Work yet to do

[susandennis]

I started going to the gym to get some stamina back.  I could, when energy permitted, get into the car and drive to a grocery store and push a cart around but about half way through I'd always feel like I needed to sit down and put my feet up for an hour or so.

Well, it's working.  I'm getting some back.  Actually, a lot for only 3 weeks work.  I got into the car and went to two grocery stores and a drug store and radio shack.  And then I hit the wall but that's about four times more than I could have done three weeks ago.  I'm gratified.

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I got a refurbished Creative Zen V Plus MP3 player last week.  I'm not unhappy with my little $30 Apacer but I just needed/wanted more - like bookmarks for book reading and a better user interface.  I'm really happy with it.  It does just what I wanted it to plus more.

This morning I remembered the e-audio books from the library.  They won't work on the Apacer but the Zen is one of the approved devices.  So I downloaded it - a painless 5 minute process to download and transfer the whole damn book.  I listen to the first three chapters while I was out running errands.  Way very way ultra way cool.

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Now I think I'll go put my feet up for a bit.

Comments

[kayseaconklin.livejournal.com]

Hi Susan --

I'm wondering where you found the refurbished MP3 player. I'd like to find exactly the same thing, and save some money while I'm doing it.

Oh, and you said a while back that you were going to be purchasing new speakers for your computer. Any luck on that quest? (If that's an old topic, please forgive... I was traveling and missed more than a week's worth of stuff.)

Thanks!

[susandennis]

Tech4Less. I love these guys. They have good prices but I know from experience that they stand behind everything solidly. They will take anything back for any reason. Easily and painlessly. So I always feel really comfortable ordering anything from them and I do.

Here are their current MP3 players. I got the refurbished one of these. It came with everything - earplugs, another plug that I don't know what it's for, the USB cable, manual and software. (And, I ordered it on Tuesday and got it on Friday.)

For speakers, I ended up buying one that just hangs from the Dell monitor that I got (so I could have two). It's fine by me.

[kayseaconklin.livejournal.com]

Fabulous! Thanks -- I ordered the factory refurbished player, and it's on its way. Whoo-Hoo!!