Lines and more lines

Well, it certainly has been an interesting weekend. Susie and I decided to go ahead and switch phone service providers and participate in the ‘iPhone’ madness. First, I woke up around 5 am on Friday to go sit outside an AT&T store near our apartment. Apple had been bragging that activation would probably take between 15-20 minutes per customer prior to the launch…yeah, not so much. After it took the first guy in line more than 45 minutes to  come out with his phone (still not activated), I knew that something was up. Turns out the demand was too much for the iTunes servers to handle and the entire system went down. So much for the “in-store activation experience.” Luckily, AT&T decided relatively quickly to let people purchase the phone and try to activate them later from home (similar to the system they used for the launch of the first iPhone last summer). I wasn’t able to get mine to work until around 3:30 Friday afternoon, but at least I was able to get back to work relatively quickly.

The biggest hiccup in my plan was that AT&T had decided to impose a BS one phone per person in line rule which meant that I couldn’t buy Susie a phone while she was at work. I figured she wasn’t going to be up for going to stand in line Friday night, so I decided to go back on Saturday morning while she was stuck at work. After another 3 hours of waiting, we both now have working phones, which are pretty awesome. Other phones may have similar features, but I doubt there is another mobile device that is as much fun to use as the iPhone.

Yesterday we finally saw WALL-E. Susie and I both loved it. Understanding how PIXAR continues to make such fantastically entertaining movies is beyond me. Have they made anything that hasn’t been great?

Not much else is going on this weekend. Today has been a “lazy Sunday” in every sense of the word. Besides making a trip to the store and going on a quick run this morning, it has pretty much been Susie reading the Maltese Falcon and me watching the Astros game (thank you Brandon Backe for giving us something to cheer about after a brutal two weeks).