Oh my. I didn't realize the heavens were going to open up when I invited iCloud onto my Mac Sunday night. Installing Mountain Lion was such an ordeal that I stayed away from the computer for the past two days. Tonight I ventured back onto it. Oh my.
When my desktop opened, my text messages from my phone were on it. Fifteen minutes later I found the culprit. A little messenger guy that now sits on my desktop. I didn't sign up for him, but there he is delivering me my text messages from Siri on my iPhone.
Next I opened my email. Oh my. Oh my, my, my. It was now in the format that appears on the iPad. I don't have an iPad. I'm not familiar with this. When I clicked on a message with the subject RE: Hi, not only did I get that message, but below it was every message I ever got with that subject line – all the way back to 2008. Way much more than what I bargained for!
While all of this was going on, in the upper right hand corner of my screen, new email messages and alerts from my phone were popping up and then disappearing. It now appears my phone is on my computer. I really expected my computer to ring if I got a phone call.
I still had much to do on the computer tonight, but this was already too much. Besides, I'm not allowed wine during the week, so further cloud exploration is going to have to wait until the weekend.
A really great thing I found on Twitter? Alicia Keys flipping the switch to light the Empire State Building illuminating it with the new LED lights. The really cool part was the lights, which are now computer controlled, played along with her new song Girl On Fire and her old song Empire State of Mind. Very, very cool. Take a break with me and just enjoy the video in the article below.
And so, as another day goes by, when learning a new thing it's important to know your limits, step away, and enjoy something totally irrelevant, and…I have written.
PS – I wrote this blog on my phone, saved it to Typepad, then went back to the computer to insert this link – when I got to the computer the screensaver would not go away when I moved the mouse or touched the keyboard. I had to shut the whole computer off and restart it. I think I'm gonna need a lot of wine for the weekend. Enjoy Alicia…..this is so cool on the big computer screen!
Alicia Keys, "Girl On Fire", lights up Empire State Building
Photo: Bryan Smith
Just in case you're considering entering the cloud………
Love this post, Linda! xo