My mac is repaired, but the photo library has nothing in it. Somehow either I or my mac erased four years of pictures. To add insult to injury, my backup program, that I faithfully used everyday, isn’t restoring the pictures. I would be crying my eyes out over the lost photographic bounty if there weren’t a few silver linings to my stormy computer horizon.
I am a prolific techno-crafter. I love to turn photos into DVDS, web albums, etc. I have about six solid DVDS with pictures on them that I have made for father’s day, wedding anniversary, and simply my own pleasure. Therefore, many of the best and most important pictures are still on those DVDs, simply waiting to be reintroduced to my iphoto. I also have several online photo albums set up in my .mac account. These date back years, so they will have many of the most emotionally valuable pictures. I also was able to recover a few hundred photos from other libraries on my mac. Best of all, my iPod has all the photos from 2003 through the beginning of August. I used it as a last ditch back up mechanism, and to show people pictures of the family while I travel.

Of course, now I have to figure out if there is some way to transfer all those lovely images from my iPod back into a form where they can be edited and printed, without eradicating them the moment I plug the iPod into the mac and the auto-update begins.

I am thinking I will see if I can download them on to Lee’s or Marlena’s computer first, as they claim you can use your iPod to transfer files to a new computer, but I am going to wait until my computer-savvy hubby gets here. This little batch of photos would represent my last back up set, so I refuse to touch them without assistance from a professional.

On another upside, there doesn’t seem to be anything wrong with my mac otherwise, it is running just fine and the hard-drive doesn’t seem to be failing. It may just be that something glitched when I uploaded the new iPhoto program. Happily, this means I am back online and able to work (and Blog)!

As a wise anonymous person once said, and this morning is no different! I am so tired, there is simply no way I would be awake at all without my hot, fresh cup of Dunkin Donuts Original Coffee Blend. Mmmm…. coffee.

Why am I so tired? Well thank you for asking!

Oliver went to bed late last night after a couple of attempts at a solid Linda Blair Pea Soup impersonation. I don’t know what was going on with him, he was calm as ever, but after nursing right before bed he smiled, coughed, and spewed about two cups of milk all over the bed, me, and his father. He looked a little surprised for a moment, but then smiled at me.
We cleaned everything up, and of course, he was starving, so we nursed a little more, with frequent breaks for burping. He seemed okay, that is until he coughed, and spewed another copious amount of breastmilk onto the bed. Once again, he was calm as can be.

Thankfully he did not continue to spew, as he was once again hungry, having emptied his tummy completely. Still, it was closer to 1 am before we went to sleep, and 7 am came awfully early this morning.

He seems okay now too, no more exorcist moments, though he is a little tired and cranky from the lack of sleep.

My computer is still iffy, but thankfully my husband has lent me the use of his, so I may continue to publish stories about baby’s bodily fluids!