BrockLi Soup

Phone Fumble ‘08 is turning into a real kick in the crotch. More glass has fallen out of the screen, but it still works OK. I had hoped that prices of used iPhones would drop on Craigslist, but if anything, they’ve gone up - the cheapest ones have gone from $200ish to about $350, and there are still a ton of want ads on there. That may be the worst part - I could have turned a profit on the damn thing if I could have kept it off the sidewalk.

It would cost me $200 to cancel my iPhone plan contract and go back to a boring regular phone, and at that price, I may as well just get a new one. Then I find out that 3G is sold out pretty much everywhere, and then I walked home in the rain.

Add all that to the carnival of incompetence on display in the DC bureaucracy throughout the course of changing my name, and some other unpleasantness, and it’s been a crappy week. At this point, I’m really just looking forward to getting out of town for a few days for the Doherty/Friedlander union next weekend.

Upon consideration of the application for the change of name filed herein and no objections having been made and proof of publication having been made and filed herein, and all other requirements appear having been met, it is this 15th day of July, 2008, ORDERED BY THE COURT that the said application be and hereby is granted, and it is further, ORDERED BY THE COURT that henceforth and hereafter Randy Charles Boland be known as Brock Drummond Boland.

For real. I still need to get it changed with Social Security, and then on my driver’s license and everywhere else, but check it out - my name is Brock.