SO much hype – hard to believe, really.  MONTHS of people talking about it, speculating, etc.  It finally came out on Friday at 6pm.  Much as I wanted one, I decided it would be wise to wait a while and see what people thought.

I waited right around 16.5 hours.

Zipped over to the Apple Store in Northridge.  8 people in line.  The entire transaction, including picking out a case, lasted 5 minutes.  Paid, left.  Had lunch, and brought it home.  Having read some stuff on Digg (the comments on which, by the way, have become absolutely worthless) about people having problems activating the phone.  I can only assume these are retarded stoners, because it worked flawlessly for me.  Inside 10 minutes my Razr was deactivated (thankfully – what a hunk of TRASH) and my iPhone was receiving calls.  I had also transferred a bunch of music and pictures, synced all my contacts and email profiles and calendar, and got it fully charged.

Don’t believe what you read on Digg – the thing is awesome.  Gorgeous device, full featured, and absolutely, hands-down the best interface I have ever seen on a computer of any size ever.  The web browser kicks ass, the ipod will play through the speakerphone, it works great with the Bluetooth in mty car, and is a loud, comfortable, easy to use phone even.  The visual voicemail is cool too.

Go get one.  Now.  Go.

Christianity:  The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree.

Sydney is going away to camp.  For two weeks.  Very exciting,  except there will be NO WAY to contact her.  We get to visit at the halfway point, but this is still killing me.  i worry about her when I CAn get ahold of her.  This will very likely make me insane.  i have enough going on with work right now that i can keep myself distracted (plus Pammy’s birthday celebration and yet another Vegas trip) – but man.  This is bad.