It all started with the cloud. I wanted to find my cloud stuff in iTunes and iPhoto. No clouds. I went into my settings and all I had was Mobile Me. I clicked on that and got an error. It was gone. I vaguely remember an email that moved me from Mobile Me to iCloud a few months ago. So where are these clouds on my Mac?
I venture I to the Apple site to investigate and find that computers not running OSX 10.8 and higher don’t support iCloud. Mine is 10.7. Missed it by a tenth. So what is the remedy? I need to download a new operating system – Mountain Lion. I must change my Snow Leopard into a Mountain Lion. I was instantly filled with dread. I have changed many operating systems over the years, on both PC’s and Macs. It’s not always good. I hit the download button, then hit the wine bottle. This cannot be done without red wine. Sorry. I know I gave it up, but this is Mountain Lion and it sounds dangerous.
45 minutes later it installed itself and I’m ready to log on. So far, so good. I wait for my desktop to load. It does so seamlessly. My calendar pops up – uh oh. No To Do’s on the side of the calendar. I never kept things to do on that “to do” list – I kept the passwords to everything in the world on it. More wine. Came back. I’m a little sweaty and shaky. I notice this thing called Reminders on my new desktop. I click and there they were. My passwords. I need to find a new place for these. Phew. Dodged a big one there.
Then I try to open all my manuscripts for my books and query letters. They don’t open. I look at the desktop and Microsoft Word has an circle with a line through it. Mountain Lion doesn’t support word. I shake more and sweat more. More wine.
I go out to the kitchen and my husband asks me how it’s going. I just tell him I need more wine. Back to the Apple site. I find out that I need to download a new word processor called Pages. $19 more dollars. (Mountain Lion cost 19 too). I downloaded it, and hooked it up to the cloud, dragged my manuscripts into it and they opened up beautifully. Phew. Dodged another one. More wine.
I shut down the computer and stumble out to my chair feeling very weak and shaky. Isn’t it too bad what loss of technology can do to a person? Make one drink too much wine.
I thought I was done until I got the idea to see if the new Pages has a Mobile App. It did. 10 more dollars. (So far, not counting the wine, this has been a $50 night just to get in the almighty cloud.) But the mobile app is fantastic. All my manuscripts are on both my phone and computer and any changes I make are automatically saved on both. And Pages is a beautiful program. So easy to create documents with pictures, templates, and special effects. I was very happy in the end – more wine to celebrate my success.
And so, as another day goes by, I’m sorry to admit technology does rule my life, but at least it’s compatible with wine, and….I have written.
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