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Posted: Wed May 07, 2008 8:06 am
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Yesterday afternoon, when I got on the bus, I sat with a long time friend and his mother. There was a man on the other side, an older man with a shoulder bag and wearing a sharp looking pinstripe fedora with his tee-shirt and wrinkled khakis.
He immediately started talking to my friend. Eventually, he pulled out a pamphlet. At first, he tried to hand it to me. I just smiled, held up my hand and said, "No thanks."
He gave it to my friend, who reluctantly took it. He then looked at me and asked why I didn’t want one. I was about to tell him why, when he asked, "Are you already saved?"
"Saved enough," I said with a smile.
I probably wouldn't have gotten off so easy if he'd spoken better English, and if I hadn't been saved by the handicapped man who always rides the bus, who dragged me into a conversation about his specific handicap.
This was a rare escape for me. Usually I'm dragged into an overly uncomfortable discussion about God and I end up getting off the bus three stops early. I don't know. I have no problem telling people that I am an atheist. I'm not ashamed. I just get really uncomfortable when people try to talk to me about religion or try to sway me. I always have, even when I was a child.
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Posted: Wed May 07, 2008 9:42 am
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Posted: Wed May 07, 2008 12:30 pm
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Posted: Wed May 07, 2008 2:34 pm
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Posted: Wed May 07, 2008 2:56 pm
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Posted: Wed May 07, 2008 4:52 pm
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Posted: Wed May 07, 2008 7:03 pm
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Posted: Wed May 07, 2008 7:33 pm
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Posted: Thu May 08, 2008 10:25 am
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Sanguvixen Poor thing...why does it keep breaking?
I have an 4 gig Ipod that I bought out of my own money. I baby it because it is as you call it, a nice shield.I have no clue. They just kept breaking.
My first one was a Dell DJ. Dell doesn't even make them anymore. It would freeze and restart for no reason. I ended up unwittingly donating it to a friend who had brain cancer, but survived. I loaned it to him so he'd have tunes to listen to while he was staying for his treatment. I visited him a few times, but they'd moved him to another hospital and he sent it home with his parents so the hospital wouldn't lose it. But I never saw him again after he left the hospital. O_o
My second one was a Creative Zen Vision M. It froze after three months and I couldn't even get it to start up without an error screen. Note to everyone. Creative has Email Only customer Service. Horrible. Wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy becuase each time they respond, it's someone else and it takes 48 hours each time.
My next one was a Zune. Same thing happened. For some reason, my player freezes now. Stanger still, even though I deleted EVERYTHING off the player, it registers that 28 Gigs of space are being used up by something. I don't even have 28 gigs of space on my compuer, much less music, videos or pictures. I can't figure it out and when I called about it, the guy was from India and barely understood me. Thanks Microsoft. I was so put off that I don't want to call again.
Considering that's about $600+ of broken or lost equipment, I've been too scared to buy anything else.
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Posted: Thu May 08, 2008 11:23 am
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Xiporah Sanguvixen Poor thing...why does it keep breaking?
I have an 4 gig Ipod that I bought out of my own money. I baby it because it is as you call it, a nice shield.I have no clue. They just kept breaking.
My first one was a Dell DJ. Dell doesn't even make them anymore. It would freeze and restart for no reason. I ended up unwittingly donating it to a friend who had brain cancer, but survived. I loaned it to him so he'd have tunes to listen to while he was staying for his treatment. I visited him a few times, but they'd moved him to another hospital and he sent it home with his parents so the hospital wouldn't lose it. But I never saw him again after he left the hospital. O_o
My second one was a Creative Zen Vision M. It froze after three months and I couldn't even get it to start up without an error screen. Note to everyone. Creative has Email Only customer Service. Horrible. Wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy becuase each time they respond, it's someone else and it takes 48 hours each time.
My next one was a Zune. Same thing happened. For some reason, my player freezes now. Stanger still, even though I deleted EVERYTHING off the player, it registers that 28 Gigs of space are being used up by something. I don't even have 28 gigs of space on my compuer, much less music, videos or pictures. I can't figure it out and when I called about it, the guy was from India and barely understood me. Thanks Microsoft. I was so put off that I don't want to call again.
Considering that's about $600+ of broken or lost equipment, I've been too scared to buy anything else.
Are you rough with your equipment?
I've had two Ipods so far. A 1 gig that now belongs to my mother. It's amazing it still works.
I have my current one. It's a refurbished thing that I bought at a decent price when Ipod put out a few new things. They stuffed their Nano's aside to be sold off quickly.
I've only ever had a few problems. At one point my first one didn't want to turn off but all I had to do was hook it to the computer and do this button combo thing and then it worked fine.
The only other thing...well...actually that is it. You might try getting an Ipod and see if you can locate an older version of Itunes.
Or you could go for something that is off-brand. Just a little MP3 player that is also a flash-drive. Those things tend to be quite sturdy and well built.
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Posted: Thu May 08, 2008 10:20 pm
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Posted: Fri May 09, 2008 1:52 pm
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Posted: Sat May 10, 2008 2:13 am
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Posted: Mon May 19, 2008 9:54 pm
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Posted: Tue May 20, 2008 8:21 pm
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