Today I’m doing the fun part of packing. Digital packing. Believe me, my eReader and my iPhone can hold a whole lot more of what I consider the good stuff than my carryon bag! So I’m packing up my in-flight entertainment, and wondering how I ever survived flying before digital books and music.
Oh yes. I slept.
Well, what’s the fun in that I ask you? So instead, I’m bringing enough books and music to last me through a half dozen cross country trips, and hopefully enough battery power to get me there.
Books – somehow I’ve ended up with a mountain of print books in my TBR (and I don’t want to bring any printed books with me), and not as many ebooks. Or so I thought. Then when I was doing that disk clean up a few days ago, I found an entire folder of older ebooks that I had downloaded and Never. Actually. Read. The horror! So I moved them to the Book Library folder, sorted them out, and transferred about 50 of them to my reader. Since most of these were books from 2006 and 2007, I guess I’ll call it brushing up on the backlist reading.
Music – This is harder than the books. I know a dozen books should get me through the trip, no matter what kind of mood I’m in, since once I get to San Francisco I’m not going to have a lot of time to read. But the music has to get me through 5 days. What if I decide I’m in the mood for Queen? Or Enya? Or Concrete Blonde? I’m not hauling my music drive along with me “just in case”, so I’m going to have to make some decisions soon. In the meantime, I’m sorting through 13.6 days worth of music to whittle that down to what will fit on the player. I guess I’ll leave the Christmas music off for starters…
Lunch tomorrow with hubby at Ted’s Montana Grill. I’ve never eaten there before, so it will be a “new” thing for us. Since I’ll be out of town for our 15th wedding anniversary this week, we’re calling it an early celebration. Then by the time we get home, it will be time to start packing up for real.
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Oh God, I can relate!
Before I moved to Philly, I’d go see the fiance there about once a month. I’d load up the PDA with so many eBooks, you’d think I’d be visiting for a couple months versus a week or two.
When I went to Jordan, I had to do a 16 hour train ride to Philly to meet up with the fiance, then from where we took a train to Manhattan because we had to fly out of JFK, where we had a 10+ hour plane ride. I brought like two print books and *tons* of eBooks. Thought, “Oh, wow! I’ll really get through the reading on this trip!” No, I slept. On the train rides. On the plane.
Music is never a problem though. My iPod is a second generation, so it’s only 10 gigs. I rarely add or take anything off it. It just holds my tried and true playlists; stuff that I can always be in the mood to listen to.
Have fun in SF! So jealous of everyone who’s going!
Stephanie Secrest’s last blog post..On Broad Street going home.