And I'm also a geek, which is why I flippin' love this! A modern retelling of West Side Story. Ladies and gentlemen (and Nick), I give you...

Web Site Story.

• 12:47 So, O2IE offer inclusive calls to UK numbers while you're in the UK, but when you're at home, they charge international rates. Hmmm.
• 14:16 Off into town to pay the rent.
• 14:46 Nearly left my wallet in the bank - realised just in time. Phew!
• 20:03 Pizza and chips in the oven. Smells so good, I'm drooling...
• 22:31 He's better than Tim ever was, isn't he?
• 22:34 I do feel sorry for the Swiss fella; the whole crowd cheers every time he cocks up. (C'mon, Andy!)
• 22:41 So, Andy Murray vs. Ferrero Rocher in the quarter finals. Go Andy! #wimbledon

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• 17:05 Seriously, Sky News, SOMETHING else must have happened since Michael Jackson died...
• 22:38 Think am slightly OCD when it comes to apps on my iPhone. Am unable to arrange them in a manner which pleases me.

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• 13:43 First tweet from my lovely shiny new iPhone 3GS! Yay!
• 15:44 A third of the way through copying my music onto my iPhone. This is the downside of storing my music on a networked hard drive. *sigh*
• 17:24 500 tracks to go! Come oooooon...
• 20:55 Apple Mail.app seems slow to recognise that gmail accessed by IMAP has been read elsewhere - anyone else getting that?

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• 07:38 On my way into Galway to try to get an iPhone!
• 08:56 Just waiting for the OK from O2 head office. Come the fuck on!
• 09:54 Still nothing from O2. Sat in a cafe, chewing my mug of coffee in anticipation.
• 11:59 So, no iPhone 3GS yet, but as soon as they are able to get through on the fax line to head office I should be sorted. Yay!
• 12:03 My orange juice smells like wet cat. I think it's the glass... Maybe we need to put some more rinse-aid in the dishwasher...
• 12:31 There's a family on "Holiday Showdown" who regularly go to Birmingham on holiday... As if!
• 12:48 Michael Jackson will be survived by his children Prince Michael, 12, Paris, 11, Prince Michael II, 7, and his last nose, 4.
• 13:34 5 hours with no word from bloody buggery O2. This is becoming a saga now... [/Papa Lazarou]
• 15:31 Starting to get very annoyed that I haven't heard about my iPhone yet. 7 hours to fax through a form???
• 16:24 Unable to get through to the store, I called customer services. My iPhone account was approved at 2:30. Nice of them to tell ME that...
• 18:13 Very. Fucking. Annoyed.
• 18:50 JUST got through to the O2 store. I could have collected my iPhone at 2:30pm. They close in 10 minutes. GRAAAARRRR!
• 20:00 Right. Off to collect Chinese food for tea. Sweet and sour chicken, nom!
• 21:29 Oof. Full of chinese. May burst. Watch out.
• 22:35 Arse. I broke my own cardinal rule and fed an über troll. Couldn't resist.
• 22:49 I managed to keep the front door open while it smelled of cow poo, but I can't cope with the flies. *slam* *swelter*
• 00:32 Right, the trolls are fed and tucked in for the night with plenty to keep them going. Night!

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Landers kicked me out of bed at 7:15 this morning so we could go into Galway to try to get me an iPhone. The new model was launched here today, and despite reassurances from the staff who run the o2.ie forums, indications were that stock was going to be very limited, particularly of the 32GB model, which is the one I wanted.

Got to the store at 8:15, 15 minutes after they opened. Two members of staff, no customers in sight. They'd sold one 32G model already, and said they'd only had a few delivered.

We asked for a 32GB for me, to be added to Landers' contract as a second line as I don't have a job and wouldn't get a contract approved. After about seven seconds deliberation, Landers decided he wanted one too, and asked for an upgrade for his iPhone. The girl said she'd try her best but she thought it might be limited to one per customer because of the limited supply, which was fair enough.

We filled out some very brief paperwork, and were told to go and have a coffee, she had to fax it off for approval and would call when she heard back from head office.

We went and had breakfast. We had coffee. I put more money in the parking meter. Two hours passed. We went back to the shop, and the girl said she was just about to call us (yeah, right), the fax number was very busy with all the stores trying to get contracts approved, and she hadn't been able to get through. Also, we could only have one phone, like she thought.

We decided to go home, and she said she'd call. This was 10:30am.

Come 3:30pm, I'm starting to get antsy, so I call the store. It rang out.

I try, periodically, for two hours.

No answer.

I appreciate that they are probably busy dealing with customers in-store, but come on, SOMEBODY must be able to answer the phone. They aren't all dealing with customers 100% of the time.

Eventually, I called O2 customer services, pretended to be Landers, and asked about the approval. It went through at 2:30.

So where's my fucking phone call?!

So. It may well be that there is a 32GB black iPhone 3GS waiting for me to collect it in the O2 store on Shop Street in Galway.

Alternatively, it may be that the girl got fed up of waiting for my paperwork to be processed and gave it to the next person who came into the shop looking for one.

We're not prepared to make the 70km round trip (again) just to find it's the latter. I've been calling ever since.

No. Fucking. Answer.

Grraaaaarrrr!

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UPDATE:

I JUST managed to get through, it's all sorted and my phone is still there. I could have picked it up at 2:30. They close at 7. Fucking fuckers. I will be collecting it tomorrow morning.

I shall wait until it's in my hands before I send my strongly worded email.

• 17:13 Ants in my pants! Have the cashola for an iPhone 3GS when they're launched over here tomorrow, but will there be any available?!
• 17:28 Barbecue time! Beefburgers with slices of gouda cheese melting on top and lashings of ketchup. *drool*
• 19:01 Just had a call from O2 IE to say NO pre-order, stores open at 8:30, first come first served. Odd, the email from O2 said stores open at 8.
• 22:19 Unconfirmed reports of Michael Jackson having a cardiac arrest, currently in a very bad way. is.gd/1dslA
• 22:23 Cardiac arrest could be due to an overdose, right? #michaeljackson
• 22:25 Lots of tweets about a sleeping pill overdose for Michael Jackson. Nothing concrete though...
• 22:31 People are tweeting that Michael Jackson is actually dead from an overdose of sleeping pills.
• 23:09 I do feel sorry for his kids, but I can't help but wonder if one of them is a clone...? #michaeljackson
• 23:13 Twitter seems to be struggling under the strain of people tweeting about #michaeljackson.
• 23:23 LA Times saying they have confirmation from City Officials that Michael Jackson has died. #michaeljackson
• 23:27 Why wouldn't Uri Geller comment on when he last heard from #MichaelJackson? Odd.
• 23:46 RT @gjkooijman okay, so MJ died. Shame. Can we now move on instead of pretending to be sad for someone you called Wacko Jacko yesterday?

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• 15:35 2.5 hours until I know whether we can afford to get me an iPhone on Friday...! *crosses fingers and toes*
• 19:58 Off to see Transformers 2 later. I feel like I'm 6 again. *wees with excitement*

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• 13:01 I just bought some herbal sleeping tablets. Reassuringly, the box says "may cause drowsiness".
• 13:16 Oh man, I've got the front door open cos it's so hot, and now the house is full of flies... The downside of being surrounded by fields!

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• 21:11 Just back from dropping off @rowwrites at the airport. Had a lovely weekend, much alcohol and food and fun.

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