No no, thank YOU
The unbelievable folks at St. Thomas got together and got me a 200 dollar gift certificate to the Apple Store. I was absolutely blown away by this birthday gift (earlier in May), and jumped at the chance to get the music player that my ears have always dreamt of. They wrote:
We love you Alex - thanks so much fo all your help & for being so so great!! We know you really want/NEED an ipod - here’s a start! We all owe you our computer’s lives! Happy Birthday! - you are the BEST!
- Elise, Emily, Emily, Jordan, Kim, Dan, Ryan, & Tony
Guys and girls, you are the ones who are so so great - I never thought twice about patching up your compy’s after Internet Explorer decided to be a really really crappy browser. Computers can be a handful to maintain sometimes, but I like to be a good neighbor and it was my pleasure to delete the bad and restore the good. I had the time, and sometimes I knew what to do (only sometimes, many times I ad-libbed it and just acted like I knew what was going on).
If you’re wondering owning an iPod is exactly how I imagined it. The fidelity is incredible, the usability unparalled, the fit and finish astouding, and the ease of making a playlist on-the-go unexpectedly easy. There wasn’t much I hadn’t expected after reading ipodlounge.com for … many many months, although I must admit I ignored the install cd assuming iTunes would work with the iPod right away, which was a mistake. So, use the CD when you get an iPod. By the way, definitely get a case from Burning Love, the best iPod cases that you will find. Mykala got me one for my birthday (it matches her other amazing gift - a huge CordaRoy’s sack of foam perfectly!).
I must admit, I felt genuinely appreciated and affirmed and warm and fuzzy inside - you know how they say “what goes around comes around”? Well, that is, in my experience, completely true.