The Adnostic

Despite my cold and unfeeling exterior, it seems that I have developed a soft spot for bunnies. Who knew?

My first inkling was when I went gaga for the Bunny Letter Opener....

Then as I was completing my holiday shopping today I found a retailer displaying Kozyndan bunny posters, and I went into covet overdrive....

The Japanese woodblock influence! The bunnies! The colors! The bunnies! I was clearly overwhelmed with cuteness and have consequently found my Achilles Heel. Please use this information for good instead of evil.

On the eve of The Zen Master's arrival for my birthday he made me close my eyes and placed a box in my hands. I knew exactly what it was before I even opened my eyes. He gave me a Nano. A little white Nano. I finally have an iPod of my very own! (Take that technologically inept mother who only listens to talk radio and the Spawn of Satan.) ZM was then showered with praise and kisses for his good gifting.

So now I have a Nano to take running with me and I love it. It's much easier to go farther and not concentrate on how much more you have left to go while you're listening to music. Except for that first time I used it and I was trying to power trough the final uphill part of my run and it shuffled to Etta James' "Sunday Kind of Love." Not exactly helpful, but the Ditty Bops version of "Bye Bye Love" puts a surprising happy spring in my step. Who knew?

Then comes the accessories. I bought the armband, of course, and one of my friends gave me a cute little felt pouch from Boy Girl Party that is the perfect size for all my Nano stuff, and now it's time to covet all the other niceties for my little white wonder.

1) I'm going to need extra battery power and plug in capability for my trip to Marbella (TSA permitting).

2) You can't expect me not to personalize this thing, and once it has a Gellaskin with a Japanese woodblock print motif it shall be so.

3) Because I use it running, how can I not be tempted by the Nike Sport Kit iPod widget? It may be only $30, but the special Nike shoes with the little widget hole would set me back another $150. Um, maybe for my birthday next year.

ZM to the rescue once again. He pointed me to this blog post on how to make any shoe compatible with the Nike Sport Kit widget. How can I not love a man who lets me exercise my geekiness and my frugal Jewish-ness?

Ha ha ha ha ha! I foiled the grand ecommerce plot against my getting the red Crumpler Considerable Embarrassment bag! That bag is mine! All mine! Within a week's time I will have a brand new, bright red messenger bag with a padded interior pouch for my 14" Apple iBook. I am a cunning genius, I tell you! A diabolical mastermind!

You may ask how I managed such a feat with the odds so clearly against me, and a truly diabolical person would not tell you. Alas, I am not so diabolical, so I will tell you.

Impressed? No? Well fooey! You should be! In a digital world filled with emails and online transactions, who would have thought using such a Jurassic technology, like "the phone," would be the answer? Me! That's who!

I called Crumpler and told them that I was quite perturbed by their little hand flipping me the little bird and wondered when this bag would actually be available. They told me that the bag was indeed available and that the little hand was actually an issue with the link and that they would be happy to take my order over "the phone." Apparently "the phone" operators were unaware of the grand ecommerce conspiracy and I was not about to do something as foolish as alert them to it's presence.

I am triumphant at last! I will arrive at SXSW in true geek style!

I want a new laptop bag*. What I wouldn't give to not have to take my crappy clunky aluminum case to conferences, or be able to switch out the Dell laptop bag that comes with the company loaner for something that doesn't scream, "I am carrying an expensive computer chock full or corporate secrets and passwords! Please steal me!" It would also be nice to walk into a meeting with our larger clients on their home turf with something that has a little more style than black nylon. Nothing says "I have no imagination" like black nylon.

Face it people, a laptop bag is the new power accessory. Right up there with the Palm Treo, a Mac PowerBook, and a Video iPod. Me? I have no power, but a little extra armor would be swell.

Then Shinny Shinny turns me on to Talene Reilly and I am enthralled. I see the Reese model in wine flannel and I go into serious coveting mode. Look at it! Can you blame me?

Sure, I wouldn't be able to put stickers on it, but who would want to ruin a perfectly good design like that?

*notice I didn’t say “need”

There are a few things about San Francisco I'm not all that crazy about. The scary Ride Your Bike to Work Day Riots are a little over the top, and the going rent is enough to make me think that a refrigerator box outside of Sears is the next best thing to the Ritz.

But then there are a few things that make me think it would all be worthwhile. The live music clubs, the amazing swing dancers who keep me on my feet until dawn, the architecture, the quirky art scene, and lets not forget the food!
Now I have another reason to be jealous of people who live in the City by the Bay. My favorite t-shirt designer is having a sample sale.

Buy a Ninja Kitty T for me!