Simple is Good!

It was a long day...I had been trudging through a hard problem all day, and I was ready for my workout. I could almost smell the sweat...

I picked an hour-long playlist that would keep me going. After carefully going through a long list of albums, I discarded all of them and picked a 2000's workout playlist.

I stuck the phone in my workout bag, and hung the bag in one corner. Then I put on the bluetooth headsets and I was transported into the magical world of workout music.

The music was thumping, I was jumping as I swayed along to my elliptical nirvana.

The gym was getting busier, but I didn't care. I had my music.

I didn't have a care in the world.

Then fifteen minutes in, it happened.

Silence!

In my headset...No more music!

All I could hear now was the old man yapping on the phone and the lady grunting as she picked weights that were obviously more than she could handle.

What the heck happened...the music just stopped.

Now I had a choice. I could stop working out to check on the phone that was supposed to play music or I could just finish the workout with no music. And so I did. I just decided to finish the workout. My carefully planned workout session crumbled like a week-old cookie.

So much for a good plan.

Post-mortem

Turns out the music app on my phone decided to start crashing after an overnight update. It's been crashing ever since. If only there were music players that didn't hang or crash or decide to stop playing to check whether I was still listening. Oh wait! There were...they were called MP3 players. They did one thing and they did it well. Sometimes the simpler option is better.