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Electronic Gadgets Hate Me

My Sony Walkman is dead. It has taken a swim in the washing machine. For those of you who don’t know it and are stuck in the 80s the Sony Walkman these days is a ultra small mp3 player. I chose the Sony Walkman over the much popular iPod because of a few reasons.
The Walkman is ultra-compact in size, about the size of a average USB flash stick. Of course being much smaller has its advantages. Less surface area means less buttons. One button for on/off which is the same button for menu selection. One button for play/stop which is the control for select. Two button to advance a selection in any mode and two discreet buttons for volume.
The Walkman doubles as a, guess what, a removal storage flash drive. It also had a FM radio receiver. How cool is that? The best thing is the Walkman is offered in an assortment of popular colors. Mine was in green, my favorite color so it felt like it was truly mine. I managed to find green earbuds to compliment it. I am the type that always chooses and possesses article which are in my favorite color. Well, maybe not always, after all I dislike having a green car and my computer being much like a car in my own analogous reasoning, is not green either. Also, my GPS is intentionally not green but bright yellow. This is because it is a pocket-sized eTrex and if I dropped it on the ground in the forest I would want to be able to locate it in the field.
The Walkman came to me by way of a Christmas gift last year. Sadly it didn’t even last one year. This has been a very tough year in my life too. But almost every day I listen to music from it. I even have I car adapter which broadcasts the music over the car stereo speakers.

I have placed the Walkman in a ziplock baggie with some rice in hopes that the moisture will be leeched out and it will be reactivated just like new again. Its been in this bag for four days now.
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On the upside at least I still can access the drive and I can retrieve my files. If anyone has any surefire reconstitution methods please let me know.