What a stupid easy life I have!  I float along for weeks… and months… and years… smacking my computer keys and bellowing into my microphone and mixing with my fancy wigwobbies and turnee doodies and reverbalaybafuzzies…

… and then one day, let’s call it ‘two days ago,’ my OS decides to just not work anymore.  Mostly work, sure, but suddenly iTunes and my web browser won’t work.  Suddenly I’m paralyzed, immobilized, submissionized by wayward technology.  Not only can I not do my job, I can’t check my EMAIL!  When I attempt to circumnavigate the problem and use an alternate web browser, I can check email, but the sports highlights on ESPN.com won’t play!  MY LIFE IS SO HARD!!!!

Fine, I take it to the apple store, just reinstall the OS and you’ll be fine says they, so I do.  iTunes now works!

But lots of other stuff… does not.  Run updates, re-install stuff, blah blah blah, 12 hours later, everything works!

But Pro Tools… does not.  For the projects I’m working on right now – projects with deadlines, and clients – Pro Tools is pretty much vital.  No problem, I’ll just re-install THAT.  Up pops the ‘enter authorization code’ screen.  Enter authorization code I do.  ’You’re not valid’ says the screen.  

This happens at 11 pm Friday night.  Customer service hours?  M-F 8-5.  My outlook?  Two full days of waiting for them to open so I can call them to plead mercy.

So what do I do instead?  I set up a blog.

So, you may have seen this:

But have you seen THIS: