Eight hours to go

Well I have just come back in from social engagements - but on my return leg I dropped into my local shopping mall - that by my count has no less than five locations to buy an iPhone in eight hours time.

Now one of those is an Apple store which I won't be able to use for my upgrade. However there is then another outlet nearby that I can use.

After skulking about the place I approached a friendly looking security lady. She was extremely helpful and contacted their control - who confirmed that stores were opening at 0802. No one was queueing yet and nobody was going to be able to queue quite yet and not remaining on the malls overnight.

She let me know I can probably get in from 0600 tomorrow - slightly earlier than usual to accommodate the stores that are opening early.

What was interesting is that the other evening I commented that you could see minions cleaning the Apple store through the shutters - well tonight, they've hung thick black curtains behind shutter - blocking even that.