The Preciousssss

[izmeina]

Izzie has had an eventful day. Been a busy bad little serpent and yielded to terrible temptation in the Garden of Eden. In the middle of the Garden stands the Tree of knowledge of good and evil guarded by a prowling panther protecting its preciousss fruit from nasty bugses and viruses.
And Izzie just could not keep her greedy scaly fingerses away from it.

Tasty little morsels indeed. Soon - the evil command of the Dark Lord "Windoze has performed an illegal operation and will now close down..... blah blah blah " will no longer be heard in the Lair of the Emerald Serpent.
In fact we were greeted with those very words this evening upon entering the net cafe's Cyberian Portkeys.


Yessss. Izzie had her usual grand adventures planned for Friday but the lure of forbidden fruit was just too overwhelming and Izzie felt the urge to visit the Garden which is only a ten minute walk from her abode. Don't be such a silly serpent she thinks. What's the rush? When you go to the bother of buying an all day Floo Network Pass, it just does not make sense to spend any time more than necessary lurking in a place that is just around the corner. Unless of course you mean business.
See. Izzie is a most indecisive serpent and a terrible procrastinator and is often known to spend 3 months shopping and comparing and reading Choice magazines and stuff when she wants to buy even the most mundane gadgets such as cassette players or hifi systems or cars or whatever. (Mind you - the biggest thing Izzie ever bought (the Lair) involved a decision time of just 20 minutes)

So. The fact of the matter is - if we are going to waste precious time that could have been spent in our other favorite garden, then we need results. An added incentive is having four days off at the end of next week and then a week's holiday starting on 2 March.
The Iz slinked upstairs to the first floor of the book store and did the unthinkable. After only two weeks snooping and searching, we put in an order for the iBook and in an act of exceptional decadence, decided to take advantage of the iPod offer as well.
Unfortunately, we get to wait for the $$200 rebate unlike the lucky folks with credit cards who order online at the Apple Store and get the discount automatically.

The guy said that while the truck with the goodies would be arriving with the big juicy Apples at the end of the week and Izzie could get one straight away since she wasn't ordering extra wurst, the story is rather different with the little pips.
Using sales speak, he says they are 'constrained' and there's rather a long waiting list. Iz asked what the point was of putting on such a promotion when it doesn't seem at all necessary. He said they often wonder that too and get a bit peeved because the company makes such extravagant offers and then cannot deliver. Or rather - the uptake is way beyond expectations. One would think by now they would be used to this crazy iPod feeding frenzy that is so reminiscent of the Sony Walkman thing in the 1990's (or maybe it was '80s)

So basically - Iz has got herself between the iBook and the outrageously expensive 3 year warranty a student discount of $$250 plus the $$200 rebate which basically amounts to paying the standard price and getting a 20gb iPod thrown in for free. Iz certainly does not think it is worth the $$500 recommended retail price. It's probably half that in the US. We're used to getting screwed in the land of Oz.
Apart from admiring how elegant they are - especially the silver mini versions (Iz thinks the whole shuffle concept is a stupid waste of time) the thing had never ever been an object of Izzie desire or interest at all but after listening to all these squawking pimple faced cyberterrorists squealing and squawking and being packed like a sardine on the train home today due to some stupid football match where one team has blue and yellow scarves and stuff and the unlikely name "The Eagles" (Bunch of old boilers if you ask the Iz) having a very large quantity of Lisa Gerrard and Mike Scott to drown out the noise would have been a most welcome diversion indeed.

Yesss. It's time to do a refresher course in Defence Against the Dark Arts (especially protection from poltergeists) and to revise the fascinating tricks and techniques outlined by the interesting folks in the LJ 'empaths' community.
Mind you - being tired and not much sleep lately with all the hot weather, always makes the Iz infinitely more sensitive to external interferences such as nasty stinking coffin nails and loud or high pitched noises.

So the Izzie will soon be in possession of her Preciousssss and from now on will stay at home playing with her new toys instead of drooling over them incessantly in her Cyberian Squiggles.
Who knows. She might be extra good and use her new toy to finally write out the pages of that infernal resume. Now that the raucous rabble are back in business, this net cafe is becoming a most undesirable place for the mental health of such a noise sensitive serpent.
Shocking. Bought a whole 11 hours of online time on Tuesday and now there remains less than 30 minutes of it!

Comments

[tanuja.livejournal.com]

Congratulations, you're almost part of the club of the white earphones. :) Me, I bought a 40GB one, just before we left the US, and although my very kind husband loaded most of my CD's into it, fear of London pick-pockets has kept it at home. Next week, however, I get a new handbag that I can slip the i-pod in and simply play.

Sympathy for the Devil? It's one of my favourite Stones' tracks, and will be on my commuting playlist.