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In the last 24 hours I have had two happy moments.
I have recently bought a Mac Mini for the house so David can do homework on something that I am not waiting for (Powerbook) or that is my work computer (iMac). He is getting to grips with it and is even giving me a list of the games he wants installed and the films he wants to watch on it. It doesn’t seem to bother him that it is in the dining room rather than his room which is good as it is supposed to be for the whole family.
Last night I stayed with him to demonstrate how iTunes works and to delete some songs from his Nano to make room for new material. When I set up the Nano last year for him I lumbered him with MY favourite songs without even asking him if he liked them. Some needed to come off. So last night I explained Smart Playlists to him which he thought were magical and then ordinary Playlists. He caught on very quickly. I showed him how to select multiple songs in a row holding down the shift key and also how to select many individual songs by holding down the Windows key. I’m sorry. You read that correctly. It is an old Windows keyboard. We wont be able to afford a new Apple keyboard for a wee while. Much as I hate the thought of my fingers having to touch a Windows key rather than an Apple / Command key. Look. I did my best by insisting on a Mac Mini – he could have been using his brand new Tesco PC Laptop at half the price of the Mini – I think I did well side stepping that one. . . .
So. Back to the Playlist. I showed him how to rearrange the songs alphabetically by song or by artist. I went straight to Chris de Burgh, highlighted them and said “You can get rid of a whole artist if you like,” right clicked and went to Delete.
“NoooOOOOoo what are you DOING???”
“Deleting all the Chris de Burgh songs. You don’t like them do you?”
“YESSSS I LOVE HIM!”
Ahhhhh. My work here is done. *beams madly*
Then this morning I was cleaning out the chickens when I noticed Izzie doing the “I’m about to lay” dance around the shed. I have seen her doing this before but you may remember that Izzie was the girl we got at the Poultry Fair and quickly decided we had been sold a pig in a poke – she seemed to not want to lay, probably because she was too old but I loved her anyway and made her my favourite girl – she IS gorgeous looking. Then all of a sudden she pushed an egg out! Just like that! And by the looks of the colouring and size of the egg it would seem she has been producing for us for the past couple of weeks and we didn’t even know it! I thought it the other ones were Buffy’s!
YAY to Izzie. YAY to Smart Playlists and YAY to Chris.