TimesToCome

Who’d've thunk you’d see me waiting in line for anything? But the husband needed down time and it was about the only excuse that was going to get him to take off a day.

I figured we’d be in line 1 maybe 2 hours. Ha, it was more like 5.

But we were able to pass the time chatting with some geeks I know from town. We also met some cool new geeks from the surrounding areas. And we chatted about all sorts of geeky nerdy things. There is a lot of geekiness that can be covered in 5 hours. They were all impressed by Twitter updates coming through from around Houston.

About an hour into the wait Chick Fil-A sent down a cow to entertain us. The cow danced, cut up and then brought food. By then we were hearing about ATT stores selling out, though I’m told the ATT employees all seemed to score phones for themselves.

The Apple employees brought us several rounds of water, coffee and good cookies. About 2 hours into the wait they brought us 10% off accessories coupons.

3 or so hours into the wait some guy in a suit walked by surrounded by 4 foreign soldiers. Possibly Mexican, no one knew for sure, but it gave us all something to watch and puzzle over.

About 4 hours in Godivia sent over ice cold chocolate coffee treats. They were much appreciated.

Nice businesses, you can bet I’ll do business with them all again.

The Gap store freaked. The help marked out their territory with posts and ribbon and glared at us the whole time. Guess who won’t be seeing any of my money anytime soon.

Activations take place at home. iTunes servers are hammered. But shutting down and restarting iTunes seems to do the trick to get you through it all.

It was interesting talking to some of the younger nerds in the crowd. They couldn’t understand why all us ‘older’ folks are upset over government spying and talking about ‘Big Brother’. Let’s hope they don’t need to find that out. Though that prospect seems unlikely.