CAR GET! IPOD GET!
Car is fab, exactly what I was hoping for, a really tight point-and-squirt hot hatch BUT perfectly tame and easy to get along with as a family car. Keep it under 4000rpm and nothing much really happens, did 60 miles on family duties today and it was a very easy car to get along with, cabin is a nice civilised place to be, no problems at all. (There was a slight raising of an eyebrow when Mrs Hearthly clocked that it was a three door and she'd have to climb in the back, but hey ho.)
I reset the computer when I got it and average MPG for the first 100 miles is 36.7mpg, not too shabby at all.
Have only opened it out a few times but it's classic VTEC, up to 4500rpm it's rather tame, 4500-6500rpm things get a lot livelier and then 6500rpm-8500rpm it goes absolutely fucking bananas. (It's had a replacement exhaust put on from the cat backwards, so it sounds pretty sweet too.)
The iPod arrived this morning (as very generously donated by GazChap, and very much appreciated it is too) and thus followed my first usage of iTunes on a PC for many years. OH MY GOD WHY IS ITUNES SO HORRIBLE? All I wanted to do was copy a few folders of trance to the iPod from the NAS, but of course iTunes doesn't work like that.
After much tussling and frustration with how iTunes sits between my music collection and the iPod, I managed to copy a load of trance on there and divined a method to create a playlist for it. (I've got hundreds of mp3s 60-70 minutes long, recorded straight off trance.fm and literally just called 001.mp3, 002.mp3, 003.mp3 and so on, and iTunes is hassling me about artists and genres and wanting to fucking scan everything to look for stuff, fucking thing.)
Thanks to a Civic Wiki site I learned that the playlists need to be called Honda1xxxyyyzzz, Honda2xxxyyyzzz etc and then the iPod kit in the Civic sees the iPod as a nine disc CD changer and you can control it from the head unit/steering wheel, with 'discs' 1-7 being the first seven playlists on there, 8 being a random play of everything on the iPod, and 9 being whatever it's playing when you plug it in.
I just did one massive playlist for all the trance I'd copied to the iPod, disconnected it from iTunes, plugged it into the connector in the Civic, a Honda logo popped up on the iPod's screen and it worked perfectly. The connector also charges the iPod so no need to worry about that, and it resumes exactly where it left off when you turned the ignition off when you next turn the ignition on. (The head unit also controls the iPod's power, so I don't have to touch the iPod at all, it simply sits in its little hidden cubbyhole.)
So after the initial frustration with iTunes and me wishing I just still had a USB connector like in the Accord, it's turned out to be absolutely fine, and I really do doff my cap to GazChap for being so kind as to post the iPod out to me for just the cost of postage. (Having had a look on eBay they're not exactly worthless!)
So yeah, all seems pretty cool
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