Xposted from Buffistechnology, because a lot of iPod owners don't frequent there...

Apple Offers "Free Recycling" of iPods. [link]

Beginning today, customers can bring iPods they no longer want to any of Apple’s 100 retail stores in the US for free environmentally friendly disposal, and those who drop off an iPod, iPod mini or iPod photo will receive a 10 percent discount on the purchase of a new iPod that day.

I read the words, but they don't make sense.

ETA: Hell, anyone who wants to ditch their iPod, let me know...

My joints are being all wobbly this weekend. It's annoying. Also, painful. But really, I'm getting more annoyed at stuff I want to do and can't than actually bothered by the pain. But at least, if this goes with the pattern it usually does, I'll be feeling OK when I'm in Israel. (I'd been concerned about what would happen if I had a flare-up there, but if I'm feeling like this now, then in two weeks, when I'm there, I should be feeling relatively OK.)

but if I'm feeling like this now, then in two weeks, when I'm there, I should be feeling relatively OK

Gee, that's, um, great .

t hands Hil milk and cookies

Question for those who have preordered Harry Potter books: Do the books come on the day they are released or earlier?

They're very careful not to let them get there early, if I recall.

Fay's blog "An Englishwoman in Egypt" seems to have gone away. Did she say she was taking it down?

hands Hil milk and cookies

Yum.

What I'm actually worrying about right now is how to explain my braced ankle to the guy I'm seeing tomorrow. I can't go with my usual "It's a chronic thing" explanation that I use if someone I don't know too well asks, because he's known me for long enough to have seen me without the ankle support before, but a whole explanation seems like too much, and it's not like EDS is common enough that I can just name it and he'll know what it means. (Yeah. I've had these symptoms for like 15 years. I should have figured this stuff out by now.)

Do the books come on the day they are released or earlier?

From what I recall, they usually come either the day they're released or a day or two after -- I think they try for getting there that day, but schedule the delivery stuff so that there's no chance of them getting there early, and that sometimes makes it so they get there a tiny bit late. I could be totally wrong, though -- this is just what I vaguely remember from some friends ordering the last one.

If he even asks, brush it off as an old injury that acts up. You can explain it depth later if you ever get to that point.

Dammit. Book comes out 7/16. Joe and I are on Michigan on 7/15.

Crappity. Must to change shipping address.

You wouldn't even need to call it an injury -- just say "it bothers me sometimes, so I brace it." I find people tend to want to know the details of injuries, because it sounds like there's a little anecdote lurking.