Tonight was the night to record my last After Effects class — Brian Higgins, AE monster and guest lecturer, could only do it on Friday night around 6pm. Sure, I said.

I forgot that Friday = June 29th.

But good friend who shall remain nameless ( but whose initials might include the letters M & S ) had just gotten out of jail (OK, I exaggerate) and said “what are you thinking…..After Effects should wait. You crazy?” (Also, possibly exaaggerate). But I said — no. I am a man of principle. fxphd postgrads deserve better — I absolutely must get the class out before the end of week 10.

So I record the class, deciding to buy my phone online. In fact, you’ll notice at one point during the afx221 class that I get busted for being online trying to buy a phone instead of paying attention to what Brian was saying.

But we wrap at 8 and decide to drop by the flagship Apple store on Michigan Avenue in Chicago. No line. Walk up — an Apple employee with a wireless device brings me my phones (yes, 2) and checks me out. Takes 5 minutes. Golden.

I open up the box, hook it up to my MacBook Pro. iTunes starts (I downloaded new version earlier in the day)….taking me to the activation page for the phone. I select existing customer and a (cheaper) data plan. Done. My phone has my old number in about a minute — and my contacts and calendard are already there.

And fxphd.com looks beautiful. It’s why I got it you know….to make sure the site works on the version of Safari on the phone. Its the only reason of course.

I made the right choice.

Karma. 😉

What’s that you say? OK … I’ll get back to editing the class. And this blog back on topic.