I have some serious questions about the Ipod and how it shuffles songs

Maybe I am the only one that thinks the shuffle feature on the ipod isn't as random as I'd like it to be. I have 13,000 songs on my ipod and I should RARELY hear 2 songs from the same artist within 10 songs of each other, but it seems to happen all the time.

Anyone else notice this?

Does anyone else wonder this?

So when I am running, or walking, or driving, or hanging out on a bench in the mall, I see 'elderly', or 'old people' with modern technology - like an Iphone, Ipod, Blackberry, etc. and I wonder what motivated them to embrace technology and then furthermore, what songs are on their ipods and if they needed help figuring out how to take music off those vinyl albums and get them on their devices. (I hear the conversion is a bitch)

Surely I can't be the only one that wonders these things. I am also an advocate of driving tests after age 65. Maybe I am just a prick, but I kind of don't think I am alone on this topic.

Since I'm still paying for this URL, I figured I might as well use it.

So, it’s pretty easy to get busy or uncreative. I would say I’ve done a good job at both lately, but I’m going to give this thing a go again. The idea here is to provide good material that others will care about reading, right? Easier said than done. I could go on and on and on about how the grass grows in front of my place or I could document paint drying. I don’t even need to paint anything. But I would do it for you, the people of blogland. The problem is that I don’t think you’d really care about that all too much, and in reality, bad content is worse than no content. Maybe mom did know what she was talking about when she told me that 'if I didn't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all'?

Do people really want to read about my daily runs, and how mundane they are? Well, I don't think they are mundane, but I don't see how they are interesting to anybody else but me. So we'll see. Knoxville is really an interesting place and I have run in some interesting places and have seen some interesting (and probably not legal…) things while running and that’s the kind of thing I’d like to write about. That’s my pledge to you, the people of the blogosphere. It’s like a campaign promise, so I guess that means I don’t need to keep it. Bonus. As the URL suggests, this is and will continue to be a running blog. I think that focus is going to become a looser and looser interpretation of the majority of the content put into this blog, but I figure since the name of the friggen thing is ‘Knoxville Running’ I should probably talk about Knoxville and Running. Not in that order necessarily either.

I do enjoy running, quite a bit to be honest. I feel like lately I’ve met a lot of people through one thing or another and most people that ‘know’ me don’t know everything. Some people only know me as a runner, some people only know me as a Media Professional, and others only know me as an asshole. My goal here is to really get out there that I am a running media professional asshole. If I'm not getting that across effectively, that is what the comments are for. I am going to use this as my soapbox and personal space to speak my mind, so if people read it (and they will, this thing is pretty awesome already) they can know more about me without having to actually talking to me ever (oh, the joys of modern technology). I’m kind of kidding on most of this stuff, but if there is truth in everything that is said, than I must mean some of it. That’s deep (that’s what she said)

I’ve run 3 marathons and plan to run more, hopefully #4 will be this fall. Running has some obvious health benefits, such as stress relief, muscle growth and allowing me the privilege of eating Taco Bell 3 times a day. That last one was a joke. Kinda. As long as my body allows, I will be a runner. You can join me in this running endeavor if you are so inclined, find me on facebook and we’ll make it happen. Running in groups is always better than running alone.

Still trying to figure out exactly why I run marathons. It's a big commitment and it's not easy, but I love the challenge. I think I just figured out why I run marathons. (I’m not going to delete that previous sentence; this blog has an ‘Open Door’ policy.) A couple years ago I got back into running because I do enjoy it and it lets me eat whatever I want (especially Taco Bell multiple times a day. Am I kidding? You’ll never know….) More to come. Maybe. Tomorrow? It’s a date.