Technological Troubles

This is great! Finally! After months (years really) Apple finally released its new operating system Leopard. I pre-ordered it and was anxiously sitting at the door on October 26th, the day it was to arrive.I received my shipment from FedEx (after what seemed like hours of waiting) and I hurried to my computer to get my “download on.” Little did I know what stress laid ahead of me. The directions seemed simple enough, just insert the disc, push a few buttons and you’re ready to enjoy!Attempt number one, “Download failed.” Oh no, I thought. This can’t be happening to me right now. I just paid $200 for a disc that doesn’t work. I starting thinking, what if i got a bad disc? Has Apple released the disc too soon without fixing some of the bugs? How long am I going to have to wait?Okay, time for the second attempt. Disc in, disc initiation started. 5, 10, 15 minutes went by. Is it going to work? Nope, second attempt failed. By now I’m really freaking out. My pulse must be 160 bpm and rising and my blood pressure is certainly on the rise. I took the disc out and then slid it back into the slot for attempt number 3. This will be the time, I thought. It was, but not without a huge headache. When I inserted the disc the third time, I was not given the option to install, only to completely erase and reformat my hard drive.No way, I thought, this cannot be happening to me right now. After coming to the realization that I had no other choice, I backed up my most important stuff and erased my hard drive. The erase was both terrifying and relieving. On one hand, I was scared that I’d forgotten to back something important up, but on the other hand, I had 100 GB of space left to work with. All of the clutter that I’d accumulated over the years was finally gone with no chance of reprieve. When the reformat was finally finished, I tried once again to install and, I guess third time really is a charm, because it finally worked for me.I was so excited to try out the new O.S. that I quickly forgot all about the trouble that I went through to install it, that is until I realized that when I reformatted my hard drive I erased all of the programs that I had on the disk…but that will have to be the story for another day.