Sunday while I was driving home from work, my iPod quit playing. When I tried to reset it, it gave me the "sad iPod" face that indicates that something is definitely wrong with it. I figured that it was something to do with the hard drive, as when I would try to start it it would make this weird clicking sound. After talking to Apple and finding out that it would cost roughly $200 to fix, I decided that it not worth it and I would simply get a new iPod.
So last night I went to the Apple Store and bought an 8GB Black iPod nano, which at $250 was a little more than I would have liked to spend, but seeing how it is flash memory based (a lack of a hard drive would prevent the possibility of having another HD go out on me) and has a 24 hour (rated) battery, I figured it was worth it. After getting home I didn't open it, as I was thinking about getting a refurbished 30GB iPod Video (which is $70 less than the nano). And because of more distractions I neglected to open it at all.
A little while later I noticed my old iPod sitting on my dresser, I picked it up and proceeded to attempt to turn it on, no surprise I got the sad face again. Just for the heck of it I gave it a few good whacks against my hand, and started it again. It worked. I have no idea why, but it did. I still don't fully trust it, as it still has a few of the symptoms of a bad/failing HD (when I attempted to switch songs the first time it froze, but only that once), but for the time being it works. This may have been pure coincidence, like the whole blowing on a Nintendo NES cartridge will "clean out the dust and make it work" rumor (which I find ridiculous and amazing that it is so widely accepted). Either way, I'm not complaining!
