Recently, my life was described online as such:

[…] your perspective is skewed because your life has been a literal fairy tale compared to other lives. And you even admit that. So when I talk to you about my troubles, a lot of times, from your perspective, I get really frustrated at your advice because it’s naive.

I thought I’d take the time to respond to this characterization.  My life is not a fairy tale. I have not been granted servants, magic fairy godmothers, easily summarizable plot and lesson outlines, and I don’t eek out an existance in a fable.  While I may somewhat physically resemble certain fairy tale characters (think Shrek), I’m not super lucky, despite my great well-aspected Mars and Jupiter placement in the 5th house.

Good.  Now that we’ve gotten THAT out of the way, I wanted to blog about this new Microsoft 8GB Zune 2 I won recently.  It’s so awesome! I use it all the..

what?

What do you mean, “see what I mean?!?!?” ?  Doesn’t EVERYone win stuff like this when they go out and live life?  I went to a local Microsoft event on “Get Healthy Stay Healthy” and my name was drawn to win the Zune.  Oh, and I also got a fully licensed copy of Office Ultimate 2007 (the whole box and everything!)  So it’s not like I won a CAR or something.  I did that LAST year, sheesh.

So I’m loving this Zune.  My daughter has a video iPod nano and it’s really cool… I was thinking about getting a big Zune last year but decided against it.  Then I saw the video iPod nano and just about fell in love with it.  Then I won this one and love it EVEN more than I thought I would.

Pretty much, after playing with both of them, the only difference I can tell is that the Zune has wireless and FM Radio.  Everything else is basically the same.  There are more indepth comparisons online but I really only care about what *I* see is different.  I use the FM but so far I don’t use the wireless, but it does allow for wireless sync, and I may start playing with it.

Probably the biggest “new” thing due to this acquisition is that I am now VERY much into podcasts, and that’s the biggest thing I’m using it for.  I’m listening to StarPower (Guitar Hero podcast), Bill Maher, Skeptics Guide, a few Microsoft podcasts, Mind of Root, Astronomy podcast and a few others… and it’s inspired me to want to participate in a couple podcasts, probably with technology and astrology.

One thing that caught my eye was the “Hello from Seattle” little signature on the back.  Now that is so cute…