Whew, working is tiring. Okay quick sum up of the last few days…

Thursday we met up with a woman off a CheapCycle list whow as selling up a brand new iPod Nano for $75. Yep, $75 BUCKS. 4 days old, opened and played with for 20 minutes. Nothing wrong with it.

Here’s what I’ve managed to put together:
She bought it on Monday and her hunny, the IT genius, opened it and when it of course didn’t work he threw a fit and said he didn’t like it. She had lost the reciept (still she could have gotten store credit) so moved to sell it on Cheapcycle. Over four days she went down from $150 on day one to $75 on day four- where I snapped at it thinking Mr Man should have one (and he liked the idea for an upcoming trip). We set an appointment to meet after work since she worked near my new job.

When we met to do the swap she said he was cussing it had no software and that it wasn’t working even though it seemed to be, then I explained to her (after checking to see it did work) that the booklet that comes with it says to download iTunes, and that is what it uses to load the music on. She looked like I kicked her to the face. They had never even looked at he 8 page business card booklet with nothing but pictures and simple text telling you how to use it. It’s on page one.

I got it home and popped it in my dock. 34MB of hard drive space were used. So I opened it up on the desktop to see Mr Tech Whiz had managed to plug it into the computer and even drug on a few music cuts (wmv’s which dont work on ipods and mp3’s) over the desktop. When it of course didn’t work, he threw a hissy fit.

The moral of this story is RTFM Muthafucka. Otherwise your loss is my gain! Well Mr Man’s gain. On the way home he was going “well it’s not MY ipod, it’s yours, I’ll never get to use it after the trip, you’ll steal it all the time. I only got it because it was a amazing deal.”

Okay - I have a 20GB iPod 3G and over 30GB of music. This is a 2 GB Ipod Nano. I can’t DECIDE 2GB of music I’d want to carry along. Sheesh, as if.

So we go home I mount it on the G4, I make him a play list to load on it, set it up to laod from that list and proceed to pull off ALL His music I have on my system for him and it totals 1.3GB.

Ooh, he says, and asks to go shopping at iTunes for some other stuff he wanted. $66 dollars of 80’s hair bands later, his ipod has 30mb of space left. An ipod filled completly with music I can’t stand. yeah, I’m gonna steal this 5- times a week. I did at least get to take off his music on MY ipod. I only carried it so he’d have it on call when we were in the car.

Upside - since my iPod is running out of Apple care in Feb I asked Mr Man when I get the $700 check for the pincushions book I am a part of if I can use half or so for a NEW ipod. Oh yeah 80 GB Video Pod here I come. Upside I can gift the old one to my Sister in law who has been wanting one, and maybe my ipod photo card reader too (since she’s a photographer). I’m realllllly gonna try to hold off till the new models come out. (Dave, whats the scoop on that? i’m gonna be chewing my arm off waiting for the right time.)

Other news… Four dogs.

My cat had won the prize gift basket at my vet’s and we went to pick it up. Walking in we ran into a lady with a gorgeous whiteish lab with some ginger spots on her nose and paws. Just docile and perfectly lab-like as you get. She didn’t even react to the three boxer puppies or the cage of kittens. The woman had found her wandering IN the road, she opened her door to move her and the dog jumped in. She drove tot he closest vet to see if they knew who she belonged to. They’d never seen her before.

She has a collar but no tags or microchip, of course. The vet scanned her. She’s not dirty at all or wet (and it’s been raining for days) and has nails that were recently trimmed. She’d not starving or undeweight, I dunno how long she was out before being picked up but it wasn’t long. (MICROCHIP YOUR DOGS PEOPLE!)

The lady was from Cinci visiting family can’t take a dog to her apartment, we took her off her hands while she went back to the area to ask around. she called back sayign one house was pointed out to have a white lab, left our info, but 8 hours later, no call. So it’s looking dim. We’re gonna be watching the paper for an ad.

Good news for “Newbie” (what I’m calling her since she’s, well, the newbie.) I have a pal in Pittsburgh who has been wanting a dog, and labs are his favorite breed. She’s a perfect a “lab” as you can get. She’s melded pretty well into the dog pack so far, a little growling from both sides but that’s normal pack stuff when there is a newbie trying to work out where they fit. She’s docile, calm and just adorable. Nothing hyper in this dog, period. Sometimes I wonder if she got into a bottle of Xanax. She’s that mellow.

So instead of the drive to IKEA in Detroit like I was planning next weekend, we’ll instead be heading to PIttsburgh with dog in tow to a new home if her owners don’t crop up. Complicates xmas day though.

This is what I got treated to on the way home Friday… A rainbow AND a killer sunset AT the same time. It was so awesome that the radio station was actually telling people to go outside and catch the sky.