If it's not one thing its another

So I was on Newegg looking at cameras and I bought a iPod. I'm not really sure how this happened either. There is a list of things in my head that I want and for one reason or another I don't buy, but I have researched into. Most of the time, the things i want cost too much for what I want out of them. An iPod is a good enough example of this. I wanted a small MP3 player with good battery life at least a few gigs of memory (I don't need to store my entire music collection on the silly thing, just enough to give me verity over the week), and not cost an absurd amount of money. An iPod fit most of these requirements except the money part, but they were coming down.

While checking on cameras I decided to check in on the price point for the iPod nano (for those not up on the Apple music players, Nano is the smallest player they make that still has a screen, I expect that in the few years it will be implantable). To my surprise the price point not only dropped but a whole new generation of the model had come out. It had reverted to a form factor of about two generations back (which I liked better anyway) with a larger screen, motion control (which seems silly for a device designed to be used while running and such) and a whopping 16 Gigs of storage!!! Before I knew what was going on they had my credit card number and my new silver nano was on its way.

First impressions: MY GOD ITS SO SMALL!!!!! The packing material and box weights ten times more then it does. Imagine a pocket comb then broke it in half thats about the size and weight we are talking here. I am going to assume Apple designed it to be a little bit rugged but I am a little afraid its going to break in my pocket. That sadly is all I can say about it because I cannot put music on it yet. Why not, you ask. Because about the same time I was ordering the iPod my desktop decided to take a big dump and stop working. Good thing I have two computers ^_^ Windows starts to boot, blue screen of death, reboots, step repeat. Its so hosed that it won't even boot in safe mode, and I have never had that happen before.

So trying to reinstall Windows. The quick format failed so I am having to do it the slow way. Its about 59% through. At this rate it might be done some time tomorrow. Makes me seriously want to install Linux on the box. It may not be that much more stable then Windows but at least its free.