Randomness & an RIP

I remember being an Art Major in 1986, looking at a Macintosh and wondering "how do I use this?" I was certain I would never use a computer. I didn't want to. Flash forward 10 years and I am looking at a colourful, inviting desktop and wondering "where's the C:/ drive?" Laughing like crazy when someone shows me how to make the Big Electric Cat belch.

Skip ahead six more years and I'm posting an update to our website as I headed out the door to deliver our first child, and timing contractions two years after that for my second on the internet, at some stopwatch site I'd Googled.

I've been working mostly on Macs since 1996 and they have widened my horizons. When his grandmother first got an iMac, James found PhotoBooth and all the special features,taking pictures  almost immediately. He was 5. I use iTunes for music, watching movie trailers with my husband as a mini date night, and can easily create custom CD mixes for my daughter, who needs her special songs to lull her to sleep. Hello Skype for all our long-distance relatives!

We've seen every Pixar movie made, and love them all.

What would our world have been like, without Steve Jobs?

Rest in Peace, Steve. You have lived a real life and changed the world. And made many of us proud to "Think Different," even before some of us heard about Special Needs for our children.

Apple's home page on October 5, 2011

Familiar Place

Last weekend we visited a place that I used to spend a lot of time when I was their age in the late 60s & early 70s. My childhood house was lost in the Oakland Hills fire in '91. It felt strange to be in a familiar place with the kids, who were my age when I last visited regularly.

What did it look like to them? The views were mostly as I remembered them.

What will they remember from their summer days, 40 years from now?

James and Jimmy

We got some sad news today. James' godfather and great-uncle passed away suddenly this morning.

This is the way I'll remember him -- laughing at a wonderful picnic at the beach two summers ago.



We gave our James extra hugs today. Happy we have him. Because we could not hug the man he was named for. Makes me think of the DMB song "Celebrate we will, for life is short but sweet for certain."