O in Boots

I went out and bought a pair of boots this weekend. I think I approve so far. It probably wouldn't be so bad if it weren't for the fact that I then went out and bought a bunch more clothes. Now, that wouldn't be so bad if it weren't for the fact that the reason I bought those clothes is because "so I would have more nice stuff to wear during the week at work." That was the official reason at least. Unofficially, most of the stuff I bought I either wouldn't or can't wear at work, so that kind of fell through. The jeans were a good addition though. At least something I purchased was legit. I guess even that wouldn't be so bad if it weren't for the fact that I'm supposed to be saving money to pay off some credit card bills from Robert's overly expensive (for me at least) wedding. Between me and my date I think we spent about $2k. Ouch, I know right. At least we looked good.

I would feel more justified in making these expenditures if it turned out I went out more often. As it stands I only find myself going out like four or five times a month, so perhaps this venture is a tad over invested. My friends don't really like going out that much, and maybe that's the problem. I'm thinking I might just need to meet a few new people to tip things a little bit more in the opposite direction.

Hmm, so I've finally taken to posting at The Candy Coating. Since my partner in not-quite-a-crime seems to have gotten himself married and fell off the face of the earth. I think this mean TCC might be taking a bit of a different tone. Where my compatriot is thoughtful and reverent, I am a bit more bold and edgy. Not because I'm trying to be bold and edgy, that just happens to be the way I think. You should have seen it coming though, my hairs all spiky now, I'm totally a rebel. Watch out!

Apple is Stupid...

Useless innovations are awesome. Take for instance the ability to purchase music on your iPhone. Because companies can't get over their desire to make more money than they are currently making, you are not able to purchase music via Edge or 3G AT&T networks. This means you can only purchase on wifi. Now for me personally, the only time I'm on wifi is when I'm at home. Last time I checked, I had a few computers in my house, so I'm not sure why I need the ability to purchase music via wifi on my iPhone. Oh I know, I can hear you now, "but Orion, purchasing music over wifi means you don't have to get up from your couch to go to the computer." And I would agree with you if it weren't for one small detail about how the iPhone works. The iPhone does not work in "disk mode." This means that you have to sync the iPhone. This means that your iPhone can only be associated to one computer. Now, as silly as that is, suppose you were managing your music manually on a computer and you import some 400 songs from a different iPod. Now you want to transfer these 400 songs to your iPhone, but you don't feel like hunting them out one at a time, so you hit sync. Now, suppose that this sync erases your whole freakin iPhone song list before transferring. Now consider for a moment that you think this will be okay because your iPhone has been backed up on your laptop, but in reality, the albums you purchased via wifi were not backed up and are now lost. Now consider that this has happened at least twice and you've lost a minimum of $40 worth of music and the same album at least twice. I would imagine that you might draw a similar conclusion that iTunes is stoopid. Why exactly is it necessary for their sync to be so asinine. How hard would it be for it to automatically transfer your purchases to your computer before wiping everything out. Yes it warns me, but still, why is it even an option to blow away the items you've purchased? When is that the desired result? That's just bad engineering. Bah! Oh Apple your products are soooo sexy yet so silly sometimes, it's like the whole company has gone blonde.