The latest thing

For Christmas my brother, sister-in-law, and I got my mom an iPod.

This was the best gift ever.

She's downloaded a gig of songs (it's a 4G Nano); she wears it around the house, all the time, and when my dad talks to her she can't hear him.

The day after she got the iPod, she started messing with it, set up her iTunes, and then promptly went and bought five CDs to download.

"CDs!" said my cousin Val when I told her. "That's so cute!"

Ah, CDs. Those quaint things that grandmothers use.