Miscellaneous good things

First of all, I want to say thanks to onemintjulep and purrfab, both of whom called me out of the blue recently to chat. (In both cases, coincidentally, while I was at work late.) Yay for friends!

Second of all, yay for friends!, got together with missdimple today on this spectacular day for a walk around the pond, followed by ice cream at JP Licks. (At JP Licks we had a great non–ice cream–related experience which I will try to remember to post about in a day or so.)</cryptic> It was really good to get to talk with her, and it was fabulous to be outside in short sleeves.

Third of all, yay for spending plastic money! Er, well, no, but I got something really cool, an iRiver H120 20Gb audio player. This functions as an MP3/Ogg/WAV/what-have-you audio player, an external 20Gb hard drive, and an FM radio. I fell in love with it while Kala was here; she’s got one which she got for a project a while back (and which she uses to back up her laptop to, as well as for music playing), and I’d been lusting after it ever since I saw hers. Well, after getting together with Jillian, I thought I’d stop by the Micro Center and browse (not having the iRiver player in mind at all, but just thinking I’d waste a few minutes picking through their markdown table or something). Well. They had it in stock. My ears perked up when I overheard one of the salespeople mentioning Ogg Vorbis compatibility as a selling point to somebody else who was looking for a music player, and I confirmed he was talking about the same thing Kala had. Well. I couldn't control myself.

On the one hand, this is a bad thing, because it’s more consumer debt (although I plan to transfer the balance to a new 0%-on-balance-transfers card). On the other hand, I think it’s going to make a noticeable difference in my quality of life to have this thing.

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