Away Team DELTA

Go watch it!

My fiance had the place she was renting sold out from under her, so I had to spend the weekend helping her move. I really, really HATE moving.

I had lunch Friday with my fiance, and dragged her into the Apple store in Tyson's Corner to see if they had any of the new ipod shuffles. I looked around the store, and didn't see any. Plenty of ipod mini's, and regular ipod's, even U2's limited edition ipod; but no shuffles. I was about to leave the store when I saw a lady at the counter actually buying one! Turns out they had just got them in and they were behind the counter and going like hot cakes; so naturally I jumped in line and bought a 512mb model! (It was payday, after all.) I have been exptremely pleased with it. I belong to audible.com, and listen to a lot of audio books and this baby is just the ticket! I can fit three un-abridged audio books on it with a little room to spare. Since it's so small I can plug the ear buds in and drop it down the front of my shirt using the lanyard and only the earphones stick out a bit! I haven't used it in the gym yet but I expect it (and I) will get a workout tonight!

Turns out I have two of the three brake lights on my car out. Couldn't do anything about it Sunday nite, so Monday after work (in a snowstorm!) I hit the auto parts store and buy the needed bulbs. Now the fun begins! Naturally they are almost impossible to get to within the tail-light fixture. After much grumbling I get them replaced and move on to the "spoiler" light. You need a screwdriver at some crazy angle to get to the screws, but eventually I get them off. Slip out the fixture, unscrew the bulb-holder and it won't come out because the bulb is somehow too big for the hole! I had to actually break the bulb into pieces to get it out, then I had the wrong bulb to replace it. (I checked the book when I purchased the bulbs to make sure I had the right ones for my make, model and year.) Fortuantely a friend of mine runs the gas station around the corner and he had a couple of bulbs on hand. So three bucks later and at least a half hour of screwing around with the fixture to get it back in and I now have brake lights! [This is the point where I rant about those idiot designers who thought up the configuration for the fixtures that are so difficult to get to for something as trivial as changing a bulb.]