07/27/2003 Archived Entry: "The Ecstasy of Technology"

I bought a 15GB iPod for my brother, who is currently serving with the 101st Airborne in Iraq. He's spending his days and nights in Mosul right now, and was part of the perimeter cordon during the assault on Uday & Qusay's hideout. The news that the 101st will be in Iraq until March of next year is not sitting well at all with any of the troops, because that will make for a thirteen month deployment.

With that in mind, my brother has begged for CDs or books or movies or anything to pass the time. Hence, the iPod. I snagged it from CompUSA this afternoon and I've thrown about 1,700 songs--my entire mp3 library, modest as it is--onto the thing. I plan on asking Massurah next week if I can come over and leech some more off of him, since he's got about ten times the amount of music that I have. I figure that filling up a 15GB iPod ought to provide enough music to keep my bro occupied for a few months, at least!

I miss him. I hope he gets out of this shit without getting hurt.

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