yup still here
don’t worry folks, i’m still alive. just keeping myself busy.
so i got my new iphone. it is beautiful. getting there was a bit of a task. all week i had told myself that i was just going to go to the at&t store near work early in the morning to get it, but for some reason on friday morning i got the crazy idea that i should go to the apple store. just for the full experience, you know? bad idea. i got to the store at around 6:30, and i think there was about 100 people in line in front of me. i thought, ok, its long, but i should be out of here by around 10:00. boy was i wrong. at around 7:30 all of the apple store employees came out cheering and clapping, giving us high fives, etc. it was fun and people got excited. right at 8, the local news stations were there to tape the first guy in line to go in. about 15 people went in to the store right when the doors opened. excitement was high, and we started to wait for the first guy to come out with his phone. and we waited. and we waited. it was 8:40 before the first guy came out of the store. ugh. i am sure most of you saw the news reports, there’s no need to go into detail with what went wrong.. down activation servers.. requiring a call to at&t in order to get the upgrade price.. etc. the line moved veeeerrry slowly. i got to the store around 12:05. did the calling up at&t and removing my fan discount song and dance, got the phone, and got out of the store by around 12:35. the line still stretched down 2/3 of the length of the mall. crazy. and to make everything more fun, i had forgotten to turn of my headlights when i got to the mall, so my car was dead when i got there. after getting a jump, i went straight to work.. only 6 hours late.. sigh. nevertheless, its an amazing phone. was it worth it? i think so.