I has iPhone! :-)

Well I did it, I gots me an iPhone. :-)

Decided to head over to my cell retailer that I got my previous phone from (a Motorola KRZR) during my lunch break to see if I qualified for an upgrade on my account and sure enough I did, even qualified for a $50 rebate as a "preferred" customer (translation: Rogers sucker), which wiped those pesky "administrative" charges and brought down the purchase of the phone from $199 to $175. Kewl! ;-)

No lineup to speak off, oh they were busy, but I was lucky to catch one guy just finishing with another customer and walked right up and started the transaction. Thankfully, I didn't experience the whole having to wait in line dealie that others did, but I made up for it in waiting to be activated. Rogers' site kept going down and was so slow to process the actual activation on their part to add a data plan to my current phone plan, that I was asked to just take the phone and once things were done administratively from their end, the rep would call me on Saturday to let me know and I could begin the activation process through Apple. (BTW, initially I was to come back after work and everything would be complete, which I did and it wasn't cuz of the aforementioned glitches.)

So basically I had a brick to look at all Friday night and Saturday while I waited.....and waited...and waited some more for the guy to call me back. (It was a beautiful brick to look at of course, but a brick nonetheless.) By 1pm I was getting a little miffed cuz I had now frittered away most of my day waiting on a guy that wasn't even gonna buy me dinner so I called him: "oh yes, hi, yes you're all activated, you can start the activation process with Apple". Doh! Guys..this is why you should never tell a girl that you're gonna call her the next day (especially if it involves technology), cuz you usually don't!!! :-)

So I do the Apple Activation dance, 2.0, and set up MobileMe, which I hadn't done yet. Made use of my time when I was waiting for the call that never came to update my Address Book info...I *love* that I didn't have to enter all those numbers manually. Syncing address book, calendar and bookmarks was a breeze, .Mac mail even faster and voila, I has an iPhone that is no longer a brick.

Then I made the mistake of checking out the Apps Store, and an even bigger mistake in downloading Super Monkey Ball.

I may never sleep again. :-)