My wonderful life with technology goes on. Yesterday after getting notices that APPLE was suggesting everyone do updates for their I Phones, I did. About thirty minutes later I was completely shut out of my phone and it quit working. After Tina and I were on her phone and computer for a couple of hours, we were informed that everyone is going through the same problems. About four hours later, we were able to get my phone back up.
And EVERY SINGLE SONG I HAVE WRITTEN IN THE LAST YEAR AND A HALF AND RECORDED ON MY PHONE IS GONE.
Some (hopefully) will have been backed up on my computer. Many,that I wrote over the past couple months, will not. Some will be copied by co-writers. Some people of course, never do what I ask and record them themselves. I have all the lyrics because I do keep paper copies of those in big books. I will NEVER STOP DOING THAT FOR THIS VERY REASON. looking at the lyrics I might be able to reconstruct most of those.
Many are gone forever.
The point is that I absolutely HATE the fact that we are controlled by technology. We are lost because we can be wiped out in an instant. Our banking, our history, our lives can be ended by technology. If an identity thief doesn't get you, your own government will.
It is all bad, but my absolute hatred of anything APPLE now goes on even more. For those of you who love those Mac,s, it will happen to you too.
Who cares? I'll write more songs. But it just goes to show you that nothing much lasts at all anymore. Really leads you to wonder what the point of any of this is.
MAB