The iPod I got from my uncle via my grandmother's rejection of it suddenly stopped working. It is, the service people say, unsalvageable. It's funny how many times a person can drop an object and have it work, then it suddenly experiences seemingly unprovoked catastrophic failure. Anyway, on the occasion of my trip to the iPod repair shop I took A's ex's 80GB 5th gen "classic" iPod too. They replaced the battery i hula. Good music. I want to resync the podcast directory, but I feel that would be an imposition. Then again, it was abandoned ~2 years ago. Probably I can not worry and just have my way with it.