Head Space Daily Words...

This morning, I found myself sitting in the Genius Bar at the Apple Store on Regent Street - a doctor's waiting room for poorly computers. Yesterday, the call had arrived for me to work from Wednesday until the end of next week. Great news. I had also arranged a meeting with a potential client for today to discuss how we could work together. All good. Then, disaster struck. Last night, I dropped my laptop, resulting in a shattered screen and a barely breathing MacBook. I was distraught, as I rely on my computer to work from home. This morning, as soon as I had dropped my kids at school, I sped over to the Apple Store on a mercy dash and was directed to the Genius Bar, where I was given an appointment to discuss my computer's symptoms. The techno doctor is known as a Genius and he was an understanding listener who lent a sympathetic ear as I described how the screen had turned green, although I had managed to initiate a backup and how, when I checked on the patient this morning, there was only the occasionally flickering pulse of light registering. Could my computer be saved? A mobile monitor was rushed in, wires attached and some form of electro CPR administered. The drive was in tact. Hallelujah. The screen was buggered. I went to my meeting, whilst my MacBook went into surgery. Several hours later, I returned, met by a Latvian Genius nurse to collect the patient. The Genius doctors and nurses are incredibly chatty and charming, making the whole experience feel as if you have stepped into some otherworldly experience, where only calmness, knowledge and good manners prevail. Not a bad way to be...