Yesterday, Copacabana was shrouded in sea mist. Very reminiscent of San Francisco, only the air and water temperatures were much warmer. This photo shows it starting to burn off.
And for the past few days, the Serendipity Studio, has been covered by a technological fog – the kind that hovers around setting up a new computer: dealing with 12+ years of data, documents and photos; testing old software with new operating systems; retrieving serial numbers; researching and installing new software; consolidating back ups in a systematic fashion; and synching e-mail accounts and calendars across devices. This takes a certain resolve but I think I am through the hard part.
My last big computer migration was precipitated by a dramatic zapping in an electrical storm in January 2009. This time I am being marginally more pro-active. My aging laptop has various niggles: a defunct battery that rendered it non-portable; a non-supported operating system (XP); excrucatingly slow start-up; a string of error messages on shut-down; overheating issues especially in warmer weather; and erratic blue screen moments. Now I have added a MacBook Pro 13″ Retina to this household’s ever-increasing family of Apple devices. Transitioning to different systems always involves burning new neural pathways;and developing new work flows and muscle memory. But then the fog lifts and you see the world brightly again.