A local MUG (Mac User Group) gathered this week and I joined five other Macheads to see what we could garner from each other in information and support. The session was mainly made up of exchanging how long we had Macs, what they were and how many. I was the only one there that had a single unit. One guy said he had nine! Another guy had lots of other equipment as he was in the business of reproducing videos. I watched as one of them showed another how to slow down a transition in an iMovie presentation. Fascinating! Less than two hours later I had learned something that had frustrated me in iPhoto and I had failed to find in Help!
The sad tale of my anguish at being without my Mac for a month was met with a terse "you need another one for backup!"
In the realm of it's a small world department, chap who has nine Macs is the son of the techie who had repaired my iBook.

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Frustration mounts as I wait impatiently for the repair of my computer. After four weeks it is getting to be a ritual where I call my service provider and am told there is yet another delay. This time it's a different problem. The technician who works on this compliicated repair - replacement of video screen - cannot drive to workplace due to back problems but is willing to do the job at home. This means said laptop must be transported several kms to his abode and, eventually, repaired item must be picked up and returned to head office. All very reasonable but does nothing for my temperament. This borrowed unit on which I write, an ancient Performa, has saved my sanity allowing me to check messages and reply to urgent ones. All current projects, however, are inaccessible and therefore on hold.
The upside of this episode is that I have cleared a five-drawer filing cabinet of extraneous material gathered over the past 40 years or so. A trip down memory lane while doing this has given me several ideas for my web site as well as this blog.
Stay tuned.

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