25 Billion Strong

Momoko informed me that Apple was getting close to its 25 billionth app download in its app store. To celebrate, it was giving away a $10,000 app store credit to the person who downloads the 25 billionth app. I saw that 500 apps were being downloaded per second. At that rate, it would take about 10 days to hit 25 billion.

Momomoko kept asking me how the downloads were doing. Each time I would calculate how much time it would take before the 25 billionth app was hit. Last night the apps were being downloaded much fast. I figured it would take 2 to 3 hours to hit the mark. We prepared our downloads.

The app store was very slow. Momoko queued up a few apps to download. The first one seemed to take forever to download. When we got within an estimated 30 minutes to go, I tried as well. It took a while, but I queued up around 6 apps to download. As we got closer to the 25 billionth mark, I started initiating even more downloads.

I tried out a couple apps that installed successfully. Most got deleted right away. I hate when they take a long time to load, or have errors connecting to some server. So far the only one tested that I may keep is Sloto Mania. However that one sends me annoying messages even when I am not playing it. If that keeps up, it goes to the bit bucket too.

Fence Repair

Last week I called up a fence company. I had their guy come out to provide another estimate on our fence repair. I told him he was out before, and now I had the money to pay him. He said prices had gone up.

I asked him how he could lower the new price back to the original estimate he gave me. He said they could not haul away the old broken fence, and it was save me a bunch of money. I wrote him a check. He said the install people would call me within a week.

A week later, I had not heard anything about my fence repair. So I called the guy up. He was surprised the installation team did not call me. He got them to schedule a time to come fix my fence. Later I got a call saying they had to reschedule. They said they don't install fences in the rain. Finally today I got home and we had a new section of fence. Little Kat says it looks funny because the new wood color does not look like the rest of our fence. I like it though. The old fence was broken in many places due to a tree falling down.

Next step is to find some money to add a new fence in the far back of our yard. A lot of our property is unfenced. Time to fence it in.