Hell Hath Frozen Over

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That’s right. That’s an order confirmation page. And the order is for my new MacBook and iPod Shuffle. Join me as I ring in the new year of 2005!

AND, almost as important as the fact that I finally joined the 21st century, is the fact that I saved $41.73 in the process too! Sweet.

The other night I mentioned to someone that there was a state employee discount for Apple, and they told me they thought there should be a student discount too. So today I checked; and sure enough, along with the student discount there’s a faculty/staff/administrative discount for my venerable institution as well. Huzzah!

So, ever the obsessive compulsive (I prefer “thorough”) shopper that I am, I went and did 2 separate shopping carts to see which discount was more effective. 1 had the state discount, and the other used the institution discount. Turns out that after the sales tax is added in, the latter was cheaper overall.

Now I have to sit and wait impatiently until my mechanical babies arrive via a big, brown stork. I guess while I’m waiting, I should probably go ahead and look into getting DSL or something at the hizzy. That way it’s more secure and I don’t have to mooch off neighbors’ wireless accounts. Much.

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I’ve already gone and picked out names for ‘em too. I was thinkin’ “Soundwave” for the iPod and “Caprica” for the MacBook. You know, cool names so they won’t get beat up on the electric playground or anything.