on the bright side...

I lost my iPod. Maybe it was stolen. Maybe not. Hard to say. All I know is I don't have one and therefore I have no tunes at work. I don't even want a new one. The touch one doesn't do anything for me at that price and only 16GB. The classic one is bigger, I think, and likely cheaper than mine was, but keeping mine would have been free. Shelling out for a newer cheaper one is not free. Hence the grumbling sound you hear in this post.

I also lost my free access to Mathematica. OK yes that is a total geek then, but then again who else actually joins the MAA for fun? I'm not sure there are many of us hobbyists in the organization. I do it for the periodicals and the little oh boy am I a geek card in my wallet. Mathematica is this super huge piece of software that costs thousands of dollars. I had a complimentary copy (of which there isn't any need to discuss how I got that.) which expired end of last month. There is no way I could justify actually buying it as I only play with it. If you look at my all consuming right now you see a Matrix Operations book. I was just doing the homework with it as I went through the book. Yeah.

Oh you were looking for the bright side? I have a new box of tic-tacs freshmint. That's the bright side.