Digging's almost done. Another day to even out the trench that the first row of stones goes into--and one electrical wire moved--and I'll be ready to start construction of the wall. Ugh, I'm tired all the time.

I got an iPhone. It was an interesting time. I had a lot of work to do on my retaining wall on Friday, but I really didn't want to do it. I made a deal with myself--I'd go LOOK at the phone if I got the plumbing done by 6pm that day. I got the plumbing done, so I went to my AT&T store nearby.

80 people in line outside of the store, so I just kept driving. I went to my girlfriend's house and picked her up, we had dinner. We went back to the AT&T store, and there was no line, we went in and they were out of phones. We looked at a display phone, pretty neat, but nothing great while there at the store.

We went back to her place and I looked up the phone online and saw that the interface was pretty cool. The picture interface especially. So I called up the local apple store at 8:45 and asked if they had any phones left. They said, "yeah, we have some. A few. Maybe quite a few." I asked how much of a line they had. They said, "no line left, it's pretty much died down." So I went down to the store and, at 9:30, walked up to the counter with no line and bought one of the 80 or so phones that were left. Piece of cake. I had it working :45 minutes later.

So far, the phone is awesome. The camera could be better--it's not replacing my digital camera, at least not yet. I would have liked voice activated dialing. And I wish that the Safari "large" landscape keyboard was available everywhere on the phone. The web could be faster but it's still useful for settling arguments and looking up various things. Other than those little problems, the thing is just so amazing that I can't even begin to say. The web is much faster than I expected, in fact. The Google Maps feature is awesome. The picture interface is amazing. The iPod is the best ever. The phone's reception is better than any I've ever had. The interface is beautiful. I was saying for the first few days "this is the first phone that actually works well," but that's not giving it enough credit because the iPod is the best ever, especially for video, and the internet is there, and more and more of it is useful...it's great. Simply great. _
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