Kayaks and Technology Progress

Well we have just had some more snow in Colorado but spring is already well along and our thoughts are turning to kayaking and mountain biking. I have another month here then I need to return home to dental surgery(again arrggh) and medical appointments. Siiigghhh!   Oh well I seem to be improving so I should be happy about that despite the slow progress. I’m itching to get back to work but Rick is wary of my ability to sustain any effort at the moment.

Rick gave me a kayak for Valentine’s Day and we have been learning to eskimo roll in a local swimming pool. I am, as usual, the slow learner of the group but Rick has once again ‘tweaked’ my training to make it easier for me to learn the movements I need to integrate into the whole.

We have had a pleasant break from filming video footage so far this season. However we need to get back into it soon.

Apple have been very ‘helpful’ this season. I put my laptop in to repair a faulty trackpad. While they were doing that I requested a removal and reinstall of my Quicktime as it would not play any video. Apple support forums and customer service on telephone had suggested this solution. Apple kindly formatted my hard-drive to do this! No ‘archive and install’, no back-up data and replace – did not even inform me that they would do this although I had expressly told them that my back-up drive was in Australia and I could not access it for 3 months!

Eventually after much ‘gentle cajoling’ they did agree for the Australian store to copy the back-up drive if I could get my Mum to transport it to them. Then I had Mum post the copy drive here(expensive) and we got all the data reinstalled.

We are told this is a new policy from apple – to not archive and install but to format drives and install fresh OS for all software related issues. So beware when taking a Mac in for a ‘simple’ service issue it may come back stripped! (Even if you are overseas)