Newness!

I got a new MP3 player last friday.  My old one was an old 1 gig flashdrive style player and it stopped recharging a while ago.  I bought this one for $79 and it has 8 gigs on it!  Pretty good considering an 8 gig Ipod Nano costs $238 NZD!  The first thing my older brother said when I showed it to him was “why didn’t you get an Ipod?  This player is way more annoying to use!”  At this point all I can say is I’m broke, my “budget advisor” wouldn’t have let me spend more than $100 and considering what my old mp3 player was this one is a vast improvement.  The touch controls are a bit annoying.  They don’t work when you always want them to then you accidentally do things you don’t want (like making the book your reading on it scroll through at 1 page per second).  The USB connection to the computer is fairly straight forward but it doesn’t seem to be all that reliable.  I had to disconnect then reconnect the cable several times while loading my music onto it.

Beggers can’t be choosers I guess.

BTW my brothers used all our internet up.  My older brother had forgotten to disable some big downloads he had going and my younger brother is a youtube freak.  He has no grasp of how big youtube files are.  I ended up giving mum $20 to cover any extra usage of mine because once we go over our data cap (40 gig, I hear the shocked gasps out there but consider this is a house where all 5 members use the internet and 3 are computer geeks…) we pay $20 per gig.  It resets in 9 days but I dunno if I could wait that long to go without.