First, the 1TB hard drive I use with my hacked AppleTV went up in smoke.

500 GB of movies down the shitter.  That drive also housed my iPhoto backup. That really sucked.

Not 30 minutes later I went to get something from the car and stumbled. I didn’t fall, but somehow my iPhone came loose from the pocket I keep it in and went crashing down to the pavement.

Bye, bye glass screen.  Shattered.

Yay.

The phone still works, but I risk slicing my finger open if I dare try and use it.

At least I still have a 500Gb external drive to use, but I needed to clean it up and reformat it.  That meant transffering what I wanted to save onto my laptop, which meant me freeing up 60GB of space on my laptop to fit the stuff from the hard drive.

Needless to say 60GB wasn’t easy to free up, and I deleted some stuff I wish I didn’t have to. At least I have a temporary drive to use with the AppleTV, and to backup my photos.

That leaves the phone.  I don’t know what I’m going to do about that.  I can’t afford a new one, and the prices to get them fixed are insane considering what I paid for the phone, and the fact that our contract is up in November and I’ll be moving to Verizon. I also can’t see finding a cheap phone to put my SIM card in, because I’ll still be paying for iPhone service.

What would be crazier than trying to get ahold of Apple Customer Service during the morning on Black Friday? Probably a lot, but that’s what I’m doing right now.

You see on Nov 19th I ordered a refrub 40GB Apple TV. I got the shipment notification shortly after, but ever since FedEx has not updated the tracking. The thing is supposed to come tomorrow, so I called FedEx and they said they received a notice that there was a package to ship, but never got the package to ship it.

They told me to call Apple. So that’s what I’m doing. I’m pretty sure they’ll throw this all back on FedEx’s shoulders, but I have no clue what to do to get this package found.

For all I know it’ll show up tomorrow as planned.