I did in fact get my new iPhone. I guess I left the blog kinda hanging on that…
Let me just say, What a debacle! Getting a new phone should not be so hard! Seriously. That said I am so glad I went thru it. I like being one of the idiots out there “first”. LOL. So after my 3 hour wait the SECOND day I was finally next. I was so sure my activation would be fast. I knew which phone I wanted (8G, I have a brand new iPod Classic that is huge so no need for 16G), I knew I qualified for the upgrade, should be smooth. After another 20 minutes (I know, right?) a “specialist” approached me. We got to work. He fetched the phone, took my info, and entered it into the activation handheld thing. We waited. The result came back fast: “Error. Account does not qualify”
WHAT!?!
tagged: richard work iphone apple time new upgrade wait

from the motorola SLVR.
UPDATE: This entry also included audio, which never posted due to a recent CMS upgrade. It was just an explanation of the photo and how I was spending the evening by the fire instead of the computer. Bah. Well, at least I got it fixed for the next time I send an audio file with my phone!
tagged: evening cold upgrade fire reading audio cms
I don’t know who ‘they’ are, but I’d agree with them on this one. Wanna know what I did last night? Really?
Well, after work my man took me out to our new favorite dinner spot Jimmy Carters. W ate waay too much. Great food AND service there! Then we came back home. Richard promptly fell asleep in his recliner. I sat at the computer with every intent of doing something creative. Maybe a podcast, come up with a Lunchtime Poll, something. No such luck. I managed to register for this years NaBloPoMo. (Come on and join me! All you have to do is post every day!)
Then I got lost.
I went to Apple’s official list of 300+ New Features. I read each one, then tried it out or tried to find it. Is that part of my OCD? I mean, to do something like that? OMG. It took hours! But it was a lot of fun, in a geeky way. I really love this latest version of OS X…
Anyhoo, I went to bed super late. Crazy boy.
tagged: apple ocd mac crazy os x nablopomo upgrade leopard
That’s right kiddies. We are on the Leopard. I know, right?
So there are so many things I am liking about it. Even a casual user like me will get a lot of use from the new features. I won’t list them here. We have been reading about it for ages… But I do have like, a bit of complaining to get out. I do. I know, I am sorry Steve. But still. That login screen? The “space” look? Embarrassing. I HATE it. I think I already hacked it away too. We’ll see when I reboot. I also am seriously bugging about the Dock. The Dock and I have always had a love hate thing. I loved it centered, zoom on, and clear. Yes, clear. It took a separate hacking app. to do it, but my dock is always clear. Now it looks more like a little stage for a little Barbie band. What, with the lights coming up through it, and the way it lays back. Blech. I hope Unsanity updates that hack sooner than later. Seriously. The see-thru menu bar is not really cute either, but I can live with it.
Otherwise I am pretty thrilled. Things really do seem faster and smoother. I did the upgrade, like I have in the past with no real problems. My Keychain got lost for a bit, but Software Update fixed me right up on that one. Time Machine is ‘backing up’ as we speak. I cannot wait to see that in action! Wee!
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