Estate Sale Saturday

Right, so last Saturday I went to (did not have) an estate sale. Last time I went to an estate sale, I came away with two lovely wooden end tables. This estate sale was also fruitful, but in a slightly different way. I picked up two LPs, two board games, and a table lamp for a total of $6.75.

The records:


One random Bruce, and one I picked up solely because the title's similarity to the Bon Iver's "For Emma, Forever Ago" amused me.


The games:


Family Ties! But beware:





Also:

That one is from 1977.


Finally, this sweet lamp:


A lion playing the upright bass? Nice. I didn't know if it worked when I bought it, but it does. It even has a night light. All he needs is a shade.

Saturday night I went with Sam and Sooz to AV-aerie to see Mike Jorgensen do a solo Pronto set - and see a variety of other bands. The estate sale was admittedly a hard act to follow, but it was a fun evening. I also heard a few tales from a drummer freshly returned from the Southern hemisphere. Damn. Did not help the jealousy. We're coming up on a year since my big Australia/New Zealand trip, and I so wish I could do it again.

iPhone update

I got it! A week ago, to be precise. As luck would have it, the very afternoon I landed in Anchorage I received an email that my phone was in, and could I please pick it up within the next couple of days? Great. Of course I'd not brought with me the business card attached to my receipt, which listed the cell number of my sales associate. This meant that I spent way too much time Thursday morning trying to contact a real, living, breathing human being to explain that I was out of town but I'd appreciate it ever so much if they didn't cancel my order and sell my new iPhone to the next person in line, because then I'd be forced to visit the store and beat them with my old Razr (wielding it by its little Winnie-the-Pooh-dressed-as-a-tube-of-paint charm, which I got from a vending machine inside Quickly on my last trip to San Francisco, and is really the only thing I miss about that Razr.)

Anyway, I finally talked to someone. She said she'd mark down that I was out of town, and the phone would be waiting for me. And so it was. It's very pretty and sleek and new, and it has games! Well, it does since I downloaded some free ones from the app store. I also had fun making it sync with MobileMe, and updating all of my contacts to include little photos. I haven't yet tackled ringtones, but I will. Oh, I will.

I wish the phone could somehow take a picture of itself, which I could post using the iPhone, in a big ol' fit of meta. But since it can't, perhaps I'll take one with Photo Booth.

iPhone is also handy for reading and replying to email when you're doing things like hiking up a hill, as I discovered this evening on my regular outdoor prowl. (On stable terrain, that is.) But really, there's something to be said for being out of contact sometimes.

3G

On Saturday afternoon, I bought an iPhone.

I knew there was no chance iPhones would actually be in stock at my local AT&T store, but I figured I could at least order one. So that's what I did. It took surprisingly little time - I was in and out of the store in ten minutes. I left clutching the business card of my sales associate, and a receipt for one new 8GB iPhone, black. They vaguely claim it should arrive in about a week, but I'm not holding my breath. (Okay, maybe I am. Just a little!) Checking my order status today, I saw that the phone is in process ... but the um, "freight" is on backorder. Hmm.

At any rate, among the other things I need to do this weekend (there will be trip shopping), I also want to look for an iPhone case. I feel a bit like I'm shopping for baby clothes in preparation for the big arrival.