So today, I ended up getting a new BlackBerry Curve. I’ve only had mine 4 months. Let me first start by saying, i don’t really see this as a huge flaw or warning sign that there are problems with the Curve. I love my Curve and think this is just a fluke accident.

Now let’s get into the story.

As I mentioned earlier, I ended up having problems with my BlackBerry today. It started this morning. Before Coco and I headed out for breakfast and to Verizon to have her phone looked at (hers encountered a liquid spill on Saturday), I decided to finally download the navigation update Sprint has been informing me of. After the update downloaded it wanted to reboot to install, which is normal. After the reboot I got an error that said “App error 200″ and prompted me to retry. Retry simply reboots the phone again. It kept failing. After several attempts to turn off the phone, turn back on, pull the battery out, and so forth, it got to the point where it wouldn’t even turn off. Now I was without a phone. This is almost a matter of life or death.

I dropped it off at Sprint and they said it would be two hours so I went off with Coco to Verizon and to get her rental car. It had been a couple hours by the time this was finished so I headed back to Sprint. As they are bringing out the bin with my phone in it, I notice a new phone box. I also notice my phone with the same white error screen being displayed.

I couldn’t help but laugh. That’s one f’ed up navigation install. I asked the representative what happened. She said that they weren’t unable to fix the error message so they have to give me a new phone. We were both giggling at the fact that this happened over an app install, and one that was a sprint app at that.

I lost all my pics, including my wallpapers and my ones from All-Star Weekend. I also lost my ringtones. However, I have updated software and firmware on my new phone so that is definitely a bonus. I didn’t have to install Google Maps myself and now I have a 2nd navigation app if needed. I was able to install most of my apps I had before by the time I got home. I’ve changed most of the settings and have downloaded new wallpaper. The only thing I have left is custom ringtones and I’m sure that will happen in time.

I’m glad I have my phone back. I also find this whole incident incredibly ridiculous.

Last night was my company party (or division rather) at Dave and Busters and it was a blast. The whole building was blocked off for just our party and we got quite a bit of money on our game cards. Somewhere around 9pm, one of my friends and I decided to play Skee Ball, a favorite past time of mine, while the boys played shoot ‘em up games.

Although I love Skee Ball, I am not very good at it. Typically it’s about the same result as bowling.. an average of a little over 100. However, on this particular night, a hit a “lucky streak.” Jessy and I decided we wanted to score 550, because according to the sign, if you did you received 1000 tickets. Now of course, neither of us realistically thought this would happen. I think my high was somewhere around 230, that is until the game I scored 60 on the first roll.

And yes, I know what you are saying. There is no way to score 60 on the first roll in Skee Ball. Normally you would be correct, but not in this particular game. Not only did a roll of 10 points give me 60, but I then proceeded to receive about 100 points per roll. I believe at one point I turned my back to the game to try to get someone else’s attention, and I was told it went up to 800 and back down to about 300 (this was my 3rd roll). At the end of this hilarious event that had me literally on the floor laughing, I ended up with over 900 points. It looked like i had hit the jackpot at a casino. It started flashing and just spewing out tickets. The ticket process took over 5 minutes if I had to guess. It was ridiculous. At the end of the night I had a bouquet of tickets in one of the cups that I think is supposed to be for tokens!

After a comment from a friend, I have decided that this is definitely a fail moment, but a priceless one. What did I get with the tickets you ask? Well I combined them with others for a grand total of a little over 2000 out of the four of us. We put them back into an investment into our department in the form of a fantastic “spinna necklace” and two dog tags.. one of Biggie and one of Nelly… oh and a small hot pink plastic frog.

I wish I had video taped the scoreboard, which was literally insane. Instead I only got the first shot.