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!?!

So like, he tried to be all sorry and “better luck next time” but I was NOT leaving without an iPhone. I became one of the customers that made the wait so long. I made him call AT&T. After 45 minutes of trouble shooting the account it turns out that there was some corporate discount that we didn’t even know we had that was the issue. Ugh. So we removed it and finally the phone was set up. Phew. So now I had to go back to a real AT&T to figure that out another day. Whatever. I had my iPhone!

One more step. Plug it in and make a call. I did. I called Richard. It didn’t go through. I tried again. No luck. It rang, but went to AT&T operators. Huh. I cringed. I dialed MY number. My old phone rang. Shit! They put the upgrade on the wrong phone! At this point I was politely told by a number of Apple people that I was SOL. It was an AT&T thing. AT&T told me it was an Apple thing. I was screwed!

Finally an AT&T supervisor told me to swap the SIM. After an hour on the phone, of course… But now all is welll and I am a happy boy! LOL

tagged: work richard iphone apple time new upgrade wait

daniel · early morning · 4 comments · ping it

As you probably know I am getting the new iPhone on the 11th (or as soon as I possibly can since I work that weekend). So I have been watching the iPhone news pretty closely to be sure I can transition. You see, I’ve not had mine *that* long, and there is a 2 year contract and all… Most of those questions are now answered:

iPhone 3G questions, answered

I can’t even wait.. 

tagged: work iphone news weekend questions wait 3g

daniel · late morning · say it · ping it

It’s true. I am now known as a “waiter” at the ol’ VW service center. It even says so on my paperwork. The (other) service advisor told me that he didn’t advise my waiting for todays service to be completed. Nice. Well I was pretty vocal about waiting for nothing the last time. I guess they’d remember that.

I wasn’t supposed to be waiting today. Richard was supposed to come with me to drop off the car, and then we were going to go to the gym. But someone had a chocolate martini too many last night… I didn’t have the heart to drag him out so early today. I told him to get here as soon as he could.

He's probably still asleep. I'll just rot here.

tagged: wait car repairs flagged

daniel · at some point · 2 comments · ping it