Zen

Today I bought my Creative Labs Zen Vision: M. It was just over 200 smackaroos. As exciting as purchasing it, I’ve had a very uninteresting time with it so far–it came without a charge on the battery. So, I’ve been charging the thing all night.

Admittedly, I’ve played with it a little tonight. I got it charged up just enough to be able to play around with it for about five minutes, but that’s not near enough time. Tomorrow will be the true test of usefulness.

Why did I get it you ask? I got it primarily because I wanted rewind and fast forward. I know, that’s a seemingly weird reason, but let me explain. Wanting to listen to multiple sermons in a day I needed a player that could read in mp3 format, so I bought a CD mp3 player. It works fine, but I quickly realized that it didn’t have a rewind or fast forward built in. Sermons are about a half hour to forty five minutes. Sometimes, I can’t finish one in a single sitting or I miss something and want to hear it again, but I can’t rewind to hear it again and I can’t simply restart a sermon and fast forward to where I left off.

This dilemma led Maggie to the decision that she should get me an iPod style mp3 player for our anniversary. Unfortunately, she didn’t know enough about them to pick one out that I liked, so she told me her plan and said, “Buy what you want.” This led to a significant amount of research and eventually the decision to buy the strongest (in my opinion) of the players. I purchased the Zen. Now I have to determine which music service to use. If you have suggestions, I’m interested. Leave some comments.