Headphones and release dates
Yesterday, while doing some yardwork I managed to take the hedge trimmers to my headphones cord. This allowed me to become reacquainted with the crappy ipod buds at the gym. I realized that they were a slightly different design from the ones I have left over from the other two ipods we’ve bought over the years. They actually seem to fall out of my ears easier, though I didn’t think a thing was possible.
This morning I plugged them into my Macbook to listen to music while I worked… and found that they didn’t reach. I had an old pair on hand for some reason (’it seemed like a good idea at the time’ is all I can come up with), so I compared the two. The new model is inexplicably about six inches shorter. I guess that’s nice when you’re jogging, but I like a little extra cord. Except for when it gets sucked into the blades of lawn equipment, I suppose.
I checked Target for new headphones tonight, though I didn’t get anything because I didn’t really trust any of them. While I was there I decided I would also like ten free dollars. It’s a good thing I’m an honest person, because the case containing a ton of 3 and 12 month Live subscriptions and 1600 point cards was sitting wide open. I took two for myself, but there was nothing stopping me from taking a handful, going somewhere isolated and writing down the codes.
I also was looking to pick up Wii Fit, because Elizabeth asked if we were going to get it and there has to be some law somewhere prohibiting a guy from passing up on buying a video game when he has spousal approval. I didn’t see any in the case that would contain their Wiis if they ever had any, so I asked an employee.
‘No, but we’ll have them tomorrow morning. They’re in the back, but we can’t sell them yet.’
‘Oh, did it not come out yet?’ (I really haven’t been paying attention)
‘No, it did, but Target has some weird policies. We open at 8 tomorrow, though. We only have 13, so plan accordingly.’
Apparently their policy is ‘We aren’t a fan of money.’ I have planned accordingly; by the time they open I’ll have left the country.
(That would sound so much cooler if it weren’t just a half hour drive to Canada from my house)