From Nothing . . . to . . . THIS!

I did the upgrade-train form measly Leopard, thru Snow Leopard; which I didnt even open, to Mountain Lion. So I went from "yeah, I know what Im doing - got all the tricks down and life is beautiful" to the error messages; "Uh oh - you dont have the ultimate versions of This and That, so youd better get on the ball toute suite, mister and take this Mountain Lion from my hand . . ." (cricket, or beetle - whatever the upstart was called). Afternoon turned into night and night followed the Star and Binky led me to the other side as daylight approached. (The next morning . . .): I could tell some of these things were not like the others, and didnt want to waste any time "just foolin around", so bought the tutorial. Guy (Dan) has a nice voice, the ideas were well put forth and all, but what I found lacking was where hed say (paraphrasing here) - " . . . and were walking, and here are some of the available thingies which Ill only mention but wont tell you how they work, as my main focus is "over here . . ." At least a few times (but not many), Dan threw out the carrot, said: "LOOK! A baby Wolf!" and substituted an avocado in its stead. One such instance was in Reminders. His list showed about a half dozen items on the left (mine only had two), and groceries was on his list. He didnt tell me how to put groceries on mine! Perhaps I was asking too much from a quick tutorial, I dunno. On the whole the presentation was informative and I had to take notes even! Im glad I bought it. (I still dont understand the "flipping thru one screen after another - when I try this - I dont have a pad. [trackpad?] - just a mouse. If I "run thru" some pages, and one had involved a purchase - I get the " youve made a double purchase" message . . hmmmmm (durn the luck anyway). Dans a great guy, seemingly and I wish him and Beth all the best. Thanks for the tuna fish sandwich, Dan!

LeechyNUT about Tutor for OS X Mountain Lion