Crashing, recovering...

Since I've been back from the MO/NC trip my computer, yes the Apple, has been having some sort of hardware failure...internal disk drive is my best educated guess. I haven't been too panicky, I have been using the Time Machine backup feature and was able to make another good backup (knock on wood) today. One interesting Mac feature is being able to install the OS on an external drive and restore the time machine backup, then run it from the external drive. In progress now. Only 125.6 gig to restore. It can chug all night.
Needless to say that little "Happy Mac" icon can just shut up.

 

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