My slimp3 player has now played 65 songs in a row without breaking. Did I really fix it? I know I'm jinxing it and it will be staring at me blinking in the living room by the time I'm done writing this. But maybe not this time.

Imagine you're 7 years old and your parents buy you the shiniest blue Schwinn bike you've ever seen. You can't wait to ride it up and down the street everynight until dinnertime. Here it is in front of you with a big gold bow on the...what the?...it has no handlebars. I can't ride it! But still, it's so shiny and you want to ride it. So you ride it anyway.

See?