“Helping someone else through difficulty is where civilization starts,” Mead said.

Advocate for your child. It may not be your kid, it might be the system they are in.

It is a sad truth but hard to accept: well-meaning people may be the problem.

I have an irregular habit of building artist discography playlists. Tonight’s quick project was the U2 I have collected. I am consistently and continually amazed at how a series of songs will bring me back to experiences I had forgotten about from times in my life long past.

Complaints aside about picking up where I left on on MacOS, I’m glad I have my MacBook back. Using a Mac is just as lovely as ever.

Getting to engage with a fresh install of MacOS, not restoring from backup as I have been working with and relying on iCloud, iCloud Drive and Music Match. Gosh. Syncing back just the meta data for file archives or music libraries takes a while and is not all automatic

Status

Which reminds me: All progress bars lie.

Grateful for AppleCare replacing a damaged display. Clean start with the hard drive wiped for service, but I forgot how for back the original OS was. Currently hammering my internet connection and watching progress bars

Recommend: Sapiens.org

Did you ever have a day at work where you came face to face with change, where the documented processes in the knowledge base are simply wrong because the tools and access needed are different? Today was that day for me. Top to bottom.