Welp, I just spent most of my quarterly bonus, well, the last bonus, and not for the entire quarter, just two months of it, since Infor has different policies. Oh yeah, my company was bought by Infor, I didn’t talk about that since I don’t talk about work. But as I originally posted about having been hired by Workbrain, I guess I’ll say, I’ve been hired by Infor (by virtue of not having been un-hired when they took over)

Anyway, so I’m now a ambivalent ipod owner. I dunno about these things, I got one for my mother for christmas because it has a reputation of being easy to use and I thought that would help, and she loves it. My brother got one for his birthday from my mother, and he apparently enjoys his. And now that I go to the gym, and my gymming cohort has had to miss the last couple, I thought I would get one to give me distraction while I elliptical myself to death for 2 hours.

But it didn’t stop there, oh no, I bought a 320 GB external drive as well, since I always seem to need more space, woot. And then I bought another massive surge protector since my UPS takes up one socket, and an extension cord running to the other side of the room (for lamp, fan, alarm clock) takes up the other, and I have no more outlets other than that one dual outlet, which sucks. So I’ll plug the new adaptor into the extension cord one and then the cord into it. I really don’t want to overtax my poor UPS.

And it didn’t stop there either, cause then I got a case for my ipod since I know they scratch like hell (I presume apple did this on purpose, to fuel an accessory business). And finally, I picked up season 10 of the Simpsons, just because I felt like it.

When I was buying the ipod, the guy went through their service plan, and tried to coax me into getting it. But I never go for those things, I’ve never really had a problem with these things, and if I did, then I’d just suck it up. There are other warranties on these things, and it’s not that huge of an item. A computer, yes, I’d probably think more about it, but these always feel like a scam to me. It was originally like 80 dollars, when I first said no, he said “…. well, what if it was *clickity* 60 dollars?”. I know he lost commission or will get punished or something, but I’m just not willing to pay them money so they can tell me the service plan won’t cover whatever happened to whatever you are complaining about and oh you don’t have the special Service Plan pin we gave you then I’m sorry there is nothing we can do no I assure you nothing will someone get security over here…. yeah.

So I now have my goodies, and my account weeps. I’ll probably blog in a minute when my ipod melts or something “Why?! Why didn’t I get that service plan!?!?”