it’s unix, not eunuchs

I RMAed my mini-ipod this Saturday. I get an email on Monday that was a bit confusing. It explained that the RMA had been approved and that I didn’t owe them any shipping. That’s in direct contrast to the $30 in shipping that the web page demanded when I entered the RMA. Plus it didn’t explain if they were shipping a box to me or if I had to package it myself. I decided to just sit back and wait.

Tuesday morning I head out for breakfast(I think.) Anyhow, I was heading out and notice a package on my porch. No one had rung the doorbell and instead of sticking the small package inside the screen door it was instead at the lip of the porch. I’m given the impression that DHL didn’t even ring the doorbell. This is my first experience with DHL so I won’t become jaded but it was a bit odd. So I open up the box and package the mini-ipod. But the instructions aren’t clear and the packing material they included was really poorly thought out. Not wanting to void the RMA I used it and dropped it off at the DHL location. Hopefully I’ll get a functioning device soon.

I’m on-call again. Hard to believe it’s already been 4 months. The laptop is acting a little shady so I hope I don’t have issues that make me work from the office all week. Chilli asked me over to his mom’s for Thanksgiving. I’ll be there, with laptop packed in the car in case I get a call.

Other than that not much going on around here. I’m catching up on the Tivo and drinking lots of tea. Would you believe Netflix sent me two Rocky DVDs and they were both cracked? What are the odds?

the 2005 is going to have full MP3 support. That does it. IF I get one, I’m waiting until December for the new model.

Chilli showed me a good deal on a half-gig SD card.  It showed up today so I had to get off my butt and find my mp3 players.  So now I’ve got a Rio Chiba with 300 MB and a Rio S10 with 512 MB.  It’s pretty slick…but I wouldn’t recommend them to anyone else.  They’re USB 1.1 and the file format is propietary so you can’t use a card reader.  They’re a product of my impulse buying and their low cost.  If I’d just bought one mini-ipod then I’d have 4x the capacity and a high transfer rate for the same money.

Anyhow, this will help me get out and do a long run tomorrow.  That can set me up for a long bike ride on Thursday(I might just commute to work again.)