Applewood

So at the risk of this becoming a blog about my sick iPhone obsession, I’ll relate today’s iPhone moment: I’m at the BevMo looking for reasonably-priced wine for Josh and Adrie’s wedding brunch, checking some notes I e-mailed myself on the phone, when it starts to buzz and I get an e-mail from google alerting me that the long awaited announcement of the ticketing procedure for Barack Obama’s DNC’s acceptance speech had just been made at a Colorado news conference. I tapped — yeah, that’s the new click — the link for the story in the Merc and then tapped a link at the end of story which took me to a page that let me select my home state and gave me a phone number to call to get in line for the tickets. I tapped the number and the phone dialed it right up and in less than 90 seconds, I was giving the DNC my info for a ticket. So less than five minutes after the story moved on the wires, from a liquor store in Long Beach, I was already in line for my ticket. Ah, that apple feeling — tingly!

End notes: 1. Tickets will be free. And the DNC will begin giving them out beginning August 12 — when they will be calling or e-mailing me and the 69,999 other people who will make it in. 2. I got this cool protector film for my iPhone screen — and it’s genius! Protects the screen, reduces glare, adds traction — very sweet. You want it.