Thanks Steve...

In my undergraduate work at The University of Nevada in Reno, I majored in Journalism (surprised?). One of THE BEST things about majoring in journalism in the early '80s, is that journalism students at UNR had access to a newfangled device called a word processor. We saved our work on these enormous 8" floppy disks.

I found this picture on the Interwebs and decided to use it because 1. It shows how FRIGGEN ENORMOUS the orignal disks were and 2. because I probably had a similar hairstyle in the mid '80s...LOVE the mullet!

No longer did I have to retype a whole paper because of a typo I discovered I'd made in the middle of the page. I thought it was the best thing ever (the word processor, not the hairstyle).

Somewhere around 1991, I bought my first Apple product. It was an Apple IIe. I was working on getting my teaching credential at the time and having used a word processor in the past, I couldn't imagine typing all those papers. I'd never heard of an Apple product. All I know is that the high school where I was student teaching had these computers available for students, and I wanted the computer that was going to be used in education.

The world is made up of two kinds of people...Apple people and PC people. I became an Apple person.

Over the years, I eventually owned other Apple desktop computers (the original 68K Mac, a Macintosh Performa (from the Sculley era...the worst Apple product I ever owned), The first blue iMac, a blue and white Power Mac G3, and and iMac G4. Along the way, I've owned three or four Apple laptops (how crazy is that...I lost count). I may have gone through two of those Black Powerbooks (they weighed a TON!), and a Powerbook G4, I'm on my second Macbook Pro right now, and am lusting for a Macbook Air. I work on an Intel Duo Cor iMac at work (I'm typing on it now), and our primary home computer is a beautiful 27" Intel iMac.

Don't even get me started on the number of iPods I've owned. It's embarrassing.

I've dropped an iPhone in the toilet (twice). In fact, you might say that the iPhone started this blog.

I sometimes blog from my iPad. I cannot run without my Shuffle. I regularly upload running information using my iPhone.

I regularly watch TV on my Apple TV. We have a wireless network in my house thanks to two Airports. 

I'm an Apple junkie...I admit it. I've pulled my whole family (as well as several friends) into the cult of Mac as well. Walter just dumped his Blackberry in favor of (I'm not lying) my old first generation iPhone. It's seriously a better product. We'll be among the first to order the new iPhone 4S even though I'm disappointed it isn't an iPhone 5.

To say that Steve Jobs has had an impact on my life...well that's an understatement.

So rest in peace Steve....and thanks so much for all the toys.