Well it has finally happened. I had to erase my computer and start anew. Every now and then tecnology in one area in our life spills over into other areas and requires us to update everything in order for the new thing to do what it is supposed to.

I’ve got the Iphone 3Gs because I use the video function quite a bit. and with the diarycoming back online witha  video everyday I use it more then most.

The idea is I shoot a video about everything I do that day cut it all together and post a in the life of Danny type thing sponsored by whomever… The sponsors have all lined up only thing is I can’t edit the videos because my computer is runing Ilife4. I need ilife8 or newer to recognize video files. Currently I only see the .jpeg files.

So I update ($108, and 30minutes)  I install the patches and updates  (80 minutes and 6 restarts). and what do I get.  Nothing, I also have to update my Operating software. Apparently I’m running tiger and I need Leopard,  Actually Snow Leopard would be ideal but my computer is so old it wont be able to handle the “snow Leopard.” Fucking Cat fetish asshole programmer.

So another $100 or so dollars if my friend Alex didn’t already have it and I didn’t get it for free, take that technology, he gets to put it on 5 computers and I talked him into letting me have it for a beer.  Because that was about what its worth to me.

So I install Leopard, a little way in it tells me it’s going to erase my computer and start over. I didn’t back up this book I’ve been writing so I try to get out of the startup and back up the book. There is no back up button only a keep going button. So I go to the file page and request the computer to restart from the HD and not the Disk.

this causes the computer to flash at me make a noise and turn off. Then it wouldn’t turn on. The geniuse bar is only as good as being able to erase and start over. There one size fits all solution is erase and start over. So that’s what happened.

I lost the book, about 160 pages of garbage I should have rewritten anyway… and my editing program. Final cut express.

I might need to buy it again if i can’t find it somewhere.

So to be able to  edit the video files on my phone, I traded my way to edit them and a book that I was writing, but have the latest Leopard back ground.

I would have lost more, but I backup pictures, and videos daily…

so what did we learn,

Anytime you do anything new, with old technology, it erases all that you have learned.

-d

Ok, so it might be a little early to say that but what’s the big deal? What changed?

I was at the shopping market getting some chicken for a sammish and this dude steppes on my shoe. I was about to get postal and fuck up his day, but decided that was “2009″ not “2010″. 2010 is different, then it hit me.

The past carries over as long as we carry it.

New Year be damned we are still the same fucked up individuals we were.

Some of us might be able to pull of the hokus pokus and change our lives, but that comes from a need far greater than any New Year celibration can muster.

Real self realization comes not at the end of a communal year but at the end of a very personal ordeal that tests our views and boundaries.

So I ask people what is with all the delusional new years bull shit.

I reinvent myself very fucking day. Every motherfucking day I wake up and think…

Fuck…

Today is a mother fucking gift,

Today I can be excelent,

Today I will rise to the occasion that has become my life.

So I punched the guy in the dick and told him to watch his fucking step as he hit the floor in the bread isle.

-d

PS your welcome

thanks again,

-d