Yesterday I got a call on my cell phone telling me that they had drawn my business card and I had won an iPod Shuffle!
You can bet I ran over to the booth at lunch break and picked that up. It’s a 512MB model (no surprise) but that’s cool none the less.
When I got back to my hotel room I discovered that the USB ports on my laptop are in a location where you can’t plug in a Shuffle all the way! There is stuff in the way. Lame!
I have a USB extension cable at home – fat lot of good that does me now.
So I ran over to Office Depot. Whoa! I’m not paying $28 for a USB extension cable. So I guess I can’t use it until I get home. 🙁
Then today at the show I got not one, but two USB extension cables! Super score! One company was handing out retractable USB cables (pretty cool) and the other one was handing out 128MB flash drives which came with USB cables. Whoopie!
So I’m pulling mp3s off my work computer over the VPN and putting them on my Shuffle. Heh.
But I have to ask: Is it me? Or does iTunes really suck? It seems to hang and crash a bit. (And yes, I upgraded to the latest version.)
Not to mention that I tried to create an account at the iTunes store so I could download my weekly free song and when I tried to use my PayPal account (a new option apparently) it didn’t work. 🙁
Ah well. At least I’ll have music for the plane ride home!
