Zen

“Where is it? Where iss it?” …. “Losst it is, my precious, lost, lost! Curse us and crush us, my precious is lost!”

-Gollum

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My beloved Zen Nano, which has been at my side for nearly three years, went missing early this week. It’s no where to be found. It’s perhaps lost for all time in that place to that place where missing toys vanish. The last two podcastless nights at work have been maddening without the voice of kindred folk to easy my ache induced by the wretches that spew broken English and bad grammar. So yesterday, whilst on break, I made a desperate, mad dash to the local best buy to pick up a replacement. The relatively inexpensive SanDisk Sansa Express trumps my old ZN in many ways. A rechargeable lithium ion battery, built FM tuner and, at one gig, boasts twice the storage space. It even came with some sweet preloaded tunes. At forty bucks, which is what I paid for my five-twelve meg Zen Nano back in O-Five, it was quite the bargain. All bonuses aside; the Sansa came sealed within the bain of my consumerist existence: a clamshell package. The solid carapace nearly caused me to loose a finger whilst trying to pry the Sansa free. Nonetheless, I’m quite happy with my purchase. RIP Zen Nano… wherever you are.

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My ISP’s website is down which means I’m unable to read my email. Oh bother! Perhaps it’ll be fixed come this afternoon. Otherwise I’ll be forced to call Comcast which is both a chore and a headache.

-Lex

Cold Coffee

It would appear that I misplaced my MP3 player. The one piece of technology that made the long nights at work tolerable has gone missing. For the life of me, I can’t seem to remember the last time I saw it. Making matters worse, I got a wee bit of the diarrhea last night at work. Not sure what caused it, but my suspicions lead me to believe it was that so-called coffee from the machine. Funny thing is I’ve had that toilet water before and this is the first time it’s ever disagreed with my bowels. If that weren’t enough of a kick to the pants; apparently BCC (Broward Community College) will be raising its tuition next year. Odds are that sleazy move by the powers-that-be might trickle down to my county and affect my tuition costs at MDC. ::sighs:: Hopefully tonight will fair better.

-Lex

When there’s not much else to talk about…

After scorching hundred degree mother's day weekend, we were greeted by a brisk sixty-seven breeze this morning… GTA IV’s been consuming my free time as of late. Its uber sweet, perhaps not the perfect ten many publications have been hyping, but certainly a car chase packed extravaganza the likes of which will be hard to top. Especially by a certain GTA clone sequel that’s due later this year… Update on that student loan I applied for: No go. ::sniff:: It would appear that I’ll be paying for most of my academic expenses out of pocket for a while longer. I’ve an interview at the University of Miami sometime next week, a meeting with the boss arranged by a certain relative who works at said institution. UM pays for all its employees' schooling. The downside to that is that one needs to have worked at the university for at least a year before the school ponies up for your secondary scholastic edification. More on this story as it develops.

-Lex