I'm a tool

Let's see how many bandwagons I can jump onto this week. First I start a blog -- oh, so original -- and now I'm an iPoddin' fool. Well, truth be told, I've had an iPod since mid-December. My parents wanted to recognize an educational/professional achievement (my inexplicably passing the bar exam) with an electronic gadget of my choosing. A BlackBerry was considered, but I decided I'd get more entertainment from an iPod. However, it and the array of accessories my parents generously added to the gift package have been lying dormant in a box at home for two months now. Why? Because, twisted as this is, my home computer -- a Mac, mind you -- is incompatible with the iPod. Even the computer guy at work found this inconceivable. But the iPod requires OSX, and my iBook, Yoda, has OS9. He also has too little memory to run OSX, so I'd have to buy more memory and the OSX software to try to bring him up to speed.

So I decided I'd just run my iPod at work. Others do. However, my work computer's USB ports are out of whack. I'm supposedly getting a new work computer soon, but not soon enough for my urgent mobile-listening needs, so a friend has loaded my lil' iPod with some files from her iTunes for the time being. I can start over when I'm in possession of a computer with which the iPod will work. Ain't technology grand?

I think my obnoxiousness level is reaching intolerable heights: blogging, iPodding, getting a new car (soon), traveling to exotic destinations...all while whining about having a cold. And receiving copious amounts of Valentine's Day chocolate. I hate me.