Leopard, La Prof & Massage Time

It is the small things that make me happy. I discovered last night that this new operating system {Leopard} will let me right-click on pictures and use them as as my desktop picture. Of course, one can do this with most versions of Windows but with the previous version of the Mac operating system {Tiger} there was the ability to do this but it was a work-around, not the simple right-click. The other thing I have just discovered and that  I like about Leopard is that there is an icon in the dock to which documents are automatically saved. I got an email with an attachment from la professoressa Nicole {my first Italian instructor} this morning and after I had opened and  saved the attachment, I noticed that this icon had "doc" on it. I clicked, and there was the attachment document, — neatly saved on the desktop.

Ok, why la prof was writing to me. You know I have a Kindle, right?  Well, Amazon has a Kindle forum and as part of it, has a thread called See a Kindle in Your City. People who want to can write and offer to show their Kindle to anyone local who wants to see it. So, I wrote a brief entry called "See a Kindle in Burlington, VT."   Now Nicole lives in NC but she lived in Burlington, VT, for many years and so she opened this thread, found she knew the writer and and wrote a brief entry in the forum. I am tracking my entry and so Amazon sends me email when someone comments. Thus I got in touch with Nicole again. She is coming back to Burlington in August to teach a week’s immersion course in Italian, and, although I am pretty sure I won’t take it {It costs almost $200  and I would rather spend that in Kindle books}, I will meet her for coffee and a catch-up chat.

 Today I go to have a scheduled massage with Beth who has been forced to move her office yet again. She had a rather nice room in a condo {not hers} in South Burlington but the owner is selling the condo so Beth has to move. This time she is back sharing with another masseuse in Burlington as she did before but I don’t think she gets on too well with this woman because she moved from there abruptly before she moved to the condo. I am now only having one massage a month so maybe she will have found something permanant before next month.

I got much of yesterday’s list done but I have as yet not tackled the mess on the floor and on the desk in this room. Maybe after the massage? One can always hope!

QUOTATIONS:

"Step by step. I can’t think of any other way of accomplishing anything."

Michael Jordan

"Fear not for the future, weep not for the past."

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) English poet