Slot machine iBrick

Ok, I lied.  I still don't have a functional iPhone and I'm posting anyway.  This feels like playing some kind of frustrating slot machine.  It already has my X-whopping-dollars of investment already, and now I'm playing a game where I sit with iTunes clicking back and forth between the iTunes Store and the little icon of my iPhone to make it try to connect and re-activate again.  I sit here still playing in the vain hope that somehow before the babysitter arrives and we go off to see Hancock we'll have functional cell phones.

Last time I checked the cell phone would receive calls, but sometime in about 3 hours my Verizon phone will stop working.  I'm hoping there will be a big iPhone payoff before then.