I got to the office early yesterday morning. Early by even my standards. It was 8am and I was in the zone. I called Vodafone. It was the anniversary, it was my upgrade date. However, when I first called the computer system was down. The guy was going to call me back in 10 minutes but as I expected, he didn’t. So I called back just before 9am and ordered my N73. It would be delivered first thing in the morning. I then thought that at lunchtime I would order my case and docking station (for the car) in preparation. I headed over to Proporta. I had already bought the Tom Tom travel kit for my sister’s Tom Tom over Christmas. I also knew what I was going to purchase, I had checked them out a few weeks ago. The N73 flip case and the magnetic dock for the car. I then had to clean my current phone, ready to hand over to my Dad when I got home. When I got home, I could not find the Nokia 6230 software disc, so opted to download the software from the web site. I then made a backup of my contacts. Everything else was wiped, messages, images, wap bookmarks. Then, in a moment that hinted of freak paranoia, I also merged my contacts with Outlook Express. A fall safe, in case my backup did not transfer across onto the new phone. It was a good option in the end, as I do not use Outlook Express on my work laptop and it will enable me to have an electronic copy for future reference. For the record, I have 133 contacts of which perhaps only 10% I actually speak to on a regular basis. Then it was the moment, I reset my phone using the reset to factory settings option. It was a strange moment, as my phone completely cleared of everything. I removed my SIM card, took my phone and placed it on the table in the lounge. I had got ordered the wonderful 6230 back on Friday 24th August 2004, over two years and two hundred and thirty days ago. I was to be phone less (on a personal level) until sometime later this morning. As I pulled into the office seconds after 8am, I noticed the Parceline delivery van by reception. That is my phone I thought. Sure enough it was and I picked up the package a few minutes later. However, I had to head into training, so just had time to open the packaging and put the phone on charge. I spoke to Pav via MSN at lunchtime and he wanted me to give him the firmware software version so he could find out if it needed to be upgraded. I had decided to upgrade the firmware when i got home, as Nokia have provided a USB data cable. (Remember the days, some six or seven years ago, when you had to buy these things separately?). I then had to get back to my training, so had to rush offline and put the phone away in my pocket. Pav is going to “pimp” my phone for me and convert it to the Music Edition, free of charge. This will involve me getting the black fascia from eBay. Then Pav will do the firmware upgrade to the Music Edition version, plus I need to get a Mini SD card. I was looking at 1 gigabyte but 2 gigabyte is affordable and even 4 gigabyte is available and slowly dropping in price. However, I think those luxuries can wait for a while. They are not top of the shopping list. In my notes I have written ‘busy working week ahead’ but it is almost over. I have the final part of my training tomorrow and then am off across the border to Bonnie Scotland on Friday to see a client. Then I fly back to Manchester to spend the weekend there with a friend and I am looking forward to it. Not much planned really but I am sure it will involve some shopping and a trip to the cinema. Then on Sunday, I’m booked on a train home at 2pm which should get into Wycombe around 5.30pm.