When Monday = Friday...and vice versa

Day 50:
As I went to add today’s post (I write most of my entries in Word before uploading them) I saw that I never posted Friday’s lesson….that was a lesson unto itself.

So here is today and Friday...

Day 49
Today a friend twice used a word that I had never heard of; the term is austerity. At first I thought she said posterity. Austerity, posterity – you hear the confusion, right?

Although they have similar sounds, they have quite contrary meanings. Posterity refers to a future reality, as in “I am committing my acts of today for the sake of posterity,” where as austerity refers to a very present condition, like adhering to a strict, often personal, economy. As in, "Times are so tight that I'm following a level of austerity," or something like that.

Today I learned a new term to expand my vocabulary, and I’m excited. It also forced me to ask a string of questions that I’ll pass on to you as well…

What new words have you learned lately?
In other words, are you expanding your vocabulary?
Or better yet, is your vocabulary expanding you?

Day 50 – for reals
Not too long ago I experienced the dread of losing data from a computer without having any backup files. Thankfully much of what I lost was either irrelevant or in a first draft version on a disk or thumb drive.

However, this was not the case for my digital music library from iTunes.

Despite a concerted effort, I was unable to relocate any remnants of the lost files on my computer. Therefore, I was left to read through the Help menus Apple puts out to assist those of us that confidently assert that when it comes to losing data, “It won’t happen to me.”
Well, it was during this somber research that I discovered that even if you have a digital receipt for lost music files (or video files for that matter), iTunes will not allow you to download those purchased songs/albums unless you pay for them, again.

Oh, this is unacceptable.

And then, a few clicks and many small print paragraphs later, I read that if the purchased items are on an iPod, then they CAN be transferred back onto the iTunes library….

Hooray!

Today I learned to ALWAYS back up data.
Today I learned that when trouble-shooting, reading through the fine-print can most certainly pay off.
Today I learned that I won’t really know if the second thing I learned today is true until tomorrow – when I connect my iPod up to my semi-defunct computer.