It's grillin' time!

After months of research, studying grill after grill after grill, and multiple nights studying Consumer Reports--I bought a grill. Not just any grill, for her name is Hoss. She's a Weber Genesis E-320 and my husband Shawn expertly put her together while I was toiling away on the iPhoto Missing Manual over at Pogue's place.

I left David's at about 7:45 and zipped by the Saugatuck market and grabbed a couple of ribeyes along with three ears of corn and a bundle of snap peas. It was the best meal either of us have had in years. Seriously. And with the way I travel, I've had some pretty amazing meals in the past few years.

I predict there will be a significant increase in protein while the warm weather lasts :)

Getting ear molds in the City

In the first of what could be a relatively long line of purchases to accessorize my iPhone, I took the train into the City (Manhattan) to get molds made of my inner ears.

That's right, I traveled to Scientific Plastics at 243 West 30th Street and they shot my ears up with clay (or at least, that's what it felt like). It was a really weird feeling but the results should be bloody fantastic. Once they're finished (I pick them up next Wednesday), my iPhone earbuds will fit *perfectly* into my ears thus blocking out all kinds of ambient noise (screaming babies on airplanes) and the sound quality (the bass) should be nothing short of spectacular, all for a cool $100.

Stay tuned! I'll let you know how they work out.

Fleeting moments of fame

It's been three days since I spent 22 hours in line at the Apple Store on 5th Avenue to equip the King family with iPhones. Never in my life have I experienced such a pleasurable and memorable shopping adventure. By the time it was all over, I would have happily given them $600 for the experience alone!

The people-watching was as good as it gets, and covered the gamut of weird to Apple faithful to corporate types to pure attention-getters to those trying to exploit their place in line to make a buck (I didn't like those people at all). Our good friend Loren Finkelstein came down to share in the fun, as did other friends Brian Paloski, Paul Sahner, and David Pogue. Loren and I helped Shawn make a fantastic video for Macworld.com, which is as close as you can get to being there, well, without really being there. A ton of pictures from the event live here.

You've simply got to see it to believe what happened once the store opened at 6:00 pm. Apple made us feel like rock stars as we descended the crystaline stairs, cheered and applauded us as we purchased iPhones, and kept the cheering going as we ascended into the maelstrom of media. I told Shawn it was as close as we'd get to knowing how Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie feel :)

The results is that we were all on a number of TV shows, radio interviews, web sites, and newspapers all across the globe. Click here for a clip of my short but giggly appearance on the Good Morning America show.

Thank you, Apple, for a truly glorious iPhone and the purchasing experience of a lifetime! (Oh yeah, and for the water and use of the restrooms!) And for those wondering if it was worth it? HELL YES! It's the most amazing technology product ever.