The temperature in hell just dropped by 100 degrees.

For Tom's birthday, I gave him a new sleek black 60 gig iPod. When he opened the box, he did NOT burst in to flames as we all thought would happen.

Clearly, Tom has joined the rest of us on the Dark Side.

And, Bono was on the box, so now I have it next to my U2 iPod box on the shelf. It's a happy little U2 iPod box shelf.

Life is good.

Now if only they could make ear buds that didn't feel like pebbles were lodged in your ears.