Something to do...
Friday, November 9th, 2007 10:43 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
caddymanThere is a strange calm here in the office since we emailed the world with the news that the Determination would be delayed until the New Year. I have some work to do, but feel strangely disinclined to do it. I think I might indulge myself today and then bite the bullet and get on with it all on Monday. I can always blame the Monster for creating this unnatural fallow period in what should be our busiest time of year.
This sudden flood of free time at work leaves me with the freedom to ponder various possibilities for filling up the day in an interesting fashion. The first thing (perhaps the only thing) that springs to mind is that today is 9 November and therefore the day that the iPhone is launched in the UK. Now I have no interest in obtaining one1, but it seems that there are people out there who long for anything and everything that Apple churn out, regardless of price.
Anyway, to focus: there is an O2 shop on Victoria Street. There is also a Carphone Warehouse (and another around the corner). If the news media are to be believed (and who doesn’t believe them implicitly?), people are and have been queuing as if this was another Harry Potter, so that they can get a hold of one at 6.02pm this evening when they finally go on sale. Standing in line for over 30 hours in some cases, it seems – outside the Apple store in Regent Street for instance, just to pay £269 on top of a more expensive than usual 18 month minimum contract.
I may saunter along the street at lunchtime to see who these spods are; we all have our enthusiasms, but mine don’t extend to queuing in the cold and rain for anything I can’t eat or drink.
1To clarify: I have no interest in spending money on one, when I can get a FREE upgrade in due course and obtain a phone that meets my requirements for nowt.
This sudden flood of free time at work leaves me with the freedom to ponder various possibilities for filling up the day in an interesting fashion. The first thing (perhaps the only thing) that springs to mind is that today is 9 November and therefore the day that the iPhone is launched in the UK. Now I have no interest in obtaining one1, but it seems that there are people out there who long for anything and everything that Apple churn out, regardless of price.
Anyway, to focus: there is an O2 shop on Victoria Street. There is also a Carphone Warehouse (and another around the corner). If the news media are to be believed (and who doesn’t believe them implicitly?), people are and have been queuing as if this was another Harry Potter, so that they can get a hold of one at 6.02pm this evening when they finally go on sale. Standing in line for over 30 hours in some cases, it seems – outside the Apple store in Regent Street for instance, just to pay £269 on top of a more expensive than usual 18 month minimum contract.
I may saunter along the street at lunchtime to see who these spods are; we all have our enthusiasms, but mine don’t extend to queuing in the cold and rain for anything I can’t eat or drink.
1To clarify: I have no interest in spending money on one, when I can get a FREE upgrade in due course and obtain a phone that meets my requirements for nowt.