i broke my iPhone.

i am a mac.

i love the company. i follow it blindly. i consciously choose to ignore any other technology company's products.

and you know what? i like it this way.

unfortunately, just this sunday, i dropped my iPhone. the very same iPhone that i camped out for almost 2 years ago. well, i've gotten free replacements since then, but the model is the same.

my iPhone is my baby. people joke and question, "what would you do without it?" or, "trevor, could you even live without that phone?"

i calmly respond, "i don't know. let's not go there, " and, "no." respectively.

so when i watched my iPhone drop those fateful two feet, i thought nothing of it. i had dropped it before, from higher places, onto harder surfaces.

it was when i turned the phone over, and saw the spider web of cracks on the front glass, that i just about died.

i'm very serious about this.

mock me, fine. i love this phone.

so i quickly ran through options in my head, "what's next?" was the theme of the internal debate.

i thought about selling it.
i've sold iPhones before, and i know i could have turned a quick $200 by giving my baby away to a stranger in New Jersey.

i thought about just dealing with the cracks.
but that wouldn't work. eventually, the broken glass always presses down onto the digitizer (thing that responds to your touch), making the phone unresponsive. it would then push down onto the LCD, and once both of those are cracked, well you're out of luck.
and let's be honest, nobody likes looking at a piece of broken glass.

i thought about fixing it.
what?

so i'm going to fix it. i ordered my replacement front glass and digitizer from amazon ($14), and it should be here in the next week.

surgery takes place the night it arrives, and i'd love for you to join.

if this works, i'm all for fixing anyone else's broken apple products. i've replaced batteries, and i've upgraded parts. and after next week, i'll have replaced the screen on my iPhone.