Once upon a time there was a guy in his early teens named Stuart who wasn't very musically interested at all, whose Music interests didn't span any further than what was on the radio at that time.
Then one day in his very early teens, he discovered M.C Hammer (who, was approx. 13 years past his used by date, equal to Stuart's age at the time), which started his musical interest.
The very first CD he ever bought was Nirvana's Greatest Hits, which he bought with the voucher he won from school.
That previous year, the mobile phone he received as his birthday present also came with a discman!
The discman which hadn't been used in the 8 months it had been owned finally had a use.
By now, it was mid-late 2004, and it was approaching Christmas, when Stuart received his Sony Ericsson Z1010 mobile phone, which was converted into his Primary music player, which he stored on the 128 megabyte memory card he bought for approx. $100 retail.
By mid 2005, Stuart had become fed up at his Mobile, and it's 45 minute per 4 megabyte song transfer rate via USB, and now defective earphones (which cost $89.99 to replace!!).
By this time, he had also accumulated a love for heavy metal band Metallica.
He was now either stuck with 3 choices.
1) Not listen to music at all
2) Listen to music through the speakers which weren't very loud, and partially squawky
3) Fess up and pay for the new phones.
Of course, Stuart chose the non listed option 4) Which was accumulate a new device to play his music.
He decided one Cold August Saturday (He is an Australian, hence Winter in the middle of the year) to request an iPod, preferably a mini for his upcoming 15th birthday.
After a month of investigation, discussions with his father over possible issues (What if it's dropped and hard drive freezes etc), It is almost certain that Stuart would receive a 4 GB (Whose dad now says he would have purchased the 6GB) Green Mini with an uncertain Engraving on the rear purchased from Apple.
Well, on the afternoon of the 10th of September, When Stuart went to admire the engraved green mini (on Apple's engraved previewer) He was astounded to find the Nano replaced the Mini.
In 5 minutes his astoundedness went to shock then to anger.
He said 'I don't want this nano thing, I want the mini!!'
Well, how things changed in a month. By the start of October, not only had he accepted the fact that he would likely either get a non engraved mini, or a nano, after seeing how small the nano actually was while out shopping with yet more gift vouchers won from school (this time $60 gift voucher for a large shopping centre within 30 minutes of his residence for being a finalist in a speaking competition) he was now a nano supporter.
One fateful sunny Thursday afternoon after school, The black 4 GB nano with "'iWorm'
Made for Stuart I."
on the back was ordered.
About, 4 working days or so later, on a cloudy Wednesday morning, it came.
Stuart had a dentist appointment the day it came. He was not home at the time, he could not collect it until the next day. He was completely and utterly angered by the Dentist for making the appointment that day, despite the fact he had to wait the second day of November until he received it.
That next rainy cold day, after pondering for about half an hour looking for the depot (which was in a local area) on dodgy directions given to by his Mother (Who was previously employed in a business in the immediate vicinity of this depot)
He finally picked up the package.
He got one quick play of it, before returning it to it's box for the next few weeks.
A few weeks later, that day arrived. Even though Stuart battled a heavy cold, Heavy Fatigue due to extreme lack of sleep and a terrible mood, he did enjoy his iPod.
2 months, 18 days later, Things are well. The iSkin case I ordered a week or so before the iWorm arrived came Wednesday the next week, the silicone case I ordered the Monday before my birthday eventually got here, sooner than the iSkin, but far longer that it should have, considering it was 20 minutes away.
iWorm is currently just shy of 3 GB full, and is fulfilling it's duty well.
As for Stuart, Well he is just enjoying his summer holidays, As he should be.
How do I know all this? Well the one referred to as Stuart just happens to be me, surprise, surprise!