All-American Rejects
I have really settled into my home office more than I have in a long time. Years ago, long before telecommuting was even mentioned in the employee benefits of most companies, I had the opportunity to work from home about 80% for a whole summer. Some might argue that working from home in the summer is just an excuse for playing hooky but I really find it easy to work from home - perhaps too easy (I find I hit the computer earlier in the morning and late at night).
Anyway, I’ve been telecommuting 100% of the time for about 5 months now (my first business travel in that time is tomorrow to DC for a customer meeting). Until recently, when I setup my new home office, I had a very functional but otherwise unappealing work solution. I had a good desk and chair, two printers (one multi-function and one laser printer) second monitor, extensive wireless solution (with an ever growing security solution) multi-burner and other peripherals. All very well but not very much to cater to the human side of the equation.
I’ve now got my iYiYi to play my iPod and I listen to music about half the day (the other half is either conference calls or other distractions.
So, what does this have to do with the “All-American Rejects”? Well, around Christmas, a friend gave me a CD of this band. I ripped to my computer and sometime later it got stuffed onto the iPod. From time to time, one of the songs would surface in the shuffle. I went out their other CD (only found one so if there are more, please let me know). So more of their music popped up thru the course of the iPod shuffle. I’ve enjoyed the “fresh” sound relative to a lot of what shuffles by.
check them out if you care !
