Mid Life Crisis!
I've got a new Apple Mac and I can't stop talking about it. Ok, I can hear you - the triumph of image over substance - but I don't care. My Apple is just wonderful. It makes me feel trendy and that's no mean feat at my age. In addition, it's an intuitive creature, it seems to sense my limitations and support my striving for IT competence.
It's also turned me into a photographic nerd. Thanks to iPhoto I can now actually organise my digital images, manipulate them with ease and present them beautifully in book, slideshow or calendar form. It's all so easy and the end result is brilliant. A weekend with Adobe Elements a year ago nearly ended my photographic career!
So how can something as superficial as an Apple Mac be so stimulating? It's only stuff and as we are constantly told by the great and the good, stuff doesn't satisfy man's deepest needs. Well I'm sure they are correct, but feeling good, enjoying the moment, living the dream, you can't beat it. What's wrong with fun?
Perhaps these should not the thoughts of a sober college Principal at the beginning of September. "Fun boy, what's that! Noses to the grindstone, that's what delivers the results". But I can't help but think that fun is what makes you get up in the morning and keeps you going all day. Perhaps I've still got one foot in the summer holidays or I'm experiencing a mid life crisis but I'm determined to have fun this year and my Apple Mac will keep me going.