I burned numerous .aiff & .mp3 CDs to use in the now-dead Yaris, they'll all play in the newer Mazda 2.

Right now I'm syncing my iPod Nano 6th Gen (the one with the watch faces) in preparation for collecting the new (to me) car tomorrow. It has an aux audio input as one of the stereo options. There's also a USB port for charging various accessories.

Here’s a spoiler for you: The butler did it!

Had to stretch my back to get relief from that and grabbed my firearm crutch from the car and went for a five-minute hobble around a nightclub’s carpark to ease the stress on the groin injury. I’m home now and have applied arthritis cream to the sore bits.

I can’t go on yet. Been to a meeting in a suburb an hour from home. My back and strained/injured groin just aren’t coping with the drivers’ seat in my mother’s car. I’m 10 minutes from home and in agony.

@kdfrawg With the previous car I often encountered a shuddering clutch. This was dud to a slightly warped flywheel, not worth fixing until time to replace the clutch itself. This is cos you have to dismantle ½ the engine to get at it. I could usually get around the shudder by having another go at the clutch, it would bite on an unwarped section.

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The car is ready for pickup. Not enough time today so I’ll get it tomorrow.

Manuals tend to be at least $1500 cheaper than autos when new.

Yesterday I tried to load a 3.02 GB macOS Combo updater onto my SanDisk iXpand USB flash drive only to be told it was to big for the drive’s format. It’s a multi-system thing & has to be FAT32 to work properly. So I used another Mac-formatted drive.

I'm on an author's email/newsletter list. He's just made two short stories available to list members who can sign in & download them.
For the Kindle Paperwhite, he supplied a bookhip.com link which you enter in the device's "experimental browser." Then tap once on the image on screen to initiate the download.