I'm looking forward to the newest release of the iPhone operating system. It will have two features that I've missed when switching from my Blackberry to the iPhone.

In reading further, however, it would appear that the two features I'm looking forward to will not be as readily available as I'd like to believe.

From Apple's site (including the footnotes):

"Send MMS messages and include video, photos, audio, and contact info."¹
"Share your Internet connection with your laptop with Internet tethering via Bluetooth or USB."²

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¹MMS support from AT&T coming in late summer.
²Tethering is not currently offered in the U.S. and some other countries. See your carrier for availability.

(Please note, I still do not miss getting work emails on my mobile device. That has managed to maintain its status as a rather pleasant difference between the devices.)

"Just tell me which color of carpet you want. I've attached photos of the swatches to this email," wrote our amazing and wonderfully helpful agent.

It's only been downhill from there. The pictures were from a cell phone under fluorescent light. Everything's blue and recorded at about 100 DPI. The manufacturer of the carpet is apparently the supplier of 80% of all carpets. It appears to be similar to walking into a butcher and asking for, "Meat. From a cow." I tried calling the contractor that's handling carpets for the house, and they're using a private label made just for them. With no images or colors online.

Now we have to wait until Tuesday. On Tuesday, we can talk with someone. This someone will know someone else who can help us eventually make the decision as they look at shipping us the swatches on a 3 foot by 3 foot board. "Nothing overly big." Did I mention that this is a decision we were hoping to have done by last week?

And it was supposed to be such a simple thing.

I had a rough time sleeping last night. And I only just now realized why we have a three day weekend ahead of us.

I can not wait for this all to be over.