A keen sense of the obvious...

[susandennis]

I tried to upload the zip files of the books a million different ways to three different hosts and two 'cloud' accounts and hit a wall every time.  Then I realized I should just dump the goods onto DVD's and mail 'em!  My brother's in no hurry.   He'd rather have the mp3 files in folders rather than zipped up anyway.  So I start to burn to DVD's.  I've never done much, if any burning to DVD's before and my first 10 efforts blew. 

Finally I remembered Google and quickly discovered that my problem was the rate.  I dropped it down to 2x and Bob turned into my uncle.  Whew.  I was able to get 18 books and about 34 hours of This American Life onto 3 DVD's.  Plus, Tuesday is his birthday so I grabbed a card packaged it all up, stamped it and I'll drop it into the mail box tomorrow morning on the way to the gym. 

I spent all day making that little project as complicated as I possibly could.