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I shell out the $500 for an iphone with accessories (extra charger for work and car charger), and of course you can't activate it in the store: you have to activate it from home.  I go home, I follow directions, and after typing lots of info into itunes, I am eventually told that no iphones activations are working today.  I call the apple store and after waiting for 30 minutes, I am told they have no ETA on the fix, because it's AT&T's issue and AT&T is a cipher to them.   There is no way for me to know when the registration is up again short of trying over and over again, which of course includes my typing in all my info (including the fake social security number I made up for my Cingular account back in the dim reaches of time so that I wouldn't have to give them my ss# for a stupid purpose).

Gah. 

 </rant>

Oh, and this is my cat.  I've mentioned him in a couple of comments.  He's a savannah cat.  It's hard to see in this photo, but he's very, very long.

You also get to see a tiny bit of my son's arm.  I'm sure he wouldn't approve of that, since all associations with parents are uncool, by definition.