Although not officially on my Ship of Fools: Part Deux cruise planning check list, I have been keeping a close eye on the Sunday ads for a well-priced MP3 player to take along on the cruise. Well, today I can officially cross off that unofficial item from my cruise planning list!

I noticed last weekend that Office Depot had a really good price on the player I wanted. The Sansa Express USB MP3 Player comes with a 1 GB built-in memory, an expansion slot for Micro SD cards (which can add an additional 2 GB of memory and possibly more), FM tuner and recorder, all packaged in a sleek little body with a nice LCD scrolling display.

It seems easy enough to use... Just plug it directly into any USB port and drag and drop song files (or other types of files) onto the device. Unplug and, voila! Music!

Now, as I sit out on one of those comfy Deck 4 loungers and watch the ocean and world sail by, I can add my own musical soundtrack.

And in the "other-not-so-exciting-news-to-anyone-other-than-Jason" department: My second to last car payment was withdrawn from my account this morning. Only one more payment to go!!!