The Burlingames

I’ve been struggling lately with which music player buy. I eliminated the iPod right away as I’m not an iTunes fan and, amazingly, none of the current iPods match the specs that I’m looking for. My requirements are:

• must be flash-based
• minimum 16gb of storage (has to hold all my tunes)
• can’t be ridiculously expensive (iPod Touch is cool, but wicked expensive)

The two I’ve been trying to decide between are the new Creative Zen and Sansa View (both 16gb). Both have expandable storage and great battery life (the View is rated at 36 hours for music playback). The extra features (radio, eq, video) are also pretty comparable. The big difference right now is price. The Zen is $250 and the View is $176. In all likelihood, that will be enough to steer me toward the View. However, I have a tendency to be indecisive about things like this and will likely change my mind about ten times between now and when I actually have the money to purchase a player. We’ll see what happens.

Thank you so much for coming and checking out our blog. Our/my goal is update this on a fairly regular basis to keep all of our friends and family updated on our wonderful lives. :) I have already posted ‘our story’, this can be found at the top of the page – enjoy the story. Eventually we will have more pictures to post and more exciting news/information for you to read.

The latest with us…Dave has started his new job at FedEx and is busy with the training portion of it right now. So far he really likes it and is anxious to learn more about the company and start driving a truck. I am still busy teaching and driving many miles a day. I do love my job, even though I may complain about all the driving.

We will be heading up to Detroit Lakes, MN to spend Thanksgiving with Dave’s side of the family. It should be a wonderfully relaxing time with lots and lots and lots and lots of fun. I’m looking forward to it though. Mostly I’m looking forward to a vacation from school.

Have a very wonderful Thanksgiving!!!!