{"id":12326,"date":"2008-05-29T09:30:54","date_gmt":"2008-05-29T16:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2008\/05\/29\/audio-entertainment.html"},"modified":"2008-05-29T09:30:54","modified_gmt":"2008-05-29T16:30:54","slug":"audio_entertainment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/05\/29\/audio_entertainment.html","title":{"rendered":"Audio entertainment"},"content":{"rendered":"

While the office move from Golden to Downtown is hardly earth-shattering in its implications (my job remains identical, and for anyone I work with the only change will be my land line number), it’s having all sorts of little “gotchas”<\/a> for my life. Net net still quite positive, but the whole commuting by rail to a different location thing is a little more complicated than I’d thought.<\/p>\n

The one that came to mind this morning, as I was talking about KCFR’s move to FM<\/a> in early July, was my commuting listening habits. I usually get about 40 minutes of drive-time listening to NPR each workday — and when that fails (Pledge Week! Gah!) I have my audiobooks to keep me amused (currently listening to a nice one on the Glorious Revolution).<\/p>\n

Now, just because I’m not commuting in my car each day to the office doesn’t mean I’ll be radio-less. I’ll have the drive to\/from the station, driving to Katherine’s school to pick her up, driving to karate class, etc. — but net-net, that’s a big drop in my information factor (and non-fiction “reading”).<\/p>\n

Of course, I can also do the iPod thing, or some other portable entertainment device (both for music and for — less pleasantly — downloading audiobooks). There are a few complications there (if I’m going to use something other than Margie’s iPod, I have to deal with registering multiple devices to iTunes). But if I want to listen to the radio, I’ll need to do something else.<\/p>\n

Of course, I can also “just” read a book, which was the general plan, or check my Crackberry mail. But it would be nice to have the other options. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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