My shmi-pod brings all the boys to the yard...

Ok, so for my twenty-fifth birthday some very wonderful people purchased me my very first iPod. Kinda sounds like the sort of thing Fisherprice might make. Anyway, receiving this present as a collaborated effort between my parents and Holly, along with all the other prizes she got me (the soundtrack to Wicked, some original recordings of MLK, a gift card to the local Apple store so I could buy a protective case for the shmi-pod, and so on) helped make this birthday, arguably, the best ever. And then after all the prizes and a little Chuck Shaw in the prayer garden we headed back to her house for what I thought would be a night full of cheese, crackers and West Wing. Instead, the was a whole surprise party awaiting me on her back patio. Wow. Anyway, I say all of this in order to kill some time while I download some podcasts (some from the NY Times, The Economist and of course ABC's This Week with my number one political man-crush, and Michael Bluth look-a-like, George Stephanopoulos--though, admittedly, he is still a close second behind Brad Pitt; there is just something about that chiseled jaw structure). Aren't these weekly-updated little bits of news, etc the greatest thing in the world (yes, of course, not as great as the salvific atonement our Lord Jesus Christ apportioned for all of humanity upon the cross at Calvary and then by raising from the dead three short days later, but then again I thought that might be a given by now--it has been our sub-context for nearly two millennia). Well, it looks as though i am finished downloading. Hope you all have a great day. Bye Bye.