Today’s activities will include finding out if my Hello Kitty iPod dock will power my iPod while I am using it to feed video to the TV. I charged the iPod last night until it said it was fully charged, we started watching a movie, and 40 minutes into it, the battery was drained completely. I’m pretty sure my silly pink dock will work as hoped, but I won’t know until I try it.

Lin says it’s probably time to change the battery in my iPod, but I don’t use it that much, so I don’t see how it could already not be holding a charge. It is three years old though, so I guess it’s possible. Any iPod owners out there ever replace their own battery? I watched this video on how to change the battery in mine, and it looks easy enough. It seems the most economical way to do it too. After the hassle I went through getting my iMac fixed (which has subsequently broken again), I am not at all keen on letting Apple do anything for me, let alone paying them for the joy of having to deal with them. Besides, they only replace the whole iPod, and I’m actually not so cool with that. Mine is pristine in every way, and I know the only thing that might be wrong with it is the battery needing to be changed. I’d rather keep the one I have, thank you very much.

I think I’ll set my dock up in the living room right now and watch a few podcasts to see what it does to the power level. It would be really awesome if just once the tech in my life worked as I needed it to work. Only getting to watch half a movie at a go would sort of suck.