Vale, little pink iPod
Oct. 11th, 2006 10:04 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
katiefooleryMy iPod just died. In the blink of an eye. I’m still in shock.
It’s just so sudden. Yesterday, it was working fine. It kept me sane on the two bus trips and one train trip home, faithfully playing music to distract me from the ennui that is public transport. Then, tragedy struck. I pulled it out of my bag this morning to wake it up (it insists I wake it up each day, to remind it that it exists or something...) and there was no response, despite the battery being half-full when I put it away yesterday afternoon.
So I went to charge it. Usually, if I charge it for ten minutes or so, it will remember that yes, I do have half a charged battery left! What luck! Stupid thing...
Not today.
Today, nothing happened when I connected the charger. No happy little Apple symbol on the screen, no industrious little charging animation.
Just a blank screen and a Buneater staring in dismay.
“Er,” I said to the empty room. Then I glared at the power point. “I bet this is your fault!”
So I took the charger to another power point and met with a similar lack of response from my little pink iPod.
This time, I glared at the charger. “I bet this is your fault, then!” I told it. “I’m going to plug this into the USB on my computer and then we’ll see.” Because talking to inanimate objects makes me feel better when things are going wrong...
I did just what I’d told the charger I’d do but nothing happened. No sudden awakening from the iPod and no little alert from my computer. In an act of desperation, I loaded up iTunes and went to my iPod preferences menu, only to be told there was No iPod attached, despite all physical evidence to the contrary.
And now I have to face a life without music on the way home. For the next two days at least, I’ll be sitting at bus stops and riding trains with no music to distract me from the boredom of it all. It’s just tragic. Especially when I spent much of yesterday afternoon’s trip home planning a new playlist. Not to mention the fun I’ve been having making up silly music videos in my head to go with the songs as I listen to them.
It’s even more depressing than the time I had to bid farewell to my elephant head slippers.
Gods dammit, this means I’m going to have to get out my notebook and actually write something in it, doesn’t it?
It’s just so sudden. Yesterday, it was working fine. It kept me sane on the two bus trips and one train trip home, faithfully playing music to distract me from the ennui that is public transport. Then, tragedy struck. I pulled it out of my bag this morning to wake it up (it insists I wake it up each day, to remind it that it exists or something...) and there was no response, despite the battery being half-full when I put it away yesterday afternoon.
So I went to charge it. Usually, if I charge it for ten minutes or so, it will remember that yes, I do have half a charged battery left! What luck! Stupid thing...
Not today.
Today, nothing happened when I connected the charger. No happy little Apple symbol on the screen, no industrious little charging animation.
Just a blank screen and a Buneater staring in dismay.
“Er,” I said to the empty room. Then I glared at the power point. “I bet this is your fault!”
So I took the charger to another power point and met with a similar lack of response from my little pink iPod.
This time, I glared at the charger. “I bet this is your fault, then!” I told it. “I’m going to plug this into the USB on my computer and then we’ll see.” Because talking to inanimate objects makes me feel better when things are going wrong...
I did just what I’d told the charger I’d do but nothing happened. No sudden awakening from the iPod and no little alert from my computer. In an act of desperation, I loaded up iTunes and went to my iPod preferences menu, only to be told there was No iPod attached, despite all physical evidence to the contrary.
And now I have to face a life without music on the way home. For the next two days at least, I’ll be sitting at bus stops and riding trains with no music to distract me from the boredom of it all. It’s just tragic. Especially when I spent much of yesterday afternoon’s trip home planning a new playlist. Not to mention the fun I’ve been having making up silly music videos in my head to go with the songs as I listen to them.
It’s even more depressing than the time I had to bid farewell to my elephant head slippers.
Gods dammit, this means I’m going to have to get out my notebook and actually write something in it, doesn’t it?
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on 2006-10-11 03:10 am (UTC)This morning my coffee machine did much the same thing :( It's also about 18 months old!
I'm so sorry for your loss...
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on 2006-10-11 04:02 am (UTC)It's a sad day for beloved appliances, it seems.