Ghetto Supastar

The other night I was driving home and went to switch the file on my USB stick and all the display said was, "Reading....Reading...Reading..."

I knew this was bad. I took the stick out and blew on it a la old Nintendo games thinking maybe dust had gotten in. I put it back in and the same thing happened. I took the stick out and the head unit off and blew on it too, put it back on, blew on the stick again just to be safe, put it back in and still no magic.

When I got home I told Cush what had happened and he said he would buy me a new one and in the meantime we could make a CD.

I tried the CD but with no joy and flipped on the radio. On Hi FM it was some sort of sad 80's easy listening (at 6 PM during the drive home???) and on 90.4 it was just some sort of talking (at 6 PM on the drive home???). Obviously I couldn't handle either. 80's sad rock and boring, monotone talking make me want to do bad things.

If it could have been a switch-a-roo I could have listened to the Hi FM people talking because they don't talk in monotone, but it wasn't to be....

Anyway, I had to play my ace.

I got my phone and turned on the music player and turned the volume up as loud as I could.

It was so ghetto but I was so happy to have my tunes!

The only downside to this, besides not being able to turn it up to a reasonable *car stereo* sound level was that I have tended to put music on my phone that I like but don't necessarily want other people to know I like. Although I did keep reaching to turn up the volume like a muppet about 3 times and each time I said to myself, "oh yeah...broken..."

I usually use my phone as an MP3 player with headphones for walks and the music I put on is music that is just better going right into my head directly rather then other peoples.

Does that make any sense?

Like, when I'm walking with headphones Billy Joel seems like a good idea. Driving in my car, Billy Joel seems like a bad idea, just like Hair by Zen. Now the cat's out of the bag, but I can't help myself.

Speaking of cats....Small Fry and McFluffin are getting along really well. I can't really figure out their relationship. They lick each other, (play?) fight, play in general, and eat together but seem to prefer to sleep seperately. Is it like they're just friends, are they a couple or is it more like brother-sister?

Either way, Small Fry gets to stay because McFluffin LOVES her. I had to put Small Fry in my bedroom with the door shut while I was cleaning out the litter boxes because she tries to "help" me and I just get frustrated, and when I went to open the door to take her out, McFluffin was sitting outside the door wanting to be inside with her. I have never seen him like another cat before.

My only complaints about the kitten are that she scratches the furniture, throws kitty litter everywhere but seems to have fun digging in the box, she meows this hurrendous meow that I literally cannot stand the sound of, she likes to be fed around 4 AM and she likes to eat and play with my hair.

Right so back to the car audio problems, I'm really disappointed with Kenwood, I've only had that stereo a year and a half.

I might go with Pioneer this time. Anyone have any feedback on car audio?