Timberlake, Too Hot For My iPod...Kinda

As a direct result of my own impatience, I must now lay my red iPod Nano to rest. No matter how much I love those little music givers, they are built to be disposable. Much like the rest of our clothing, electronics and appliances.

This weekend I accidentally knocked a glass over that was on my bedside table. It didn't have much more than 4-6 tbsp of water in it, and it didn't even spill all the way over, it leaned against our Bose iPod dock and dribbled out a negligible amount of liquid, right into the exposed charging dock.

I dried up what I thought was the entirety of the spill, and little did I know, there was more hiding underneath the removable base plate. It reminds me of what They always say about how little water in which someone can drown.

Here's where my impatience has rendered me Nano-less. I wanted to listen to music, so I plugged in the iPod. The result was a little bit "zzzzik!" and a whole lotta nothing, followed by 20 minutes of extreme heat and a frozen screen in the middle of a Justin Timberlake ode that probably had "sexy" in the title. (No need to tease me about this, I've accepted my appreciation for the talent of this former boy-bander. Admit it...you like "SexyBack" too...) Then the screen went black. I blew into the base for a few minutes, old school Nintendo cartridge style, in a frivolous attempt to dry out my now-fried pod and left it in front of the fan overnight. Oh silly woman.

The next night we were hanging out with some friends, and one of these friends is dating a guy who works at a Mac store. I asked him if there was any redemption to my situation and his response was, "do you have a trash can?"

Not that I consider myself careless with my electronics, but this is the second of three iPods I've damaged with a little bit of H2O. The other one still works, sans backlight, even though I spilled half the water out of my birthday flower arrangement and into my purse upon a too sharp turn onto 2-lane Doheny.

So R.I.P. little red iPod.
Dec 2006- Aug 2007