Praha, Pivo, Prosim

Since this is a brand spanking new MacBook, I decided to fool with iMovie and see what dumb crap I could come up with for the newest video installment.

I present to you my loyal readers, a very crappy production!

Why? Because he brought me this pretty little machine this morning. Hot damn. I’ve already rolled over my music. Hooray for me. I was assuming that since I was running an old version of iTunes and OS X that somehow it would be more complicated than it was but since I have an external hard drive it was no problem. Yeah me! I did have a bit of a scare though shortly after I powered up the new machine. Macs come loaded with a nifty little iSight camera in the machine and before I knew it I was staring at a very unattractive live view image of myself. The computer then asked if me I wanted to snap a pic using iSight so that would be my default user image. On most occasions I have little to no problem showing off horrible pictures of myself. However, this one was just fucking horrendous. Seriously. Damn. I spared myself the misery of that. 

 And a special thanks to my pal SB in in the Tarheel state!!  

As I slowly check things off my moving/stuff to do checklist, I’ve posted a pic of the most expensive from the checked off column. I don’t usually consider myself cheap or miserly but I hate spending this kind of money on something I really don’t need. Perhaps a less expensive model could have/should have been purchased or even an inferior (don’t kill me PC lovers for using that term) brand, but for nothing other than aesthetics and WOW factor did I buy the new aluminum MacBook. I’ve expounded on my female-driven/estrogen-laden love for Macs in previous blogs (since deleted) so it’s fair to say that I’m forever a convert to the Apple brand. It just sucks that their systems are pricer than most others. To that I say boo.

On the other end of things I’m justifying this expense for a few reasons…
a) I never make huge purchases
b) I wanted this particular (new!!) machine
c) this will be my main mode of communication to people thousands of miles away
d) I hear the new version of iLife is just sick…

The next step is to move my iTunes from my current iMac to an external hard drive. I’ve read up on this and it might be more complicated than it seems. Not looking forward to that. But, after all that business is complete, I’ll check another expense off my list and go ahead and buy an iPod. Truth be told I wouldn’t mind an iPod Touch, either. Again with the need factor as I clearly do NOT need the Touch but they are amazing and pretty and so much fun. I do need to get my music on a portable player and while a larger capacity iPod would be feasible my chick instinct might force me to buy an iPod Touch. Damn, sometimes this vagina renders me weak and powerless to the shopping Gods. If anyone has any input on the iPod vs. Touch debate, please leave a comment. I need to be pursuaded.

UPDATE: 9:45 pm…. Several times today after posting this initial blog, I confess I was THIS CLOSE to throwing my budget to the wind and purchasing a 32GB iPod Touch. Real restraint exhibited today.

And a few other things….

The latest installment of WHAT’S ON MY NEIGHBOR’S DOORSTEP

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Well, it seems my neighbor has expanded her garbage repertoire this holiday season to include a few new and unique items. While the poop bag pile is at a minimum (or perhaps because it’s mostly hidden), she managed to stack on a box from JC Penney as well as the dog box/carrier thing that is apparently no longer of use. I don’t think the dog kicked it as the poo is still clearly present. I’m curious to see the upgraded canine accomodations.

And here’s a snippet of how unorganized and generally messy my apartment is today. No, I don’t have inches of guano all over the place nor is the carpeet littered with fast food containers. My place is certainly habitable but if I had important guests arriving (let’s say the Queen of England), she would be unimpressed even if I did buy the fancy rose-scented soaps.

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Yes there is an iPod Shuffle here but frankly, due to it’s lacking capacity, I don’t consider it a ‘real’ iPod. A coworker told me he has nearly 200GB of music (you read that right) and while I don’t have anything NEAR that but I’d like to have all my tunes on a player rather than be required to swap them out when I’m bored. Two hundred GB of music is excessive and there just isn’t any way one can really enjoy ALL that stuff. Hell, at present I’m deleting a bunch of files from my paltry 16GB worth of tunes because I neither want nor need music that I skip over.