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Before I start today's entry: Happy Birthday Max! 
I have a new toy.
[No, put your dirty minds away, not like that.]
See, there's only one fault with my beautiful little car, Priscilla:
Priscilla, yesterday.
She was made in that short period of time between when they stopped putting tape players in cars, and when they put sockets in them to plug your mp3 player in. As such, I've been able to carry around 30Gb's worth of music but I haven't been able to play it1, and her insides are strewn with CD envelopes.
No longer. I noticed earlier today a little dooberythingygadget on sale for twenty of your Earth pounds sterling;
a dooberythingygadget, yesterday.
This takes the output from your player and transmits it very locally on an FM radio frequency, thereby making all that happy family-friendly music2 playable in my car without having to burn it onto two hundred bits of round metal.
It'll have other uses too. Take situations like the cafe in Beccles where they insist on playing the local pile-of-shite-FM-station, Beach. All I have to do is surreptitiously sneak the player and gadget within ten feet of the radio, turn the dooberythingygadget to the correct frequency, and voila! – instead of the same repetitive crap over and over again, they'll get something like Die, Die My Darling at full blast.
a somewhat "rocking" single cover, yesterday.
Alternatively, one could lurk outside the Archers Addicts annual meeting just on a weekday at 7pm, and then just as the theme music was starting up…
"IF YOU LIKE TO GAMBLE, I TELL YOU I'M YOUR MAN…"
The above two things are of course illegal in this jurisdiction. I'm sorry if this entry seems slightly warped, but I've been doing froggin' spreadsheet work all day and my brain has melted.
footfetishnotes:1 Except through a set of tinny speakers that makes even the most growlsome of singers sound like they're in a small aluminium box. In Ulan Bator. With a toad shoved down their trachea.
2 This, of course, depends on what your family is like. I'm not sure The Waltons would appreciate it.
June 20th, 2007 at 20:16
Oooo! We bought one of those doo-ma-jiggies for L! (Her car is so old that it doesn't even have a tape player nor a CD player…) Now she can listen to her tunes when she drives!
June 20th, 2007 at 21:56
The pedant in me wants to correct your spelling of Ulan Bator to Ulaan Baatar. Probably because that's how I see it spelled every day, even though I know yours is right as well
. I even spoke to someone there the other day (I love talking to people in random weird places)
Let me know how you get on with the Belkin kit… I've been pondering on one for my car too. I've heard mixed reviews.
June 21st, 2007 at 8:09
Priscilla is so damned cute! Look at 'em adorable big eyes and sweet little smile. D'you ever look at cars and feel like they have faces? Yours has such a cute one.
June 21st, 2007 at 10:08
We've had one for a while, a dooberygadjitthing, cos the tape adaptors kept breaking. We would both kill each other if it wasn't for the gadjit. And when I get a car of my own (hopefully v soon), I'll be buying one straight away, otherwise I'm not playing…!
June 21st, 2007 at 11:02
What a wonderful gadget to have.
June 21st, 2007 at 15:03
(No package received yet?!?)
June 21st, 2007 at 15:16
For a minute I thought you had replaced lovely Pricilla! Glad you just got her a lovely accessory.
June 21st, 2007 at 19:34
I like your other new toy better
June 21st, 2007 at 20:03
We've had one of those for ages. It's a godsend, really is. Miss P is very pretty.