Adventures in iPodding

I'm sitting in my room, just sort of staring at the wall when it dawns on me that I have some new CDs that have yet to be loaded onto my iPod. I pop them in the laptop and one after the other and load the songs into iTunes. I don't keep all my music on my computer so I have the iPod set up so I need to manually import the songs into it. So I do. But then I start playing around with the options.

My interior monologue:

Hmm... what does this button do.... ah, I see, the iPod options. Well, I can automatically update the most recent played, top-25 played, and top-ranked songs... nice.... let me choose that option.... man, I really hope what will really happen is, instead of automatically updating those 3 specific playlists, it will delete all but 2 of the 4,035 songs I have on the iPod.... awesome! It did exactly that! This is great. Now I can listen to this Dead Kennedys song and this Bob Dylan song alternately all day! This is working out well!