macs don’t play well together. Why did I assume that this should be easy?
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