My iPod classic is one of the technology tools that enriches my life the most. I have thousands and thousands of dollars worth of gadgets but the iPod gets the most use. It’s my traveling companion. It reads my audiobooks on my long commute. It plays my Free Talk Live and Dan Carlin. By the way, Dan Carlin has two of the best podcast shows I’ve ever heard, Common Sense and Hardcore History. If you check him out and you like him, give him a couple bucks. Totally worth it.
When my iPod doesn’t work right (which hasn’t happened until this morning) I get a very off kilter feeling. What am I supposed to do on the hour plus drive? I usually listen to the first half of Free Talk Live and then hit the second half on my way home. This morning, I couldn’t do that because my iPod was locked up. I took it off hold and it just stayed on hold.
This particular iPod has been gold. I was once running on a treadmill when I accidentally jerked it off the ledge it was sitting on. The iPod flew across the room and just kept playing without missing a beat. This morning, however, it wouldn’t respond to my commands to download my podcast. Plugging it in had no effect. I had no idea what to do and I was running late for work. iPods, in case you’ve never owned one, have no obvious reset button.
Long story short, I left for work in a bad mood, without my podcast. I was forced to listen to Wall Street Journal on my XM Radio. When I got to work, I was in the doldrums, thinking I would be shelling out for a new iPod. I was wrong. An iPod classic can be reset. In my case, that cleared up the issue. My audiobooks, movies, music collection and massive set of podcasts is once again available for me to have eargasms.