Live from NJ

This is my first post from my new iPhone!

I’m in NJ visiting my friend Ray, and yesterday he was nice enough to go with me to the Apple store to wait in line.
Which turned out to be *really* nice of him… AT&T or Apple were having technical issues, so it ended up being a wait of epic proportions.

I wanted to get there early, so we got up just after 6, stopped for some coffee, and got to the Apple store around 7. There was a pretty big line already, we were about 100th in line.

When the store opened, the line was moving pretty decently, but as time passed it got slower and slower. We chatted music, politics, and culture with other people in line; Apple handed out water and munchkin donuts; Ray went and got bagels for us; still the line moved at a pace between a crawl and not at all.

One man next to us had to give up after waiting hours, he had appointment to get to.

The woman next to us, a nurse, was relieved to find out a meeting she was supposed to go to was cancelled – she could keep waiting with us.

Finally I got inside – at just after noon – FIVE hours of waiting.

The network was still down, I bought the phone but couldn’t use it until activating it on Ray’s laptop later in the day.

But I have to say, the iPhone *is* pretty damn cool.