Typical me
It really is typical me. Whenever I buy something major, be it a car, appliance, computer software, I always doubt myself and the purchase. So what did I do yesterday? Yup, I returned the iPod. But I got myself something much, much better and I will get better use out of.
This weekend is going to be a tax free weekend for clothes and all back to school supplies. I remember last year's fiasco, people just mobbing the malls, being rude and unruly, the carrying of the bounty back to the car... I can just avoid the malls for days before and after.
IM tired, I need a nap and my blankie.
Tuesday, August 03, 2004
Monday, August 02, 2004
A very productive weekend indeed
Ok, lets back track for a minute. Last year, before I bought the Mustang, I had made a list of items that I would love to get as a Christmas gift. One of the items (other than the Mustang and the XM Radio and the K&N Air Filter kit etc) was the iPod.
click image for Apple website
Well, as luck often dictates itself around me, things fell into place nicely. A week ago, Yolie, her husband Teddy, her cousin and myself were in circuit City browsing for some blank CD's to burn wedding pictures when I saw the clearance isle in the front of the store. There, among the returned items was a 10 gigabyte iPod.
Apple no longer makes 10 gig iPods so this one was a rare find. This one was out of the box, but it was complete. I joked with Yolie and Teddy that this would have been a nice little "thank you" gift from them and we all laughed it off and they bought the blank CD's and we all left. I figured in my mind that would have been the last I saw the iPod until I got a wild hair up my ass and went back into circuit City this weekend.
I had no intentions on buying the iPod, after all, I figured someone else would have bought it long before the weekend was up. Just for shits and giggles, I did look at the clearance isle just to satisfy my mind. There, along side a 30 gig iPod was the 10 gig iPod sitting right where I remembered it to be. I left it alone for a moment while I looked around the store at some new monitors, but something inside me kept calling me back.
So, after pontificating the possibilities and running the logic of buying something so gaudy and unipurpose, I fell into the moment and bought it. It took me 10 minutes to get the hang of the controls and the menus, but right now as I am typing in this entry, I am jamming out to half of my Fleetwood Mac collection. I haven't even put a dent in the iPods capacity for holding songs, and I haven't even started to download songs.
PS, I got the iPod at a clearance price of $239, the 30 gig iPod was on clearance for $349. It pays to look for a bargain.
Ok, lets back track for a minute. Last year, before I bought the Mustang, I had made a list of items that I would love to get as a Christmas gift. One of the items (other than the Mustang and the XM Radio and the K&N Air Filter kit etc) was the iPod.
click image for Apple website
Well, as luck often dictates itself around me, things fell into place nicely. A week ago, Yolie, her husband Teddy, her cousin and myself were in circuit City browsing for some blank CD's to burn wedding pictures when I saw the clearance isle in the front of the store. There, among the returned items was a 10 gigabyte iPod.
Apple no longer makes 10 gig iPods so this one was a rare find. This one was out of the box, but it was complete. I joked with Yolie and Teddy that this would have been a nice little "thank you" gift from them and we all laughed it off and they bought the blank CD's and we all left. I figured in my mind that would have been the last I saw the iPod until I got a wild hair up my ass and went back into circuit City this weekend.
I had no intentions on buying the iPod, after all, I figured someone else would have bought it long before the weekend was up. Just for shits and giggles, I did look at the clearance isle just to satisfy my mind. There, along side a 30 gig iPod was the 10 gig iPod sitting right where I remembered it to be. I left it alone for a moment while I looked around the store at some new monitors, but something inside me kept calling me back.
So, after pontificating the possibilities and running the logic of buying something so gaudy and unipurpose, I fell into the moment and bought it. It took me 10 minutes to get the hang of the controls and the menus, but right now as I am typing in this entry, I am jamming out to half of my Fleetwood Mac collection. I haven't even put a dent in the iPods capacity for holding songs, and I haven't even started to download songs.
PS, I got the iPod at a clearance price of $239, the 30 gig iPod was on clearance for $349. It pays to look for a bargain.
Friday, July 30, 2004
Wha...? What day is it? Friday?
You're kidding?! Um, where the hell did July, let alone the entire half of 2004 go? I just realized it was friday! Litterally, I was updating my laptop and looked at the date on my anitvirus software and realized it was going to be August! Wow.
I guess since I have been hanging out with my friends all week since they have been here, the days no longer seem seperated by periods of work and toil. It doesn't help that each day that passes I accomplish fewer intended goals.
That reminds me, I have a TON of laundry to do!
