0151 - Full Lunar Eclipse

1630 - 4.5 Earthquake, and contractions start
1830 - Tina and I met at the hospital after her contractions started. I drove down from the city and my parents drove her in from SRV.

2100 - Dr. Liu decided to keep us overnight

2130 - we ate dinner and said our goodbyes to Emma

2230 - the contractions were still 3 minutes apart and we settled in for the night

It is very inconvenient for me to have to share my pictures via email, because most of my recipients are on Sprint Treos. I have found that if I send an email to xxxxxxxxxx@pm.sprint.com, this will actually send a picture share to their phone. I still connect receive MMS messages but at least it is half of the solution.

Every year I post the history of this great country. This year I would like to share with you what turns out to be a pretty hilarious celebration of independence.

• copy and paste - this one is almost unbelievable
• text select tool - the magnifying glass for moving the cursor is awesome…but how about some simple functionality?
• contextual menus - i need more options for text editing
• rotate in all apps - i should be able to at least rotate in the built-in apps
• keyboard selector - sometimes based on fields I am browsing in safari I need different keyboards but I have to deal with the ones that the iphone gives me
• save attachments to the phone, i.e. pictures in an email
• MMS/Picture Share

After my phone was finally activated 5:33am Saturday morning I was able to make and receive calls according the text message. What they didn’t emphasize is that I was actually able to use the iPhone for the first time. Until your service it activated you cannot use the device, period.

Over the next two days I was making receiving calls, using my wifi to surf the internet and youtube, and editing my calendar and contacts. I loaded up 1.8G with music and movies (about 108 songs and 2 movies), which left me with 1.8G free…which for me is more than enough. I will leave the majority of my iTunes library on my 80G iPod.

One issue I ran into, and plagued me throughout the weekend, was the inability to make a second call or receive a second call while already on the line. I placed a call this morning to AT&T support to fix this (since I had a few minutes). My call was promptly answered and as soon as I mentioned “iPhone” I was told that Apple has to handle the support calls. I tried to explain it seemed to be a network issue, but it was clear the rep had heard “iPhone” and glazed over. I was transfered to Apple and had a great conversation about the success of Apple and how exciting the iPhone is, and joked a bit about being transferred to Apple…who has about as much control over my AT&T network issues as I do. I then called AT&T back and this time omitted the reference to the iPhone and hoped I would not be ask about what phone I was using until we were well into the issue. This time the call and the tactics paid off, the competent (more than usual) rep who answered my call immediately identified the issue as an account provisioning problem and fixed it in minutes. It is amazing what an alert and educated rep can do for a company.

So now I can make and receive calls like the text message at 5:33am on Saturday promised me….and it’s only 12:50pm on Monday.

I am so anxious….AT&T still has not activated my iPhone. So while I was looking for things to learn about my new device (which cannot be used to do anything until it is activated {LAME}) I came across this:

Note: iPhone doesn’t support MMS messages. If someone sends an MMS message to
your iPhone, it won’t be received.

I need MMS, and I am sure it will be supported in a future software update….but really, no MMS?

Waiting in line at the Cingular AT&T store on Sunset was fun. I met a lot of nice people and actually came away with the 3rd to last iPhone of the night….phew!

This being the second year my wife is pregnant during the Derby we were unable to celebrate with Kentucky Bourbon. Instead we relied on this old-time non alcoholic version…

4 Mint sprigs — up to 5 sprigs
1 1/2 cups Sugar
2 cups Cold water

3/4 cup Lemon juice

1 1/2 quarts Ginger ale
Lemon slices — thin (garnish ; optional )

Place the sugar, water, and lemon juice
in a medium-sized bowl,
mix, and stir in the mint leaves.
Allow to stand for 30 minutes.
Fill a large pitcher with ice cubes
and strain the liquid over the ice.
Add the ginger ale and
lemon slices, and serve.

andy, originally uploaded by ahalvor.

The home opener was good, but my seats were better. Thanks to Juniper Networks for making this opening day the best ever.