I’m number ninety six in line. I’m about half way up, so I expect
there’s about 200 people here. The Apple guys have been by to pick
up trash and hand out slurpees (very nice!). They said we’d “be
fine” so I expect that the inventory is good. There’s lots of news
crews and reporters working the lines as well. People keep showing
up.

The security guards for the mall came by a while back and gave us
“the rules” regarding saving places, etc. People can swap in and out
of line, but if they try and save places for more people than are in
line, security will kick them out.

Rummors were that the Cingular store a block away didn’t have much of
a line, so a bunch of people jumped out a few hours ago and went
there. Some of them came back later–apparently the Cingular store
only had like 20 phones, so when […]