So we were flipping through the channels tonight and Michael Jackson's "This is It" was on. None of us had ever seen it before, so we started watching. What an amazing talent. I don't know what happened in his private life, and I'm afraid he's taken much of that to the grave with him, but you just cannot discount the fact that he is one of the most remarkable entertainers of our lifetime.
While talking to my kids, as they had a lot of questions about Michael, I asked if they had ever seen the Thriller video, and I couldn't believe my ears when they said they hadn't. Well, we had to fix that, and fast! So up came youtube, speakers all the way up, everyone crowded around. They were all enthralled, even Annie who can barely sit long enough to take a breath!
After the video, they had even more questions, now about the moonwalk, so back to youtube we went, and I found the first ever moon walk, which I believe he performed at Motown's 25th Anniversary. I remember watching that one live on TV with all of my family around.
More questions, more videos, and it was really an amazing experience to share with my children something and someone from my generation who's music made an impact on the world.
And I thoroughly enjoyed it all over again. It brought me back 27 years, to a much different time; a fun, carefree time, and I was able to enjoy it with my children. What an amazing night.
I have embedded the videos for you, because you know you want to watch them too, now!
ENJOY! We did!
July 1, 2010
June 27, 2010
Moving my iTunes library is taking forever!
Still loving my new purple puter, and setting just about everything up has gone quite smoothly. iTunes, though, has proven a bit daunting!
First, hubby needed the charger to the old laptop and took it to work, which was fine, but I had forgotten and then tried to start transferring the library. The old laptop died about a quarter of the way through the transfer. None of it stuck. Not a big problem, just figured I'd work on it in the morning.
So this morning I was able to plug in the old laptop with the charger and started transferring the music. it took a while, but it all transferred. Wait, where are all the apps? How in the world do I transfer all the apps? After about 30 minutes of researching, I found out that if you right click on the iphone icon in itunes while it's plugged it, it gives you the option to transfer all purchases. Well I wish I had known that last night!
Anyhoo, all the apps downloaded, but of course none of them are organized at all in my neat little folders I made. So after lots of dragging and dropping and reorganizing, I finally got it all organized again.
I must say, I was a little apprehensive to sync again, but this time everything went well!
Total time to switch everything over? 5.5 hours
First, hubby needed the charger to the old laptop and took it to work, which was fine, but I had forgotten and then tried to start transferring the library. The old laptop died about a quarter of the way through the transfer. None of it stuck. Not a big problem, just figured I'd work on it in the morning.
So this morning I was able to plug in the old laptop with the charger and started transferring the music. it took a while, but it all transferred. Wait, where are all the apps? How in the world do I transfer all the apps? After about 30 minutes of researching, I found out that if you right click on the iphone icon in itunes while it's plugged it, it gives you the option to transfer all purchases. Well I wish I had known that last night!
Anyhoo, all the apps downloaded, but of course none of them are organized at all in my neat little folders I made. So after lots of dragging and dropping and reorganizing, I finally got it all organized again.
I must say, I was a little apprehensive to sync again, but this time everything went well!
Total time to switch everything over? 5.5 hours
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