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So…as you can see from my last post I purchased (with the help of my grandmother) the iPod Touch.

One of the main deciding reasons for this was the wide variety of applications available for it. One in particular I like, however, is WordPress.

The Wordpress application allows you to post to your blog just as if you were in the admin panel itself. In fact, I’m posting from my iPod this very second!

I will be blogging more about other applications (free and paid) that I recommend for the iPod / iPhone.

I plan on getting rid of my iPhone — and this was a hard decision for me.  Besides a few issues with the plan itself, there are several issues I have with the phone itself.  This is especially odd coming from me, since I generally love Apple products.  However I feel with the iPhone they could have added a lot more than they did.  However, that is for an entirely different blog post.

In order to replace the iPod function of the iPhone, I decided I will be buying a new iPod.  However I cannot decide whether I want to purchase an iPod Touch or an iPod Nano.

The iPod Touch has its advantages and disadvantages.  It has support for applications, as well as being touch.  The Wi-Fi and ability to surf the Internet is a major plus, especially when I cannot be bothered to drag out the MacBook.  However I’m wondering whether or not these features would be used frequently enough to justify the extra $150 I would spend to get this iPod.

The iPod Nano also has its advantages and disadvantages.  It doesn’t have applications or a web browser like the touch, however it is small and highly portable (this is also considering I would be using it in my car, where the iPhone currently takes up a lot of space).  It would get better battery life due to not having such a large screen, and I could get a larger storage space for a smaller price compared to the Touch.

Now, which one do I pick?  COMMENT!

Update: I chose the iPod Touch for the reason that I may want to use it for videos in the future, as well as all of the applications it has available to it.

Let me give you a day in the life of a Dietary Aide who works in Dining Room and Dish Loading.

4:30 - You’re walking in the door and getting your cart ready.  You find that for some reason, the AM lunch shift failed yet again to restock your carts and left the cooler in disarray.  Nice.

4:45 - You are now in the dining room, getting the hall carts ready by placing a water and a coffee on each.  It is at this time that you realize no coffee has been made, no filters are to be found, and the coffee dispenser is empty.

5:00 - You are now serving residents.  You get frustrated with those who do not speak, or those who have a conversation with you about what the food is, when you only serve drinks.  You realize half way through that you’re out of orange juice — but the juice machine is broken so you have to go downstairs.  You may also find you are out of cups, thanks again AM dietary.

5:45 - You are done serving residents, and are cleaning your carts up.  You find that the person on CL (Cleaning) has yet again taken both spray-bottles of cleaner.  You then try to find something as a substitute, but you get yelled at for using the wrong stuff.  Nice.

5:55 - You go to get LEAD.  You smell like dirty diapers.  End of story.

6:15 - You are bussing tables.  You try to figure out what half of the stuff you are dumping in the slop bucket is, but yet it eludes you.  You spill nectar milk on the floor, and whoever is on CL (Cleaning) gets angry.  That’s what you get for taking both spray bottles

6:40 - You are washing up the dishes and the hall carts, and you have dishes stacking up before your eyes.  The dishwasher beeps every 5 minutes for more detergent, even though it has a full bottle.  If you happen to be working with Paola that day, you are scraping food off the plates.  You get plates sent back because Paola fails to do her job.  You get very wet, your gloves rip, and you just dropped a fork in the garbage disposal.

7:10 - You just finished the dishwashing, and proceed to clean up your areas.  You turn off the dishwasher and go to get towels.  Oh look, there are no towels to drain the dish washing excess water.  You try and clean out your dishwasher trays… and you just got sprayed in the ass with water by DR1.  Gee, thanks.  You also just dropped one of the catch trays into the hot water and burn your hand getting it back up.  Nice.

7:20 - CLOCK OUT!

I do have to say… something funny did happen today.  My friend Drea was doing DR1 and she dropped the hose… and it started spraying at the ceiling and down at her.  It took her like 10 seconds to get the hose again, and the entire room was drenched.  Thing is… she managed to do it again!  Epic.

Today, me and Evan went out to eat at the California Pizza Kitchen at Bayshore Mall.  I’ve had their frozen pizzas before, so I figured that getting it from the restaurant would be even better.

Oh how was I wrong.

Upon recieving my pizza, I noticed a few things.  First of all, we just paid $12 for a pizza that is 1/2 the size of the frozen pizza you purchase for $6.99 at Pick ‘n Save.  At first I figure, “Well… it probably tastes better than the frozen one so I suppose it’s worth it”

Wrong again.

I’ve never… ever in my life tasted a pizza worse than what I ordered at CPK.  I ordered a white cheese pizza, which had 5 different cheeses.  Although the cheese was good, the spinach was cold and tasted utterly disgusting.  (I’ve had spinach on a pizza before, it’s actually quite good)  Also, the crust tasted almost sweet.  I don’t look for sweet when I’m eating a pizza!  When bringing up our … disagreements with their food to the staff, we were met with a blunt “The pizza in the stores are made by Kraft, and the restaurant pizza is completely different” from the manager.

Never, ever, again.

As you may or may not have noticed, we have had yet another blog refresh.  I promise, this is really the last time!

A lot of things have been going on in my life.  I now have a job working as a Dietary Aide at Franciscan Villa, a nursing home in South Milwaukee.  I also have been busy with my boyfriend Evan, which I have been spending increasingly more time with since I got my car.

I’ve also had to deal with moving to a new house, which to be honest has been an exciting experience.  I now have windows in my room, which makes for less of a dark and dreary work environment.  Due to that fact, I should be coming up with more interesting content, and more activity on this website.

Do you have any suggestions on what you would want besides just general blogging about life?  For example, reviews on specific things I may have done or tried, or technology help, or anything?  Feel free to comment and let me know what you think!

As always, you can e-mail suggestions to cjmaio@mac.com.