iPods, Beer, & Movies

Have you ever had one of those Monday morning's in which you were trying to recall your weekend, and realize that you did way too much? This morning is like that for me. Living in the crappy town that I do, it is completely gray, cloudy, rainy and not warm, and so I think back to the weekend for the fun things A and I did.

Friday was a pretty cool day. I finally gave in and took the iPod dive. I have to say, it is quite trendy and I usually don't go for things of this sort, but the iPod is a lot of fun. I got it at the Apple store, which is completely neat. They have all the Mac notebooks, iPods and iPod minis, some flat screen monitors that are two and three times the size of my TV screen, and a bevy of accessories for the iPod and Macs in general. I think one of the reasons the iPod is so cool is that there are so many cool things you can buy to make the little machines do anything you want. Their marketing scheme was working on me, hell I wanted to buy a docking station, a little transmitter-ma-jig to make it play on my car radio, a set of Bose speakers to plug it into at the house, and this, and that, and oh this too, and wouldn't this be cool, and now I have no money and I'm living in a trash can....with my iPod. **Warning---To all of you out there who are considering an iPod purchase, don't fall for the ol' "your iPod won't work unless you have a USB 2.0 connection." Mine works fine and I don't have USB 2.0, and it really is NOT THAT SLOW***

Enough about the little contraption; Friday night I got off of work around 9:30, went home & picked up A, changed clothes, went to the bar, ate dinner and drank beer. Not a bad day all in all, except that work interfered with my life.

Saturday was one of those days which by the time I did wake up, piddled on the computer, and basically did nothing for a few hours, I realized it was a beautiful day outside, almost sixty, and it was high time to get outside. So, I took A back to the Apple store....I know, it's terrible. After ogling for a minute we headed downtown and drank beer at one of my favorite bars for a couple of hours. I noticed a new style that I cannot take part in. What's up with all the guys wearing either bright multi-colored sweaters with crazy designs or brown blazers? I guess I'm just not a stylish guy if that's what it takes. I saw a guy wearing a bright blue sweater with a big Panda stitched right there on his belly. Then there was a group of three guys who came in all wearing brown blazers, every last damn one of 'em. (I'm starting to sound like Joan Rivers, I'll shut up) After the beer drinking and sweater watching we went to see the new movie "Hitch." It's hilarious, and you can get away with calling it a "chick flick" for the you-owe-me-one-violence-and-car chase-guy movie.

Sunday we went to this authentic Mexican restaurant that has been around for nearly thirty years, it was DELICIOUS. Some of the best Mexifood I've ever had, and I eat a lot. Sunday night A got this brilliant idea to rent a movie friends of hers had been raving about. It was awful. "Napoleon Dynamite" doesn't even deserve to be called a movie. They should show it in little bits and pieces on Nickolodeon so that no one has to endure such torture. I got about thirty minutes into it and started diddling on the computer.

So now it's Monday morning and like I said, I did too much. Sorry 'bout that one for all my impatient readers. If you made it through this whole mess drop me a line and any iPod tips, hints, and accessories would be appreciated.