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iPod Drama
I had a little drama and a wonderful reunion with an old friend today, affectionately called my ancient iPod. For the long version of the story, click the cut. Short version is courtesy of mah sissy.

Teh Short:
iPod: Hey man, what's up?
iTunes: Hey.... Do I know you?
iPod: Yeah man I've just been y'know, LOCKED AWAY AND FORGOTTEN IN A DRAWER OF DESPAIR FOR LIKE TWO YEARS.
iTunes: That's harsh bro.
iPod: I know. So I've been a little emo since then.
iTunes: I feel ya man.
iPod: I suppose anyone would.
iTunes: No man I feel you. We're like connected now.
iPod: No shit?
iTunes: No shit.
iPod: Wow. Maybe I won't be such a dick to my neglectful owner now.
iTunes: Word.

Teh Long:
Sooooo I have this nice little 20G iPod that hasn't worked for about a year now. It'll be three years old next Christmas.

It's rather old for an iPod and I had sort've given up on it. It's been in a drawer for the better part of two years. I took it to college with me next year hoping to fix it/mess around with it and never got around to it.

I never got a new one because I'm rather affectionate of the little black one I have. I didn't get to use it enough when I could've and now that I have a car I bought a stereo for it that works with mp3 players and always meant to use my iPod with it.

But it was old. Frail. Tired in it's elderly days. I would plug it into my computer and it would keep sleeping and my computer wouldn't recognize it. iTunes would remain blissfully unaware.

Tonight Wicky-chan and I happened to be talking about iPods and I randomly decided to bring mine out. I plugged it into my comp and it happily kept snoring.

Wicky then suggested I threaten it. Apparently she has threatened hers (named Rufus) that she would upgrade to a Sephiroth if it didn't behave.

No sooner had she typed the word Sephiroth than I nearly jumped out of my seat at a sudden beeping near my hand.

I looked down at my iPod. It sounded like an alarm clock going off. Then the screen read, "Do not Disconnect. Connecting with computer..."

I stared in disbelief only to have my computer beep a moment later. "Found new Hardware!" It informed me happily. "Ipod!" These were words I had not seen in years, words I thought would never again grace my eyes.

I squeed with joy and disbelief and was about to get up and dance when...

iPod fell back asleep.

"Lost hardware during installation," My computer told me solemnly.

My hopes dashed, my head met my keyboard and I wept at the irony.

Wicky-chan pointed out that the iPod was probably just being emo. I explained that it had been in hibernation for a long time, snug in it's little leather cover, and simply would take some time waking up. Wicky informed me that no, it was just sulking because I had neglected it in a drawer for so long.

Not to be discouraged, I waited. After a few moments Wicky helpfully typed "SEPHIROTH! SEPHIROTH!" for display on my screen again.

iPod groggily cracked an eye open and my computer chimed to tell me it had found hardware again.

Holding my breath and crossing my fingers, I was pleasantly surprised when iTunes popped up in an exhuberant manner and asked if I would like to update my iPod now.

I looked for the "HELL YES WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU WAITING FOR" button, but had to settle for the "Continue" button instead.

It started loading. Glory Hallelujah, my iPod was back from the dead!

I could tell it was rather sleepy and groggy and very unhappy with me, and it fell back asleep again about halfway through the loading. (I had two years of songs for it to catch up on.) This time though, it yawned and told me it needed to be charged before it would stay awake for a longer amount of time.

iPod is now plugged into my wall and snuggled in it's recharging slumber and I hopefully await the results. Here's hoping it doesn't hate me~



Updates tomorrow on iPod Drama. Stay tuned.