I've got a new attitude... and a thinner wallet

(I'm not referring to my lost credit card. That's another story!)

This is my first blogging from my new laptop! Too cool. Somewhere I got the bright idea that I needed yet some more equipment to take up space in my place. So I started checking out the deals from Dell, and I found a super-SWEET one on an Inspiron 2200 that's pretty loaded. Still the damage was about 800 smackers. Even with a couple accessories I got setup for under $1000. Not too shabby! AND I've got a couple free wireless net connections floating around here. They aren't that good, but for right now, I ain't complainin'!

As if that wasn't enough, around the same time I caught a vibe that I was being left behind from this brave new world they call "iPod world". Mainly I wanted something small and with no moving parts to help me work out without having to suffer through the completely useless music they've always got on at the gym. And I have more than enough tunes to keep me entertained. But I couldn't see getting a hard drive-powered thing, and some of the smaller things just didn't have enough memory. Enter the iPod Shuffle...

They just lowered the price on the 1GB Shuffle, and it seems like that will do for me everything that I could hope for (within reason). I'm still waiting for it, but already I'm going thru my CD collection ripping all the suitable trance, techno, and generally pumping vibes into mp3s. (What a drag...) Actually, going thru the tunes and picking out what to load the Pod up with will be pretty cool.

So what does this mean for my lifestyle? Will I become a "Pod person" with the little white earbuds, oblivious to all the wondrous humanity around me? Will my laptop turn me into a blogging maniac who's never more than a minute away from my latest eBay bidding war or senseless e-mail listserv?

Time will tell. But if I start changing for the worse, be sure to slap me around first. But do it via a Podcast, please - otherwise, I might miss it!