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The good folks from the Apple Store kept us hydrated.

As we inched toward technological bliss, the line behind us grew. There were over 600 people by 9:00!

A pre-chicken-biscuit J observes the carnage in silence.

Meanwhile, we received an update from Objective-F, our man in the trenches at Fair Oaks Mall in Fairfax, Virginia where the scene looked even harrier.

A post-chicken-biscuit J, mentally accelerated from the MSG infusion.

Although we spent a considerable amount of time activating the phones due to AT&T's usual tomfoolery, the result was a happy Ol' Dad, an ecstatic Mama, a giddy Babycakes and a tickled yet bleary-eyed J ;)

We spent the rest of the day watching ourselves roam around the house via the built-in GPS ;)

Objective-F snapped this pic at the Moscone Center in San Francisco this evening, confirming rumors that the sun rises and sets in the Apple logo ;)

We sequestered the G5 and wiring in the closet then flush mounted the Apple Cinema Display to the wall.

The G5 now resides in the closet along with the Epson AcuLaser and Stylus Pro printers.

Apple Time Capsule router/1 terabyte NAS, Apple AirPort Express, Netgear gigabit switch, Speakercraft BB1265 amplifier and Panamax Max1000+ are now in stealth mode as well.

We like the rig for now but there are rumblings of rack-mounting the Speakercraft amp in the theater and perhaps upgrading the G5 to an eight processor (!) Mac Pro. Maybe when that other house finally sells...

Last week I swapped out the trusty Sunfire Theater Grand IV for an Onkyo Pro PR-SC885P. I've been hankering for HDMI switching, Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD for when we get a Blu-Ray player. The Onkyo has 192k/24 bit Burr-Brown DACs on each channel, automatically sets up an acoustic profile of the room via Audyssey and is THX Ultra2 certified! You can read a more thorough review at UltimateAVMag.

Seventeen inches of rack-mountable swank.