The enormous sucking sound you hear is …
I have spent countless hours in electronic triage and yesterday was no joyful ride again. 12 hours of trying to recover data from Notepad after upgrading to Lion, of trying to get the iCloud, iPhone, Apple Address Book, Google to sync contacts and rid myself once and for all of Outlook, and trying to change my Apple Id resulted in twelve long hours of misery.
The end result is that I was able to get my contacts and upload them to Google and then sync with the Address Book. But this morning, as per usual, my iPhone had lost some of those contacts.
I was able to pull the Notepad application off my computer and put it on a loaner one that doesn’t have Lion installed but we cannot grab the data file that keeps disappearing like a phantom.
I was not able to change my Apple Id which is my ancient AOL address, because it won’t merge with my current address and so therefore, sucking sucking sucking.
The truth is that technology is changing so rapidly nothing communicates with nothing and we are all spending more time trying to put bandaids on rather than being set free.
Today our house guests moved out after one month here – one month went by in the blink of an eye. 12 hours fixing my computer went by like 12 long years in solitary confinement.
Sigh.