Would you believe it? Just as I was coming off a common cold, I find myself infected with iPod fever. I just can’t get it out of my mind. Of course, being infected seems to attract money-saving offers.
You saw the first one, the $100 off an iPod with one-year audible.com subscriptions (Note: the cheapest audible.com subscription that qualifies works out to $180 for the year, the other is almost $240 for the year, so you’re just paying that $100 back over time… though you DO get the audio books and periodicals…).
Then there’s the one I got in the physical mail from one of my credit lines offering $25 off any purchase at the Apple store over $249 (iPods start at $299), which can be combined with my Education-for-Individuals discount of $30 and free shipping for a total of $55 actual savings if I buy it before the end of September with that particular credit line.
The fever is getting so bad that the new Pods Unite offer sounds pretty good, too. That one gives you a totally free iPod, a $100 credit at the iTunes Music Store, plus a special adapter designed to fit into a VW New Beetle, and more! The catch of course being that you have to buy a brand new VW New Beetle. (Base Prices start from $15,950 to $23,540 depending on which engine you want, and go up to… well, actually just $21,075 for the built-out diesel model I want.) Which … may be a little out of my price range, considering my current income level.
It’s burning me up. Burning up my conscious ability to stop myself from just ordering one. The only thing that stopped me from ordering one earlier today may have been my browser crashing. I have to assume my browser crashed for that very reason because, come on, it’s Safari, Apple’s browser. When does Safari crash? It must have known I shouldn’t go around spending hundreds of dollars with no idea how I’d pay it back? What would my father think of me if I just showed up one day with an iPod?
Yet at this rate, some day I’m going to have to get an iPod or simply face the physical meltdown of my brain. It’s been in my dreams for days now. Sometimes tiny iPods begin to dance across my vision, playing music and taunting me as I sit or work, music-free. Sigh. Time for bed. I’ve got to go have more dreams about tiny, shiny, portable music devices before I wake up in the morning for the drive down to PHX. Maybe I’ll buy myself an iPod with my birthday as an excuse. Did you know I’m changing demographics?
I did the same thing, buying it for myself for my birthday. It was a move I will never regret (except for the fact that the new ones came out a week later and price dropped on the old ones, dammit).
On the other hand, the fact that the Pods Unite campaign is looking good means you may need to take some sort of sedative, or mood stablizing drug.
I did the same thing, buying it for myself for my birthday. It was a move I will never regret (except for the fact that the new ones came out a week later and price dropped on the old ones, dammit).
On the other hand, the fact that the Pods Unite campaign is looking good means you may need to take some sort of sedative, or mood stablizing drug.
Well, you may not know it, but the only time I’ve done any serious considering of buying a car, the only car I considered was the VW New Beetle. It is also on the list of things I would like, though due to financial considerations, much further away than an iPod.
Incidentally, there are three other cars now on the list of cars I would seriously consider. The Mini, The MDI ”air car”, and under the right circumstances, the new Prius. Did I mention the New Beetle I want is the TDI? With the very-effecient diesel engine?
Or, you know, an iPod.
1.) What are your plans while in town, Teel?
2.) Do you have anything planned as far as your September 21 is concerned? Maybe rent a car or something? Hey, you could get even BETTER insurance rates for that car you don’t own now!
Well, you may not know it, but the only time I’ve done any serious considering of buying a car, the only car I considered was the VW New Beetle. It is also on the list of things I would like, though due to financial considerations, much further away than an iPod.
Incidentally, there are three other cars now on the list of cars I would seriously consider. The Mini, The MDI ”air car”, and under the right circumstances, the new Prius. Did I mention the New Beetle I want is the TDI? With the very-effecient diesel engine?
Or, you know, an iPod.
1.) What are your plans while in town, Teel?
2.) Do you have anything planned as far as your September 21 is concerned? Maybe rent a car or something? Hey, you could get even BETTER insurance rates for that car you don’t own now!
Why, iain, what a timely post! Anyway, err..
Ummm… plans? Gee, I guess I have at least three people who have decided I’m going to go see a movie with them Wednesday morning/day, so I sure hope they get those plans together so I don’t have to be in three places at once.
And for today… well, I can either sit here alone at my dad’s house until my brother comes home and then see if he has any ideas … or I could bus out to Tempe… I don’t know. I was thinking of working on my novel (I believe I can get this draft done within 8 hours more work, then it just depends on how long the editing process ends up taking), and I may be able to do that here or I may have to find myself someplace else to do it.
I’m here at least through Wednesday, maybe through Thursday and part of Friday. I was going to try to see The Hard Way at the Centerpoint, but apparently it isn’t playing there anymore (it was Friday), so I don’t know if I’ll make it out to Tempe. We’ll see, we’ll see. If you’d like to get together I’d be more than willing to try to schedule something. Maybe we can get a ‘Beer Club’ together Wednesday night.
As far as my birthday, I don’t really have any plans. Yet. Actually, depending on how long their trip takes, my grandparents could theoretically still be out of town then and I’d still be ‘stranded’ in Pine by my lonesome. Looking at a calendar, it appears to fall on a Sunday anyway, so I’ll be running the store that day, anyway. Sigh.
Why, iain, what a timely post! Anyway, err..
Ummm… plans? Gee, I guess I have at least three people who have decided I’m going to go see a movie with them Wednesday morning/day, so I sure hope they get those plans together so I don’t have to be in three places at once.
And for today… well, I can either sit here alone at my dad’s house until my brother comes home and then see if he has any ideas … or I could bus out to Tempe… I don’t know. I was thinking of working on my novel (I believe I can get this draft done within 8 hours more work, then it just depends on how long the editing process ends up taking), and I may be able to do that here or I may have to find myself someplace else to do it.
I’m here at least through Wednesday, maybe through Thursday and part of Friday. I was going to try to see The Hard Way at the Centerpoint, but apparently it isn’t playing there anymore (it was Friday), so I don’t know if I’ll make it out to Tempe. We’ll see, we’ll see. If you’d like to get together I’d be more than willing to try to schedule something. Maybe we can get a ‘Beer Club’ together Wednesday night.
As far as my birthday, I don’t really have any plans. Yet. Actually, depending on how long their trip takes, my grandparents could theoretically still be out of town then and I’d still be ‘stranded’ in Pine by my lonesome. Looking at a calendar, it appears to fall on a Sunday anyway, so I’ll be running the store that day, anyway. Sigh.