At last

Summer!

Last seen 1976.

Upgrade, downgrade, retrograde

Well I knew it was going to be a bore,

but with more and more of my usual processes being given

the computer says, 'No' treatment,

I made a last ditch attempt to bring my old Mac up to date

with its first ever upgrade to El Capitan.

It didn't like it one bit.

It groaned and protested and chucked a spinning beach ball around all night.

Then it said it couldn't find my Bluetooth keyboard or mouse

but would I please enter my password.

So my son kindly sent away for the plug in variety of both

and we were back on speaking terms.

But another part of the problem lay in my extensive photo collection

happily housed in carefully labelled Events in iPhoto.

Now they have been ported into a new library called Photo

and it as if the whole lot were chucked into the air

and then randomly stuffed into shoe boxes 

called Moments, Albums and Collections.

I hardly dare to upload a photo here,

because it must laboriously search for every single picture taken since 2008,

playing with the beach ball all the while, 

and then I must try to find one to illustrate my bon mots.

But I'm going to give it a go

because otherwise it's all up with this blogging business

and back to pen and paper diaries.

 Well worth the wait.

I think I deserve a little flowery crown too.