Top 3 Different Things At The Radio Station
The show went well and I survived the day with only slightly more caffeine intake than usual. Here are a few things that have changed since July 2005.
1. I-Pod hookup. You can now, theoretically, play an entire show from your I-Pod. Some folks probably do but I would feel dishonest doing that, but it certainly came in handy in that I hadn’t burned a couple of the songs to CD and was able to spare a blank. I did learn that you have to watch for the song to end because unlike the CD players, an I-Pod won’t automatically stop when the song is over.
2. New CD players. There was one of these new ones last fill in D-Bad asked me to do but the disc I burned for that show didn’t work (shoulda had an I-Pod then huh?). Now, all 3 of them are new and swank. The new players load like a car cd player, not like the tray on a home player or the cd drive on a computer. Old habits die hard in that instead of just slipping a disc into the cd player (like a car) I still hit ‘eject’ every single dang time I wanted to put a disc in. Evan after figuring out that I didn’t need to eject squat.
3. The air signal is now digital. That means that the LED lights can’t go into the red at all or it distorts (just like your old cassette deck mix tape factory). Also, I quickly found, that there’s something like a 30 second delay. Before I came into the air room I heard Ashley (or ‘Trashley’, her on-air name) signing off but when I got into the air room not only was she not near the microphone and but wasn’t talking at all.
The playlist is here though it’s not streaming what I did.