Everybody who loves me knows by now that I have an issue with backing things up or for that matter computer savviness. Seriously, I should consider dating someone who is a computer whizz just so I can transfer these responsibilities over.
About two weeks ago, I dropped my iPhone on the ground and the screen severely cracked. After having a ghetto fabulous phone for about a week and concerned that its life was coming to an end, I decided to find out about repairs or exchanges. Unfortunately, Orange (my Verizon here in France) has not discovered the promotional phone upgrade for renewing a contract. However, Apple is amazing no matter what country you are in and they fix everything or give you a new one for a really good price :o)
It took me a week to get an appointment with one of the genius guys at Apple and today was the day. Now, I have learned from my past experiences that backups are important - I'm not that flighty. I actually made an effort to try to backup my iPhone but my new computer wasn't recognizing the phone. Oh well, they're just fixing a screen it probably won't make a difference ... right? Real quickly, I realized that was a negative! First question asked - Avez-vous fait une sauvegarde (Have you done a backup)? That's when I knew I was screwed. On the bright side, I have a new phone ;o)
Devastated after my computer died this year and I lost all my photos, I can actually only laugh at myself now. Completely my fault! Though, in my defense, I did try. The most valuable thing I lost, I would say, were the videos/recordings I took of my friend Ben, a jazz violinist playing his manouche jazz. Ben lives in Boston but spent last winter here in Paris. [To all my Boston folks and anyone interested in manouche jazz you should check out his website ben@ben-powell.com, he is super talented!]
I mention music and Ben, because last year I thought it would be great to have a post about the music you hear throughout the streets of Paris. It truly is one of the things I love about this City. So with my handy dandy iPhone I started taking photos and videos of music I would stumble upon. That post barely had an existence. I only ever uploaded one photo to a draft blog and then kind of forgot about it but continued to record. Since all of that evidence was deleted this afternoon ... I decided maybe I should post the music videos/photos as they happen.
So here is the photo I uploaded a year ago, a man with his cat and music box, on the streets of Paris. If my memory serves me right, I believe this photo was taken near Gare St. Lazare and Printemps.
You never know where but you can guarantee that at least once a day you will hear music from one corner or another, whether it's in the metro station, on the metro, or thru the many streets of Paris, and if you're lucky you may even have more than one encounter in a day. Going forward, I vow to make a better effort to post my musical encounters.
