We got a new (to us) minivan last weekend. I'm kinda sad. I mean, we got a good deal, and it's a nice minivan. A really nice minivan. The nicest car I've ever had. It has leather seats. It has seat warmers. It has power everything. If I can figure it out, it has a hands free phone thingy. I haven't found the button that blows your nose for you, but I'm pretty sure it's there.
What this car doesn't have is a tape deck. We've been listening to Joy Hakim's "The History of US" on tape from the library. We're only on book 4. Do you see my problem? Hint - there's 11 books in the series. (Well, 10 books and a whole book of appendices) We're not done yet and the only tape player I own is in the old minivan whose hind end can not take one more blow. Seeing as how I like the kids who ride in the back of said crippled minivan, I can not in good conscience drive it just so we can finish listening to this series. (Can I?)
The new car does have a CD player, but the library doesn't have this on CD. I can't find it on the internet on CD. Grr.... But wait. The library does have an e-resource - netLibrary. The car does have an auxilary jack that will accept a music player....
And so again life as we know it, or at least my happiness, is saved by the awesome powers of the internet and the WorldWideWeb.
Find Joy. Seek Truth. Be Kind.
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I had to laugh at this one. When I bought our new car (back in 2005) I specificaly asked for it to have a tape deck, CD player and NO DVD player. The salesman thought that I was a bit nuts and said that I could drive a car home today if I just wanted a CD player and a DVD player. I told him I would wait.
Our library has pretty much converted over to CDs now so I have not had to use the tape player in quite awhile, but it was very handy for awhile. As a birthday present a couple of years back, I had them install a way to directly connect my ipod to the stereo. Best addition as we listen to tons of books on my iphone...
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