You're kidding?! Um, where the hell did July, let alone the entire half of 2004 go? I just realized it was friday! Litterally, I was updating my laptop and looked at the date on my anitvirus software and realized it was going to be August! Wow.
I guess since I have been hanging out with my friends all week since they have been here, the days no longer seem seperated by periods of work and toil. It doesn't help that each day that passes I accomplish fewer intended goals.
That reminds me, I have a TON of laundry to do!
Thursday, July 29, 2004
Time is enigmatic
When you stop and think about it, time is the perception of elapsed moments in history, chronographed by a system of mathematical equations that us as humans need to justify our existence and importance in the world. So what does that say about a person when they tell you or you realize that you had little time to accomplish everything you figured one week was plenty of time for? I wanted to do so much in my time off, and only accomplished 75% of my list of things to-do.
It's ok, though. Time is on my side, and I am taking full advantage of it.
When you stop and think about it, time is the perception of elapsed moments in history, chronographed by a system of mathematical equations that us as humans need to justify our existence and importance in the world. So what does that say about a person when they tell you or you realize that you had little time to accomplish everything you figured one week was plenty of time for? I wanted to do so much in my time off, and only accomplished 75% of my list of things to-do.
It's ok, though. Time is on my side, and I am taking full advantage of it.
Wednesday, July 28, 2004
STRANGE FINDINGS FROM THE INTERNET XXXXIV
-the numbers match!
That's not a space station, that's a planet! Is it me, or did that plannet just launch an attack on Alderaan? This is just one of those strange, creepy things that words cannot describe. How cool is that?
Man, what Caribbean vacation would be complete without being stuck on a rusting hulk of a ship with three of the 80's wussiest-looking bands? Heaven help them in a sissy-slapping contest...
I have to admit, I am a lucky guy. I never had to work a fast-food joint, customer service at any type of retail store, nor have I ever been a cashier. That doesn't mean that radio people don't get their share of idiots and assholes who call in and harass. After reading a few of these stories, it gives me a whole new appreciation for people who do this sort of thing for a living.
I swear I just saw a tuft of smoke rise from the monitor here at work... Anyways...
Unless you are an entomologist and cared deeply about your favorite pet scorpion, why in the hell would you buy this? More importantly, do you leave flowers or roach traps?
You know, I don't know what the hell is it with me and robots and things that think for themselves. IM finding the strangest things involving computers that are thinking for themselves, answering the most important of questions: Animal, Vegetable or Mineral?
Another art link. Surrealism this time. Don't know what that is? Click here.
Finally, another time waster. This game ranks right up there with Pingis & Tetris. This lets you shoot baskets without destroying the environment. However, if you wanted to be nit-picky, the cost of 10-20 sheets of paper is far less of an impact on the environment than the creation of electricity and the impact on birds hitting wind generators, fish being turned into slurry in water powered turbines & bears climbing telephone poles to search for pickinik baskets!
Voyeurs...
-the numbers match!
That's not a space station, that's a planet! Is it me, or did that plannet just launch an attack on Alderaan? This is just one of those strange, creepy things that words cannot describe. How cool is that?
Man, what Caribbean vacation would be complete without being stuck on a rusting hulk of a ship with three of the 80's wussiest-looking bands? Heaven help them in a sissy-slapping contest...
I have to admit, I am a lucky guy. I never had to work a fast-food joint, customer service at any type of retail store, nor have I ever been a cashier. That doesn't mean that radio people don't get their share of idiots and assholes who call in and harass. After reading a few of these stories, it gives me a whole new appreciation for people who do this sort of thing for a living.
I swear I just saw a tuft of smoke rise from the monitor here at work... Anyways...
Unless you are an entomologist and cared deeply about your favorite pet scorpion, why in the hell would you buy this? More importantly, do you leave flowers or roach traps?
You know, I don't know what the hell is it with me and robots and things that think for themselves. IM finding the strangest things involving computers that are thinking for themselves, answering the most important of questions: Animal, Vegetable or Mineral?
Another art link. Surrealism this time. Don't know what that is? Click here.
Finally, another time waster. This game ranks right up there with Pingis & Tetris. This lets you shoot baskets without destroying the environment. However, if you wanted to be nit-picky, the cost of 10-20 sheets of paper is far less of an impact on the environment than the creation of electricity and the impact on birds hitting wind generators, fish being turned into slurry in water powered turbines & bears climbing telephone poles to search for pickinik baskets!
Voyeurs...
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