Life.

Okay. So my laptop, just having cruised past its third birthday, is starting to slow down. Constant freezing, crashing, you know the drill. In addition, it is, well, a freaking behemoth. Every time I have to lug it into uni, I am left staring enviously at the people toting around their blow-away-in-a-strong-breeze Vaios and MacBooks. I am considering, come either my birthday (September) or Christmas (the laptop's fourth birthday), or for both, asking the parents to go halves with me on a new one - possibly also making the switch to a Mac, but that is a question for later.

ON THE OTHER HAND. Monetary contributions are nice. They enable things like Dragon*Con, and/or other visits.

This would work out super-awesome if I happen to get the heritage job I've applied for, for the summer, since my spendthrifty self already has money saved, so altogether I could pay for both Trip(s) and Half A Laptop.

HOWEVER, there is a third most-desired item entering into this equation which is mucking things up. I've never owned a walkman, I've never owned a discman, and I have never for-real owned an mp3 player - bar a 250mb one my Dad got as a freebie from someone, and even then, I barely used it. The reason for this is: my hearing-aids. They make my life so very much easier, but are BTEs - behind-the-ear models. Not exactly headphone-friendly. And, in addition, have neither built-in FM capabilities, or a direct-input jack - nor are they a model that accepts a direct-input shoe.

They will, however, take a certain FM receiver attachment. Which, you know. You can't move without tripping over FM transmitter accessories for mp3 players. And dude. Oh, dude. That would be so awesome that I can only flail to express how awesome it would be. Listening to music in a place that is not in front of my laptop. THE STUFF OF DREAMS. And I mean, sparkly music has the ability to boost my mood like nothing else, to boost my mood astronomically. Needless to say, nowadays, that also would be awesome.

But that certain FM receiver attachment? Comes in at a nice £350 a pair - which is just under $700, for those following along in the US, and just over €500 for my fellow Europeans. And bear in mind I don't even have an mp3 player or necessary accessories, yet.

That?

That is not so awesome.

*broods pensively*

Because the knowledge that k-doramas are downloading whilst I curl in the corner and study cheers me up a bit, and thus makes me generous:

How to beat MegaUpload's download limits
     Getting around those pesky All download slots assigned to your country are in use and You have already downloaded 200-somethingMB. Please wait 390458430958903485 minutes and try again notices on the world's wankiest host - WITHOUT downloading any spywaretastic toolbars or other crap.

- Go here, install the User Agent Switcher Firefox extension, and restart Firefox.
- Go to Tools -> User Agent Switcher -> Options -> Options -> User Agents -> Add
- Add the following:
Description: MegaUpload
User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; Alexa Toolbar)

Whenever you want to download from MegaUpload, go to Tools -> User Agent Switcher and select MegaUpload, just changing back to default once you're done. Ta-da! No more shortages of download slots, and no more download limits.

In other news, Ai Otsuka needs to stop being so goddamn adorable that I start getting cavities every time I look at her. Oh, Ai. You can sing the Birthday Song to me. ♥_♥