[I know I'm not supposed to be blogging, but...this was necessary!]
Apparently some of you didn’t know that my freeiPod got lost in the mail, thanks to the frickin’ United States Postal Service. I’m not a fan of them anymore. To hear the whole story of the lost iPod, go here.
So, Christmas came, and I gave up on the lost one, so I bought one and it came today, courtesy of FedEx (who I now love). And there was much celebration and many joyous shouts. But the best part of it, as you have already seen, is the free personalized engraving they were offering if you ordered your iPod online. So I did…and I got my revenge on the USPS. Forever, as long as my iPod lives, it will serve as a living testimony to what they did.
..:damn the usps:..
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Can you get any better than that? I’m very excited - I wasn’t sure if they were really going to engrave that in Shanghai, but they did. Thank you Apple.
[Update] I just got back from Safeway, to pick up some ice-cream and beer (for me and my sister). This was my first experience ever of my “life as a soundtrack.” It was amazing. I walked in right as David Gray’s Babylon came on, and I was walking right in step with the beat of the song, and I just had this huge grin on my face. I stood there picking out my 6-pack of Fat Tire, just picturing it as a scene in a movie. It was hilarious. If anyone saw me, they would have just laughed at how much I was smiling. Katie got an iPod-mini for Christmas too (pink, with a pink exo-skeleton) - so now we can walk downtown Princeton…enjoying our soundtracks…
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Did you buy this one or did they somehow find a way to get you your original one?
Bought it Andrew. Sorry for the confusion. Should be clear now…
Wow, congrats dood. To think I was there just two days ago as you told me that story, wondering whether they would actually engrave the word “damn” ;)
It would have been way too sucky to not have it arrive before you head back to PTS and have the eternal dilemma of “to (re)ship or not to (re)ship, that is the question”.
Ah, Shakespeare would have loved the iPod story…
woohoo! this is just wonderful.
i got a lime green mini from my one true love and i share the sentiment that all things are better with apple. and itrip.
i am intoxicated.
Adam, since i helped you get the first one, and since you’ve all but given up on it, i’d like to make you an offer to buy it for $100.00 should it ever show up. I did not get one for christmas, from myself or anyone else, so I am still hoping for a usps miracle… ;)
hook me up bro.
steve
$150 and it’s yours Steve…
Is your iPod green with gold metal? Or is that some Dooce effect or something?? Either way, I like it!
Damn the usps!
It was dooced….sorry folks, no gold iPod available yet…good eye KL, you know the dooce…
i’m o.d.-ing on the dooce. can’t see straight.
Seriously…dooce should be saved for special occasions, bro. (Not that iPods are not special…). I actually thought you just took a blurry pic on this one, sorry bro.
:)
Bro, this post is all about the iPod. I’m not in focus and I shouldn’t be…took a blurry photo…
Sheesh. Do you see a blurry iPod. No, I didn’t think so.
Critics. Hmph.
I thought the photo was brilliant Adam. Here are the important elements:
iPod = standard 20GB white/chrome
background = green something (card table?)
ambient room light = gold/yellow color
focus = lettering, hence Adam fuzzy
Adam = hint of smirk at finally getting iPod in hand
and it looks like your right arm is reaching up to take the picture… or did somebody else do it?
Green folder.
Ambient room. Check.
Yes, the smirk was important. And it was my right arm to take it. Not bad, eh? ;)
I’m with Josh . . .
one more self-indulgent Dooce effect and i’m gonna start calling it the Douche effect!
kudos on the iPod baby and happy new year! Say hi to KL too.
r
You have Fat Tire in your possession!? Oh envy and covetousness. . . That’s the worst thing about living on the east coast. I’m cut off from the very source of life, joy, and sustenance.
You should bring a couple six packs back with you and sell ‘em for $5 a bottle.
1. Hi Reno!!!
2. No saying Douche, it’s gross.
3. You can buy Fat Tire on the East Coast, there are two bottles of Fat Angel waiting for me in my fridge in Princeton right now! (I’ll sell them to you Steve, $5 a bottle)
Awesome :-) That’s hilarious. But I have to say you were certainly much kinder in your wording than I might’ve been.
Sorry Katie, but Fat Tire and Fat Angel aren’t the same. Fat Tire is brewed by New Belgium Brewing and Fat Angel is by Magic Hat Brewing Company.