Maxx is Such a Trooper

I heart Maxx, my Mac. I heart the Genius Bar at the Apple Store. Over the weekend, I moved all my music to an external hard drive to make room for the system upgrade (Leopard) and last night, in a fit of boredom, I decided to put all of nephew JJ's music into iTunes, and when I fired up iTunes it was -- horrors! empty. Devoid of all music, audiobooks, little movie clips - all of it. Even though I had made sure that the program knew where I had moved the music to. Or so I thought. I immediately went to the Apple Store website, made an appointment for this afternoon, arrived a half hour early which is when I saw someone, and in minutes, all was well again. The guy also showed me where to buy more RAM (since they no longer sell it for Maxx) and how to install it myself. And how to install the Leopard upgrade.

*sigh*

In other news, I've been reading more of those student projects, and except for that minority of, let's face it, dopes, who handed it in late and don't understand why that should matter, or who uploaded it to the completely wrong place and don't understand why I didn't look there as well as where I told them to upload it to, they are really quite good. And fun to read. One kid's grandfather (or great-) was a general in Peru. Another one's served in the Korean War -- in the Korean army. (We have an extremely diverse student body.) Probably the most unusual ethnic origin was the kid whose grandma and grandpa are from France! We don't see that one much. We also have many, many kids with a fairly direct connection to the World Trade Center, parents or relatives who worked there or across the street, or whatnot. Kids who saw the smoke from their backyards. Anyway, a lot of the projects are very well done and often amusing, in a cute way.

19 days. I'm just saying.

Okay, I'm off to call R, who stayed home with the sniffles today.



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