Tommy Collison

Except that I was never the world’s number 1 fan of U2. Sure, they’re okay, but best band ever? Nah mate.

The song brings me back a few years to when we lived in Tipperary. During one summer, John got his first Apple desktop machine and I started with a new physio. Hardly a fair pairing but whatever :) This particular physio had an expansive music collection, and for the time that I saw her for the summer months once a day, I’d borrow a CD, copy it to iTunes on the iMac, which John had agreed to let me use. I build up a hefty music collection including most of U2′s stuff.

As I got older, I began realizing that I never listed to half of the music I’d copied over and started deleting this. This also coincided with me finding out my own music tastes and realizing that The Beegees weren’t a part of that. Sorry guys.

That was 5 years ago, and I’ve since been promoted to my own laptop. The iMac is still with us, albeit in a bad form. Someone thought deleting system files was the way forward, so not much works on it. I tried installing Snow Leopard on it but that didn’t work so I have to find a copy of Leopard.

Until that time, a time where any of us have use for it, and are willing to buy a new mouse for it, it resides in the Retirement Home that is the Study, cruelly-yet-humorously named Grandpa Simpson.