Roland's Birthday

His birthday isn't really for two more days, but Olivia is coming tomorrow for respite, so we all went out today. We usually go out for dinner for his birthday. Coming as it does right after Christmas I have had trouble getting up the energy to celebrate. He does not mind.

For his birthday I gave him my iPod Nano, which I don't use anymore since I got the Zen. Now that sounds like a pretty crummy present, but I spent two days ripping every single comedy CD he owns and putting them on the Nano. I also gave him a "gift certificate" to one audiobook to be purchased on-line. I have a subscription and get a book a month -- I told him he can have my credit for this month. He seems suitably impressed.

Now, here's the part where the joke is on me. I put his comedy CD's on it because he listens to them all the time, and they make me crazy. The first time I found most of them funny. The second time I thought they were cute. Now though I have them memorized, do not think they are all that funny, and want to scream when he plays them. I had imagined that if I put them all on the iPod he would listen with headphones when he was doing stuff in the house.

Um...no such luck.

He was very pleased with the iPod and said, "Wow, I can listen to all these albums in the car!" Sure enough, we came out of the restaurant, climbed into the van, and he found this thingamjig that allows him to attach the iPod to the car stereo via the cassette player. He plugged it in and we listened to comedy routines all the way home.

Sigh.

Happy Birthday, Sweetheart.