Re: Phil, you'll appreciate this
- From: "Roxanna" <ccooney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 02:00:56 -0400
"Rager93" <Rager93@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Roxanna wrote:
> > I had quite the day today - it started off on a bad note,
>
> I can relate...all my weekdays start off bad by the simple fact that I
> have to go to work. :-(
Hmm. Maybe you should start off your day with some better music.
Perhaps "The Spirit of Radio." :)
> > I had to go to a conference this morning where a bunch of vendors
were
> > doing presentations on their products.
>
> Heh...just gotta mention I'll be at a Conference all next week...in
> Lake TAHOE!! Woohooo!! Okay next week won't start off as bad days.
Sounds like fun, as long as you can get through the actual conference!
Usually, I hate that kind of thing...last week's wasn't too bad (because I
won stuff), but too much time wasted on advertizing rather than just showing
us the software and what it can do.
> >It's farther than where I work and
> > naturally traffic was horrible.
>
> Is this the case everywhere. I've sort of become numb to it living the
> SF Bay Area. Everybody talks about LA Traffic but they've got nothing
> SF traffic...it's brutal.
I've heard that LA traffic is the worst in the country, and if that's
true, I'm glad I don't work there! I would go nuts. I hate Chicago because
of the traffic. It's bad enough where I live, and because of the climate,
there's always lots of construction. But aside from rare occasions, I can
deal with it without wanting to kill someone. When I'm sitting in traffic
in the Chicago area, I want to kill everyone. I dream of tornados sucking
up the entire state of Illinois and hurling it into outerspace, never to be
seen again. Of course this would happen during ProgPower or something when
Ray and Britt are safely in Atlanta. :)
> [snipped but read ordeal of being 1.5 hours late] You're like my wife
> she is OCD when it comes to punctuality.
It's not OCD, it's the way everyone should be. :)
> > I snuck into one of the presentations, and they had a little
information
> > card they wanted everyone to fill out. At the end of that presentation,
the
> > had a drawing from the cards and the next thing I knew, someone was
calling
> > my name out. I had won an iPod Shuffle! Yay for me!
>
> WOHOOOO!! Rox joins the the iPod Nation!! Gotta love winning stuff.
I know! I'm still excited about it!
> > I wasn't going to buy
> > an mp3 player, but a free one is a whole other matter.
>
> If you're ganno win something I can't think of a better thing to win
> than an iPod.
Well, I dunno about that, but I'm not going to complain. :)
> > I was already
> > planning out how I would use it - mainly to download stuff I want to
> > evaluate. It'll be a lot more convenient than burning them to a disc,
> > especially if I wind up not liking it. So, I wound up being an ipod
owner
> > after all. :)
>
> "You can't walk away now. bwahahahahahah". ;-) Never was huge on the
> Shuffle. I think it needs a small screen that at least displays the
> track and artist names....but that's just me. The 2 people I know that
> have them...LOVE them for there size/weight and use them as a "workout"
> mp3 players.
That's something else I've thought of too - it'll be much less
cumbersome than my discman which I have to shove into my pocket. Getting to
see the track information would be nice, but if I'm working out, it's not
like I'll be looking for song titles anyway. For work, I can always email
myself the information if it's new stuff I'm not familiar with.
> > A couple presentations later, I won a nice little business travel
bag
> > (which I put my iPod in). Winning stuff is fun, especially when it's
nice
> > stuff. :) The day was over by 3:00 pm and I did not stop by the office
> > afterwards. :)
>
> Damn....you didn't happen to buy a lottery ticket that day did you?
> ;-)
In fact, on my way home, I stopped at a gas station and bought two
tickets. But my luck must have been up by then. I guess I can't quit quite
yet!
> > So now I'm ready to load up my iPod, but there is one problem. I
have
> > Windows 98 and it doesn't like that. :(
>
> DOH!!!
>
> >So Phil, is there anyway I can get
> > around this (like some alternate software someone created that's
floating
> > around out there), or do I pretty much just need to upgrade?
>
> I'm not all that familiar with Windows freeware/shareware but I
> wouldn't be suprised if somebody somewhere created a hack around the
> whole Win2k/WinXP requirments. But my feeling is probably not; Apple
> is pretty strict with it's system requirements. You'll probably need
> to upgrade Can't believe you're still on Win 98 though. You should
> really upgrade...to OS X 10.4 Tiger. ;-) That would solve all of your
> computer problems in fell swoop. A Mac mini will only run you $499 if
> you're content using your current keyboard/mouse and monitor. LOL!!
I'm not particularly attached to Windows 98, I just haven't had a need
to upgrade up until now. I *have* been thinking about a new computer on and
off, and I may just go ahead and do it (but it won't be a Mac). I'm the
type of person who doesn't like to buy something unless I *need* it. I have
an old small tv that doesn't even work with my dvd player - the dvd player
has to go through the VCR to work with the TV. I could buy a new tv, but
mine works fine, so I don't need one. :) I don't really need a new
computer. Mine works fine. But it's pretty old and it was put together by
a friend of a friend and I barely know what's in it. The case was something
left over that he had and my hard drives are kind of just hanging around in
there, and the cd rom drives are sitting on top of each other, unsecure.
The cd burner mysteriously stopped working for about a month then started
working again. And it's not a simple matter of upgrading Windows, because
he set it up so the main hard drive with Windows was my old 1 gb hard drive,
and the new one I bought, the 40 gb one, has everything else on it. Windows
2000 or XP requires more space than that. I could work around that, back up
my stuff, put Windows on the bigger hard drive, and not have to buy anything
except maybe a new cd burner sooner or later. The part of me that says I
don't *need* a new computer says I should just do that. Then there's the
other part of me that says I'm going to need a new one eventually, and it
sure would be nice to have the flat panel monitor that comes with it, and I
may as well get all the nice new stuff in one purchase and be done with it.
> Congrats and let me know how it goes and if you need any help with
> iTunes.
As soon as I get to use it, I'll let you know. :)
Chris
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