> Orgy - Eva
> Depeche Mode - World In My Eyes
> Daft Punk - Superheroes

I’m ever so close to being able to buy my powerbook (woot!) so I’ve been trying to decide exactly how much it’s going to cost me to get everything up and running.

Powerbook itself - $1500 for 12-inch or $2100 for the 15-inch

firewire 5.1 thingy - $99

video input/output system (not really necessary until I want to start doing video editing)- $200

160GB firewire 800/USB 2.0 external hard drive - $190

carrying case - $40 or so

cigarette lighter power inverter - $40

flat panel display (not really necessary right now) - $250 or so, but with prices falling so fast I’ll buy this last. I already have an 18″ viewable CRT monitor to use in the interim.

So basically I need to save up. Grr. The only reason I’m contemplating this so intensely is becuase I have no idea how much it’ll cost to fix my car. My whole future technological world is thrown into chaos with that darn car costing me money. I think the next step is to get that external hard drive, then I can copy all my files off of my computer when I format it before I sell it. I’ve decided on this one:

It’s black and sexy.

I don’t know how I would use up the combined 330GB of my laptop and this device, but it’s always good to be prepared. I want to take my DVD collection with me wherever I go, I think that would be the best way. At 4GB/movie, I could take sixty or so DVDs with me. That would be cool. I really must do something constructive with my time. I must STOP window shopping at technology websites. But what’s the point? I have to consume myself with desire for something.

Oh huh, I don’t think my dad got the mail today. Maybe I got my movie! I will brave the cold to go out and see.

Nope, there was nothing…but while I was walking through the garage the pump turned on and scared the shit out of me. That was fun. God, I really need to do something. Something that doesn’t involve ogling computers. Well, I did read another chapter in The Medium Is The Message and in A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genious. That’s something. SHIT! I MISSED FAMILY GUY! GRR.

Well, I guess I’ll just keep saving up my money and hope that I can eventually afford the 15″ PowerBook. I just realized that it has a 1.67GHz processor instead of the 1.5GHz that’s on the 12″ PowerBook. So that’s sweet. And it has a screen with the aspect ratio for watching movies and such. Oh, I can’t wait! I could be lying around in my bed surfing the web and blogging wirelessly. Oh yeah, that’s what I forgot to add to the list:

AirPort Extreme: $175

Oh god, I’ve reached a new low: I just watched the iPod Shuffle ad on Apple.com. I need something to do. I’m realizing that I’ve bought into this whole iPod Volkswagen and Starbucks culture, but I feel like I’m too old. I can just see the trust fund kid friends of my dreams going “Omg…you listen to ____?” That’s so 90s. I left Josh a message. He didn’t call back. He’s probably penetrating Kayla’s vagina right now. I feel poor. I dream of a frivolous life where I could lounge around in cafes, sipping mochas and working on novels on my laptop. But no. There will never be such frivolity. I’ll just sit in my crappy room in some crappy apartment trying to get Blogger to work because it’s the only outlet for what I think. I lost my chap stick, the cap sits here taunting me. Maybe it’s under my chair. Nope.

Look at this crap, this is from the description of the iPod:

“Imagine: you could fly from New York to Paris and still have hours of listening time left over as you stroll the Champs Elysées.”

I WANT TO STROLL THE CHAMPS ELYSÉES! GRR! EVIL FATE!

Maybe I should be saving up my money to leave this place instead of to buy a laptop. Oh well. A slavish devotion to technology is my character flaw. At least I can admit it. Shit. I have to go to sleep. I shouldn’t have taken a nap when I got home.