Black/slate 64gig iPhone 5. I said fuck it to waiting in line and decided to just show up at the Apple store in the downtown mall a half hour before the store opened. There was a HUGE line and the Apple chick at the end of the line said they were already sold out of the the model I wanted. I went and checked a couple of AT&T stores and heard the same thing, so I decided to drive out to the Best Buy store out by the military base.

The Best Buy showed no signs of any activity, so apparently they weren't opening early for the iPhone 5 release. While driving back out of the parking lot, I saw a little AT&T store with maybe 20 people in line outside and wound up getting the next to last 64gig black/slate model that they had. Everyone around me seemed to be getting the 16gig model.

I probably spent an hour or so out of my day shopping for it compared with some people who camped out under a tarp at the main AT&T store during the biggest overnight rainstorm that I've ever seen up here. I'm not sure about the hundreds of people waiting overnight to get into the mall to go to the Apple Store. I guess maybe they all slept in the parking garage? Suckers.

I used to refer to my iPhone as my FuturePhone™ since the original iPhone was so ahead if its time, but I've started calling this one the MonolithPhone™ as it resembles the black slab obelisk from 2001: A Space Odyssey. I guess that would make me one of the monkey men.