Yikes, I can already tell that it's going to be an exhausting day.  My boss is supposed to come in to the office and I didn't get much sleep last night.

I woke-up to the news that Jack Larson passed away.  If you don't know, he was Jimmy Olsen in the old black and white Superman television series (with George Reeves).  To be honest, apart from the Christopher Reeves movies and the old Bruce Timm animated series, that was the only Superman I really watched.  I remember my dad liked the show, so that meant I got to watch it with him every-so-often, if he was home (and in the mood to watch it) when it was on.  I just loved that show as a kid.  I wasn't a huge fan of how they portrayed Lois (she seemed so mean!), but it was such a neat show for a kid like me.  If you can believe it, I haven't seen any of the recent movies, the Lois and Clark TV show, or anything else.  I was going to watch that one with Brandon Routh, but when it came time to "press play", I just didn't feel like it.  I probably switched over and watched an episode of Mob Wives instead, LOL.  Rest in peace Jack Larson....

Like I said above, I didn't get much sleep last night.  In addition to the heat and humidity, I was dealing with iPad issues.  Like a dumbass, I went in to update it to iOS9 and it got stuck on the "swipe to update" screen.   Turns out, a lot of people have had that problem and the only way to fix it it (other than go to the Apple Store) is to either back-up the unit and restore it from that back-up (it somehow fixes the bug) or you have to put your iPad in recovery mode and restore it to the factory settings.  Now, when I was about to update the iOS, I turned off the the "find my iPad" feature and it gave me this scary-looking warning message, so I thought "shit, I better not turn it off" and turned it back on again.  Welllllllll, did you know that you can't back-up your iPad or restore it from a back-up if that feature is still on?  WELL YOU CAN'T!!!!  I went on to the iCloud to manually turn it off and it took about 5 tries before it worked.  I was still unable to to restore it from a back-up as my computer still showed that feature as being turned-on, but I was able to put it in "Recovery Mode" so that it could be restored to it's factory settings.  That took over 5 hours.  And it wasn't just "plug it in and leave it" for over 5 hours either.  It was "sit by it and keep putting it into recovery mode by pressing the power button and the home screen button simultaneously when the iPad disappears from the screen every 15 minutes (or so)" for over 5 hours.

When it was finally done wiping my iPad, I noticed that all of my previous back-ups were gone from my computer, so I had to use a back-up from my phone that I did 3 months ago (yeah, I'm bad about backing-up my phone).  That took a while, then I had to try and get things close to how they were before......I didn't do so well.  I was up (the first time) until about 2:30am fiddling with things, then I tried to go to sleep since I had to be up in four hours.  I couldn't sleep, so I started fiddling with it some more.  You know, trying to get the websites I always have open back into Safari, Trying to get the text messages that used to show on iPad to show again (I failed), etc.  I didn't accomplish much, apart from losing valuable sleep.

Why is it that I always have trouble with stuff like that?  Coupled with the fact that you cannot expand an iPad's storage capacity and you have me seriously thinking about whether I should even get an iPad when I upgrade.  My unit is about 3 years-old and I'm always getting close to the limit on storage since I didn't think I'd need more than the 13GB offerred.  It may be time to break away from Apple.  I dunno.

So today I'm tired and a little sad.