At last, I can look my daughter in the eye ....

Back in April, Charlotte spent her birthday money on an 8gb iPod Touch (Or 'Touchpod' as it's known in our house due to Bethany's mispronouncing). It was a bit of a sore point for me, as I'd been iPod-less for awhile after my 4 year old original iPod finally died.

But ... April is bonus month at work and as I have a 4 hour flight coming up plus daily train journies, I decided to spend some of my hard-earned cash on Touchpod for myself - unfortunately for me, Mia didn't share my enthusiasm which meant I was in a bad mood on Saturday.

Now Mia likes a bargain, in fact I'd go so far as to say Mia LOVES a bargain. If we have to make a major pruchase, then I leave the haggling (She prefers the term 'negotiating') to her. It was due to her that we gor £4000 off our car, and my parents got their camcorder for effectively 1/2 price .. Yesterday lunchtime, Mia called me at work to say the O2 shop was selling out their 1st generation Touchpod's for between £90 - £125 depending on hard-drive size, and if I promised to shut up about it then I could have one. I didn't need telling twice.

4 O2 shops later, I finally found a store with 2 in stock - Mia was on the phone to me at the time and decided that for the price it would be stupid for her not to have one as well! So now, we are a 3 Touchpod family ...

Back at work, I found the hack to upgrade the software for free, sent it home for Mia to download and then set about filling up the Touchpod. I did have to take a long hard look at the 21gb of music I have stored on my work PC, as my Touchpod only holds 16gb worth of music - do I really need to have 3gb of Beatles out-takes? And how often do I listen to the 2nd album by Ash? And all of the Stereophonics albums? It's at times like these (Which reminds me, I pared back on the Foo Fighters as well), I like 'Best of' albums.