iPod

Looks like my iPod will be with me within the week. I've got a tracking number and everything.

I feel midly jealous of it, because according to the USPS website (www.usps.com - bizzarely enough) it's sitting in the Bronx, NY. Having once been to the Bronx and thoroughly enjoyed the experience, I wouldn't mind switching places with it. All of that being said, the poor thing's surrounded by Postmen/women. So, I'm thankful for small mercies.

Getting the news that it has finally been dispatched has stopped me worrying about when it'll be finally dispatched. Now I'm worrying about;

1. whether it will work ok - battery problems are well known and I've been reading at www.ipodlounge.com about audio problems - a whining noise heard through the head-phones. Of course that could just be the sound middle-class, tube-riding, starbucks cup-clutching, iPod-listeners make when they talk to one another*
2. how much duty I'll have to pay...the storm clouds of VAT etc have been gathering for a week or so - the price has now jumped to £200 (or the $ equavalent; I can't remember the exact amount in $) now that the NY 10% or so sales tax has been added, plus shipping with insurance. As a result I'm saving, oh about...£19 due to choosing to get it sent from America. If I've got to pay duty (and a guy I know recently had to pay £40 in total for 2 t-shirts from Japan...) of any amount up to £19 then I've really screwed myself over with my own impatience. Needless to say guys are punting iPods on eBay from the States for £200 all-in...But I've got to do it the hard way.

*I recognise I'll soon be an iPod owner, and this is not to refer that iPod owners are middle-class whiners, I'm just trying to be ironic or something.

Ok, if anyone wishes to track the progress of my iPod, go to www.usps.com and then track and confirm and enter ED31 7099 991U S

HAVE FUN!