Hope springs eternal

Over the last two days I have been

googling, searching, comparing and finally

 purchasing new photo software to transfer

all my pics from iPhoto.

All 20,000+

It was very painful.

Very.

I thought once the decision was made

the transfer would be swift.

Not.

There was a lot of waiting and waiting

and hours and hours required to transfer photos

to my new shiny silver 1T external drive
and then a backup
and a cleanup

So with nothing to do but wait and watch the

eternal transfer and backups take place,

I took hundreds of photos from my office window

some like this

and others like this

I was very bored. 

And restless.

And ate bad food

and drank too much soda

and cursed and damned

and then went for a walk

and felt better.

And as the transfer progressed

into the evening

my daughter stopped in to say hi 

and cuddle up with

kitty kitty who was keeping me company

kitty kitty is not one for a lot of smooching

but he does kind of like her a lot

So do I

My saga continued into the next day

so I continued to shoot photos

like these
I won't subject you to my bad photography skills
but I especially liked
these two guys

in their bird feeder standoff

with the little Finch determined

 to feed
seed by seed

while ignoring the Cardinal's
indignant pose
of sharing space

Sort of how I feel

transferring photos

one peck at a time

while my bloated Mac

waits until she no longer

has to share space with 20,000+ photos

And my reward for all of this

is speed and agility

from my aging Mac

Hope springs eternal!

~

missing the mom gene