I’ll admit it. I finally joined the iPhone nation a week ago after my father offered to buy one for me. My last phone was about 3 years old and the airport was starting to take its toll on it. Already this blasted thing is sucking the life out of me.

Now I have the Internet at my fingertips, along with instant access to thousands of gizmos that can do just about everything — including the one I’m using to write this blog post — and the entire iTunes store. It was about two years before I started using all the features of my last phone. It took me all of two days with this one.

I’ve already downloaded several games that have been highly entertaining, an app for tracking and sending prayers, one for tracking car expenses, and even one simply to take and categorize notes.

The only complaint I have right now is that the battery life tend to be rather short, and the car charger for my old iPod doesn’t work with it, but I’ll be getting one for it soon. Now if I could only pry it out of my own hands for more than two minutes.