iPhone entertainment :-/

So the grass at my hose has finally been cut! I don't remember the exact date, but it was before Hurricane Gustav the last time it was cut, so at least 6 weeks! The new lawnmower performed well (For DSD I'll switch to a solar powered or electric mower when they become more efficient and cost friendly...or I become rich). A while back, I accumulated $95 in BestBuy Reward Zone points. Well over the pst week, I went to BestBuy 3 times to try and figure out what to spend the points on, with no luck. I should mention that they expired Saturday, Oct. 11. Well Saturday I received a check from one of my part time jobs and that combined with, the BestBuy $$$, and a $25 AmEx gift card I found in my wallet, led to me deciding on upgrading my original 8GB iPhone, to the 16 GB iPhone 3G. Being eligible for upgrade and the other discount brought the cost from $399 to $198 and change including tax! I'd call that a deal especially since the 8Gb 3G model list for $199. Thank you BestBuy for satisfying my nerd needs. The purchase didn't take place until around 7pm Saturday night and was actually a bit of an ordeal. While meeting with the Sales Rep prior to purchasing the phone, he informed that my ATT account was past due and he couldn't complete the transaction until it was taken care of. Not wanting the $95 in BB points to go to waste, I proceeded in attempting to get it taken care of. The balance due was only $230(I say that sarcastically). Ironically it was due the previous day. Well I'm still part of my parents family plan, so I call my father to see if he can take care of the balance so I can get the phone. As soon as he answers I remember that he's at another universities homecoming game acoss town. Long story short he convinces me to go ahead and pay the pill, and that he or my mother will reimburse me (still waiting...). I go to one of the computers in the back of the store, log on to ATT and pay the bill. I'm sure my identity was probably stolen by about 15 people, since I'm sure those computers are monitored and not the most secure! It's funny how I saved money on the phone, but end up paying more due to all the complications.

Well while all this was going on, I was attempting to watch the LSU vs. Florida game in the store. My sales rep was a Florida fan and apparently had $200 riding on the game. It wasn't much fun hearing him, talk crap. After finally leaving BestBuy I headed over to my friend Matt's place to drink and finish watching the game which was quite ugly. I'm a pretty big LSU fan, I don't remember the last time we lost as bad as we did Sat. night. Hopefully it was a good wake up call. I brought my laptop with me and during the game, attempted to "restore" my new iPhone with the information and settings fro my old one. Apparently, transferring 8 gigs of information takes some time, and it wasn't able to finish. The depressing nature of the game, led to me going straight home after leaving Matt's. I hd originally planned to go out somewhere. I was pretty tired and pretty much crashed when I got home.

I worked at the part time station Sunday. Not long after getting there, I attempted to finish "restoring" my new iPhone to the settings of my old iPhone. About halfway through the process the guy working at the other station decided to call me on my cell phone. After I hung up, the phone went to the apple logo, and after turning it off & on and try to reset the device, it never made it out of the boot screen. Since my cell phone is primary means of communication and I have no house phone, this made me pretty nervous. Luckily, after about 3-4 hours of searching various forums. I figured out how to basically format the device and reinstall all the software. That took about an hour, but I was able to sucessfully install the software, all my media file, contact/calendar information, and Apps from my old phone. That was a enough work for the day, so I watched movies at the station for the rest of the shift and didn't have to respond to any calls.

Yesterday, I planned on cleaning house, but procrastination got the best of me. I went to Chelsea's for Lunch and had lunch with my friend APC before she left town. I came back home and pretty much crashed on the couch until I was woken up by a text message asking if I was coming to training. I had nothing better to do, and wasn't in the cleaning mood so I decided to go. We trained on "Water Supply" which I must say was pretty boring, but I did learn a few new things. We ended training with watching people put MRE heating packets in plastic drinkning bottles and making them go boom. Luckily we couldn't find any MRE's around the station.

I was supposed to be off today, but got talked in to working. It's only for 12 hours so maybe when I get home tonight I'll be motivated to clean up my bed room some. I was looking at my schedule and realized that this will be the last night I spend in my house for the next 5 days courtesy of work. Enough rambling. I'm tired of typing. The iPhone is performing like it should. I ordered a case similar to the one I had for my original iPhone. I even found a random coupon online that saved me $10 on it!