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I got a wireless Bluetooth stereo headset in the mail today.  The software is a bit feature poor as far as switching between functions but once you switch from one device to another the hardware works great.  The sound quality in stereo is great and as good as possible in telephony.  There seems to be very minimal lag in changing tracks to when I hear the change.  I’m real happy so far.  The headband around the phones is plastic but seems sturdy enough.  I’m really happy with how light they are, especially considering my last foray into wireless headphones was about a decade ago and was via fm radio.  Those things had 2 or 4 AAs in them and a lot more hardware, I’d say they weighed more than my current phone and these headphones combined, even ignoring their annoying and fickle base   Charging is accomplished via an included wall adapter, I’d have preferred the ubiquitous USB since it’s easier to switch out USB ports than it is coveted and less transient wall outlets.  The range covers my whole house with only minor hick ups coming up the stairs in the basement.

As a Burial sample probably says in Untrue’s Endorphin: “and you’ll see always the flashing blue lights.”
It was like 68 dollars with free shipping at amazon when I got them.  Well worth it thus far.

I’ve invested some money in the stock market over the last few months, since early April. I’d decided I’d fiddle with finding the cheapest way to invest like 50 bucks and pick a stock and try to beat my savings account’s growth of 4.5% with ING. (seems to be the best thing going in savings accounts: no fees, all online, no minimum balances etc. great all around.) By late May I’d decided to put a total of 250 dollars into Nintendo (NTDOY) makers of the Wii console. (Disclosure: Clearly this makes any statements about Nintendo suspect and subject to bias on my part.) Anyway, Its been doing well and I’ve made, after the fees I’ll have to pay when I divest (16 dollars through ShareBuilder, whose service was been 85% reliable and more importantly cheap to the point that it’s almost reasonable to invest with them even if you’ve only got 500 bucks to mess with (I’ve only got like 300 total, anything not in Nintendo is in SPDR S&P 500, which grows slowly but still quicker than my savings I think.) All around it’s a good experience. I think though I’m tempted to hang on to the Nintendo stock just so I don’t have to file a normal 10-40 and pay Capital Gains Tax. Maybe when/if I divest I’ll go out and buy a Wii. I’m glad I haven’t pulled a Silas Lapham and “I began to lose, and then I began to throw good money after bad,just as I always did with everything that Rogers ever came within a mile of.”

Even though it makes me nervous, doing all my banking and financial stuff on the ol’ internets is really easy. I’ve got all my accounts hooked together which probably makes it easier to steal all of my money and it’s probably a liability to even talk about too much. Time to change all of my passwords to something other than “password” and “mom.”

It’s easy to save what the cannery pays cause there ain’t no way to spend it.