Thoughts on tools for Easter Weekend -

"Choose your tools wisely- but be more focused on the craft, than the tool."

Yesterday, my computer, dearly beloved and three years old last month, 'bombed'. 'Crashing' would be a understatement. I am unsure of the correct diagnosis, but programs refused to load, or opened and closed independently. Editing software, media player, the Internet, the anti virus software were all unreachable, but flickered past, stuck in a tech loop of laptop misery... until the poor thing, utterly exhausted, just stopped answering to the start up command and froze with a screen scream akin the the emoticon :-O

Never mind i thought, either it will be fixed, or ... it won't. Rather lase fair, compared to how i usually take this kind of setback- please bare in mind I work on this computer everyday, and I had two shows scheduled for this weekend- a show about the Reconomy Local Entrepreneur Forum that happened on Thursday, and a show from the KEVICC student's Come Alive! Concert from Wednesday evening.

I wondered at this relaxedness towards not meeting radio commitments and the health of my main tool whilst my dear brother Rowan 'PC Wizard' unscrewed components and linked machines together (like a jump-start for PC's?). A whole long afternoon dedicated to PC TLC. I trusted Rowan's skills - tho I'd never asked him to prove them before- but i think something else was effecting my reaction. The forum and the concert were both amazing events- full of talent and community connections. Radio shows would have only been cherries on the top of really amazing and delicious community event cakes. In the PC it-will-get-fixed-or-it-won't balance, I kinda got that everything was really OK (contextually-I'm still worried about the gulf stream and the bees)  - and saw it would have advanced nothing to pout and stamp.

Maybe that means I'm growing up some finally? I'm usually a great pouting stamper if something isn't working.

I have the files, and when my 'puter is wholesome and up to it I can make 2 shows for broadcast, hope fully for the enjoyment of listeners, and for the use of the event creators. In the meantime, whilst I gently massage my PC, trying to bring circulation back into its programs, I'm just enjoying the warmth the concert and forum bought to me, as an audience member and an attendee.

Have a lovely Easter weekend

:-)