Flippy - I Rant, You Read

Tuesday, November 20, 2007

evening

What I’ve Learned from/About My iPod Touch (won at the CLIQ booth at BlogWorld) - Part I

The inside of my left ear is apparently malformed (I’d always been so proud of my cute little ears - my best feature, I thought), as the earbuds that come with iPods brutally push (er, read: lightly touch)  against the cartilage and it hurts.  A LOT!  I knew that the ear canal in my left ear wasn’t as straight as the one in my right ear because I can’t get foam earplugs to stay in my left ear properly.  They don’t expand nicely to block out the noise of you people who live in a daytime world, while I slumber.  The silicone putty works just dandy though, just in case you were worried unnecessarily about my deformed ear canal issues.  I did not know that I had a weird inner ear left ear design.  Intelligent design, my behind!  Anyway, I had to buy new earphones and I was shocked, SHOCKED!, to learn that they can cost as much as $500.  Can you imagine?  Leigh-Ann helped me do lots of research on earbuds/earphones from a variety of companies, from fancy Shure and Sennheiser to JVC, Bose, Etymotic, Philips, Koss, JBuds, V-MODA, and then my head exploded, so I didn’t need earphones anymore.  Actually, I found these Coby Super Bass earbuds and they had pretty terrific reviews for the price.  I figured that $5 earbuds with good reviews were an excellent place to start.  I should be getting them tomorrow.  If they’re good, I’ll buy another pair in case something unforeseen happens to them.  We have cats.  I don’t think I need to elaborate.

the wee hours

Once Upon A Time…

Once upon a time, I went shopping at Michael’s.  They had a sign from Broom Helga’s Flight School, which I thought was very odd.  Generally, as you all probably know, it’s Broom Hilda.  Anyway, my mom, she’s a Helga.  So, I bought one and took it to her.  She liked it, she did.  When your name is Helga in the United States, you don’t find a whole lot of personalized stuff right off the shelf.  In fact, you don’t find any.  She liked the sign so much that she was worried that someone might steal it if she put it outside, so we bought her another one, using a 40% off coupon.  It turns out that even two are not enough when you’re worried about the theft of fine art, so we got her a third.  And now my mom and her flight school will live happily ever after.  Although, with that hairstyle, I’m not sure that we can trust that she’s not one o’ them malcontents.  Flight lessons at your own risk.