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I managed to trash my iPod earbuds this afternoon. They felt out of my pocket and got caught in one of the castors on my chair, which proceeded to shred through the cladding/insulation and chew up the tiny little wires inside. I could try to repair them but I'm not going to spend an hour of my life trying to solder those ends together. I also have no desire to receive electrical shocks to my left ear lobe.

So now I need new earphones. Feh.

In other news I may have driven past the home of doomsey and nekosensei and not even known it. My coworkers and I had a craving and so went to an irish pub in their town. Because of the storms that have ravaged the area in the last few days most of the town's power was out (though the pub was open and serving cold sandwiches, hooray for corned beef!), which meant we took a lot of residential streets to avoid major intersections without traffic lights.

Thanks to tugrik and a host of other people I know (I'm looking at you, Zephyr... as well as you, mindslide) I have finally cracked under pressure like the little technophile I am. Tonight I ordered two beautiful things that are encased in black:



Yep, I've officially joined the Cult of Apple. Or, perhaps it's more accurate to say I'm returning to my roots... after all, I did get started in the world of computers "back in the day" with an Apple ][e. Either way, I'm glad to be working for $employer at the moment because I got an excellent educational discount on both the iPod and the MacBook. That's a 60GB iPod in black that I ordered, along with the new 13.3" widescreen MacBook with the 2.0GHz Intel Duo chip, also encased in ebony. I'm looking forward to doing some lightweight video editing with the MB and toting my MP3s with me in the truck instead of having to burn albums to CD for the truck's CD changer.

So now I get to wait impatiently for each box to show up. Looks like the iPod will be here first, with the MacBook following shortly after. At least I had them shipped to the office so they wouldn't sit around on my front porch for any monkey to find and steal...

we're changing highways