A bit of our life, in words.

So it’s been a while since I’ve updated! Things keep happening that I’ve wanted to blog about but I just never get around to it.

The rest of the San Antonio Trip was great. We went to Sea World and spent about the whole day there. HOT! Crowded! And then more hot! But it was still fun. We fed the Dolphins and went to some shows. It was ridiculously crowded though; probably should have gone on Thursday.

This weekend we had a garage sale at my dad’s house. We spent several days last week cleaning things out of the garage and throwing away a LOT of things. The garage sale was a semi-FAIL event… but we found out why. Friday, we put up some signs and opened at 6am. But people stopped coming about 8am or 8:30am. So we closed up shop about 11am and put a note in our yard that we’d be open again tomorrow and on our way out noticed all our garage sale signs we put out on the streets were gone. So Ashley looked up about possible rules in Katy to that effect, and sure enough it says that we should post signs on telephone poles and not have signs you stick in the ground. So we figured the city probably pulled them all up. So we posted new signs the next day, on telephone and street lamp poles. So about 8am I left to go check out a place to have dad’s dog Princess be groomed and I noticed the signs we had just put out about 6:30am way down the street were gone! So I figured that since it was a major intersection and next to the park, maybe the city didn’t like things there and took them down. So I got back and about 30 minuets later we noticed people had stopped coming. Sure enough, all our other signs close to home had been removed (along with some other people’s signs around Katy). This couldn’t be the city’s doing because they were where they should have been AND it’s ok to have garage sale signs out; people do it all the time. So the only thing we figure is someone for whatever reason (I won’t speculate here) was going around and taking people’s signs down. (They were literally ripped off, not “taken down”. Tape and pieces of the papers were left in their place.)

So we put new signs up again (and people started coming again) and I sat and watched the signs at the end of the road for a good while trying to see if whoever was doing this came back; but they didn’t. Oh well… but so bazaar! So we ended up not getting rid of everything we hoped to. We’ll probably take some to charity and throw the rest away.

More later!

So, today was the big launch of the iPhone 3G and the iPhone 2.0 software. They also released iTunes 7.7 a few days ago and launched their MobileMe (formerly .mac) service just yesterday. So I woke up this morning excited to install the 2.0 software and start downloading the new apps from the iTunes App Store (also launched today).

The result: a bricked iPhone telling me to connect to iTunes to activate. Only their activation servers are all out of commission. So I’m stuck without a phone now and no resolution in sight. At first I thought it might be resolved quickly and it’s probably just the rush of everyone buying the new iPhone, etc. But it’s been going on for 4 hours now and I’m about to leave to be gone overnight without a phone! GRR! How could they not have been prepared for this?!?

So, it’s a little comforting to know that I’m now the only one. Everyone else trying to do it is having the same problem, including people who just bought the iPhone. I suspect it could have something to do with the fact that they tried to make it mandatory to activate your phone IN STORE. STUPID. It was so wonderful and easy when I went in and bought the phone and went home to do it all myself. Took 5 minutes. In the end though, AT&T and Apple stores have started selling the phones and telling people they can take it home and activate it. I imagine the whole thing about you HAVE to do it in store was so AT&T can try to upsell you on things. Ridiculous.

So I’m a bit frustrated, not that I can’t get my new software, but that I have no phone and no way to fix it. And there’s no way for Apple or AT&T to fix it either. We just have to wait for their servers to come back up… just so it can “check in” and start the restore process.

UPDATE: So I went and mowed the lawn, started packing and was about ready to leave when I came back to my computer and noticed it was restoring the phone. So it eventually got through just in time.