Whine and Cheese
Oct. 28th, 2004 08:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eggwardsThis is probably going to sound whiney. In fact, it is whiney. It's a big whiney kid type rant from someone who finally figured our that under current circumstances, he isn't going to get what he wants for Christmas.
What I want is a 40GB iPod.
Yeah, many of you know that I have a 5GB iPod bought just days after they went on sale. This was back in 2001 when I had something called savings. When I didn't live in Houston and I didn't have so many bills. My life has changed a lot. Sure, it's changed for the better, but it's sure more expensive.
So I watched as the new, rather ugly U2-branded iPod, and the destined-to-show-your-porn-collection-while-you-use-the touch-wheel-one-handed iPodPhoto were introduced. Both are somewhat unnecessary to me, I still find my small, old original iPod unworthy as I want to put my larger than 20 GB music collection in a shiny, smaller box.
However, the $7.43 in my checking account says otherwise.
Mind you, payday is tomorrow. Sure, I'm eating Easy Mac this morning for lack of anything else in the house, but I'll make my rent payment. I'm not going into debt, I won't have my power shut off, and as God is my witness, I shall never go hungry again!
Go on...
Of course there's an X-factor. Soon our company's sharesave will mature, and we've been paying into it for a while. The stock purchase program was to have us buy the stock at a discount, set at the then low price of $15.00, but now, after scandal and customers leaving, the price of our stock is $10.39. Luckily we can take the value of the money we put in and not purchase the stock. It won't be a lot, but it could be a help.
So I'm whining about trivial things. The problem is I need to be better about my finances, but this is something for another, longer post.
Tonight I will go listen to Augusten Burroughs read from his new book, Magical Thinking, and buy it, on credit. Is it the best way to go? Would it be the better way to go? Well, I'd rather pay as I went, like our government should do, but this is a special event, and I'll make an exception. The book costs $23.99, but I'd pay more for a signed copy if I waited until after tonight's event.
The iPod I can wait on. Hell, give it a few months and the price may go down, or perhaps I'll manage my money a little better.
Excuse the whine...now back to the Mac and Cheese.
What I want is a 40GB iPod.
Yeah, many of you know that I have a 5GB iPod bought just days after they went on sale. This was back in 2001 when I had something called savings. When I didn't live in Houston and I didn't have so many bills. My life has changed a lot. Sure, it's changed for the better, but it's sure more expensive.
So I watched as the new, rather ugly U2-branded iPod, and the destined-to-show-your-porn-collection-while-you-use-the touch-wheel-one-handed iPodPhoto were introduced. Both are somewhat unnecessary to me, I still find my small, old original iPod unworthy as I want to put my larger than 20 GB music collection in a shiny, smaller box.
However, the $7.43 in my checking account says otherwise.
Mind you, payday is tomorrow. Sure, I'm eating Easy Mac this morning for lack of anything else in the house, but I'll make my rent payment. I'm not going into debt, I won't have my power shut off, and as God is my witness, I shall never go hungry again!
Go on...
Of course there's an X-factor. Soon our company's sharesave will mature, and we've been paying into it for a while. The stock purchase program was to have us buy the stock at a discount, set at the then low price of $15.00, but now, after scandal and customers leaving, the price of our stock is $10.39. Luckily we can take the value of the money we put in and not purchase the stock. It won't be a lot, but it could be a help.
So I'm whining about trivial things. The problem is I need to be better about my finances, but this is something for another, longer post.
Tonight I will go listen to Augusten Burroughs read from his new book, Magical Thinking, and buy it, on credit. Is it the best way to go? Would it be the better way to go? Well, I'd rather pay as I went, like our government should do, but this is a special event, and I'll make an exception. The book costs $23.99, but I'd pay more for a signed copy if I waited until after tonight's event.
The iPod I can wait on. Hell, give it a few months and the price may go down, or perhaps I'll manage my money a little better.
Excuse the whine...now back to the Mac and Cheese.
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Date: 2004-10-28 06:13 am (UTC)Even though the 5 may not be that big and could be swapped with a mini-iPod at this point... it's still an iPod.
And personally, I preferred the little wheel instead of the "touch" or "click" wheel. It made playing Brickles/Breakout so much easier.
The photo iPod, to me, misses the point. If it played MPG's, I could see it. But just photo's? WHO uses that feature on their camera... ever?
And yes, the U2 iPod is ugly. They should've made it completely black (with a blue light behind) and they should've reversed the LCD as well. Sure, the battery life would be less... but at least then it would be its own anti-iPod.
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Date: 2004-10-28 06:30 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2004-10-28 06:49 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-28 08:11 am (UTC)Love the iPodness of it! Love it! Touch it!
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Date: 2004-10-28 08:21 am (UTC)