Standing On Boxes

The title to the red car. All paid up. Yeah! Now if only the ‘warrantee resellers’ would stop calling me! I bought it used from a wholesaler w/97K miles on it. Never had a warranty on it in the first place.

• Sony has this little gadget they sell for iPods. The TMR-BT8iP – A Bluetooth adapter. (Nope, the touch has no Bluetooth. Only the iPhone has that.) Uses the iPod dock port and gets power from the iPod (We’ll see how that affects the iPod battery) It works with the touch though it isn’t listed.
  Nothing fancy – a button and a blue light that flashes occasionally. And warnings in the user manual about power drainage. Apparently it is always on. Even if you use regular headphones. So – unplug it when not in use.

• So… I needed bluetooth headphones to use with it. The only thing Best Buy had (other than a Logitech headset/bluetooth adapter for generic MP3 players was another Sony gadget. The DR-BT22 (Actually a headset (includes a microphone and a bunch of other features for use with other Bluetooth gadgets like a phone or stereo – I wonder if it’ll work with the PS3?), not just headphones. Used a coupon. Works great – so far. Battery life is a question (And the unique battery charger that isn’t meant to travel (the plugs don’t fold back -ouch!))
  Other than that… like the iPod adapter, it uses lights to communicate so pairing it with my iPod and Powerbook was “interesting”. But it works. I’m using it now. When used with an ‘audio device’ you can skip/fast forward songs or reverse. And the sound is controlled by the headphones not iPod.

• Found an iPod case. The style I wanted (a ‘flip-case’ like the one for my Nano) BUT it has an orange stripe running along it length-wise. Very UT. And the inside leather is also orange. Makes it feel less fragile. The same manufacturer had one without the ‘flip-lid’.
  Cost more than I wanted to pay because it came with something else. But that was the only way to get it.

Okay…. the lens (not as flimsy as reviews had indicated.) and UV filter showed up on Tuesday (Surprise!) One from PA, the other from Kentucky. The UV Filter suffered damage during shipping due to a manufacturing defect (the ring that help the glass in place wasn’t seated properly so it was loose and got chipped. Amazon overnighted a replacement to me and I sent the bad one back. They must have lost money on that one. It was only a $10 filter. But that kind of service did make up for the weirdness in the shipping.
The camera bag showed up on Wednesday. Very nice. Small. But more than enough room for my stuff. Only issue — it is designed for a DSLR with a long/zoom lens attached. It’s a little top-heavy with the 50mm lens attached. Need to figure something out there.

Just catching up on tv episodes on the DVR

• 3 episodes of “Private Practice” (Still watching it. But only because I can DVR it. Way too many commercials (for other ABC shows) to watch it “live”.
  • The one where Addison buys a shower massage gadget. And has to deal with a conflict of interest thanks to Naomi and Sam’s daughter Maya.
  • Charlotte shows up looking for an insomnia cure.
  • AKA ‘Addison has pizza’ and ‘Don’t taunt the pregnant lady with the gun!’
• 3 episodes of “Bones”
  • Halloween episode. Booth expresses his ‘clown fear’ (Fic idea – Maybe Booth isn’t Angel reincarnated. Maybe he’s Xander? And he looks like Angel – sort of – because when the reincarnation opportunity came along – Xander thinks Buffy wants someone who looks like Angel?)
  • Somebody kills an intern at the Jeffersonian. Unhappy squints as a result.
  • The retro computing episode – Some computer wiz gets killed and stuffed into his high school class time capsule.
• 3 episodes of “Torchwood” (still watching – 1 to go.)
  • Suzie comes back from the dead. Poor Gwen. (And what was with the “Hex” commercial? Scenes from the 2nd series that I missed?)
  • Eugene had a glass eye… and Gwen wanted to know what happened… (And this is the 3rd episode in a row (??) with Gwen’s boyfriend missing. Or does she still have a boyfriend after the whole Own thing several episodes back?)
  • ??

Not really in the mood for details. So copied them from something I wrote elsewhere.