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Had a bit of overtime last week. They gave me some extra projects to work on. Extra work sucks, but the overtime pay is worth it, even if it’s only an extra 6 hours. It’ll help pay off that iPhone.

Playstation 3 is $499 now, which was very tempting to me. There’s also a 5 free blu ray movies offer, that sweetens the deal. But I figured hey, I don’t have to get it now the $499 will be permanent. Not so fast, it seems they are clearing out all the 60 gb PS3′s for $499, and then introducing a 80 gb PS3 at the $599 price again. So even more tempting to get it now while the price is low. But alas, I’m still not sold on it.

I saw the Harry Potter movie for a 2nd time today with a friend. And I got the book yesterday. It came on time, but I didn’t read it right away. I read the first 4 chapters today, and so far so good. The movie is good too, especially the climax, much better than the book was. The 5th book was probably the most boring book, but proved to be one of the more exciting movies. Same thing happened with the Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers. Book dragged, movie excited. I played a bit of the video game too heh. It’s okay, alot of running around and pointless errands. Back to the book now.

I got the iPhone yesterday during work hours. I heard they got shipments in today and called the closest Apple store. I left work and bought 2 and came back in 30 minutes. Both are 8 gig phones. My credit cards are crying. So far, the phone is awesome. Only typing on it is really difficult, and it should’ve came with an iChat app. Also, I wish it allowed downloadable programs because this webapp thing is really dumb. And it won’t sync Firefox bookmarks. Only used it for a day so I’ll have to test it out a bit more. I still don’t have my phone number transfered yet. So I can’t receive calls on it.

Didn’t really do anything for 4th of July this year. Wasn’t in the mood for fireworks anyway. Just went with the girlfriend and my brother to the mall. She bought clothes, I ate pretzels. Then I just hung out at home. Watched Hannibal Rising. Wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be. Gong Li is pretty hot for an older lady.

Haven’t had a chance to see Transformers yet. Well I had a chance, but declined it. I want to see it soon though. The previous weekend I saw Ratatouille. It was great, probably my favorite movie of 2007. I want to see it again actually.

I brought my Wii drive to work to see if anyone can repair my poor job on trying to mod it. Hopefully I can get it back this week with mod working. Not that it matters too much, there aren’t a ton of games on the Wii that I must play. But who knows, the install base is getting so big that developers should be jumping on it… right? Wii’s are still sold out at many places. It’s kinda ridiculous.

My gf and I are going to get iPhones. She needs to switch to AT&T anyway because work will cover the plan for her. Too bad we decided too late and all the stores are sold out. Guess we’ll just order it. It’s expensive I know, and probably not really worth it, but it’s the coolest phone out there. There are rumors that Google will be coming out with a phone or phone OS or something. Hopefully it’s not rainbow colored.