I actually went to pre-order the iPad 2 at 1am this morning, but was put off by the 2-3 week waiting period before it would be shipped. Nah, I wanted one today!

So I breezed through all of the work that I had to do today, and started lining up at 3pm at the Bondi Junction Apple Store, sales of the iPad 2 started at 5pm, and I had my white 64GB iPad 2 in my hand and out the door by 7pm. I bought the pink Smart Cover, HDMI adapter, and a prepaid Telstra microSIM.

I like how Apple employees went through the line at around 4pm and gave out tickets corresponding to the iPad models that everyone wanted, so they were able to tell us early on which models would be sold out before we made it into the store. The white iPads seemed to be selling like hotcakes: the 16GB and 32GB 3G ones were allocated to people in the queue before me – lucky I wanted the 64GB one

Having a chair and a good book was also invaluable for alleviating achy feet and boredom, and I made sure my bladder was good and empty before I started lining up! The Apple employees gave out bottles of water to people in line, but I didn’t drink any until after I had my iPad in hand

Now I’m going through and customising my new toy, finding good apps to install and some nice wallpapers to personalise it with. A good way to spend a Friday night, I think