Chchchchanges

I don't like them.   Real quick here since I am a bit challenged.   Mr. W. decided I needed a new laptop and since he is the IT person here I just go along with him.   If he says it is time, then I guess it it.  Well my new baby is a MacBookAir and it is a little different to get used to.  See, like a car where all I need to know is put the key in, put gas in and put Robin in, I don't need to know about tera bytes, giga bytes, client based, web based, Clouds and other stuff.   I just want my 'stuff' where I can find it and work with it.

But let me digress - Mr. W. who doesn't leave the house or yard except for work wanted to go to the mall to the Apple Store rather than order it from Amazon which is how he purchases EVERYTHING! Trust me there was no happier man in all of the mid-Atlantic states when he realized he could order his socks and underwear through Amazon.  The trip was worth it because I believe I saw Papa Smurf disguised as one of the salesmen and then there was the guy in the camouflage kilt.   I believe he was of the Macintosh Clan - get it - Macintosh/Apple store.  Oh, I crack myself up!  I wish I was savy enough to take a picture with my cell phone without actually standing and holding it like a camera and being oh so obvious.

I did manage to download a pix from the Internet and then find it in the strange array of what is now my files.    As for all my other photos......I know they are in there somewhere but they are no longer nice and neat in dated folders by category.   Maybe  I was a little OCD with how I stored them but it made sense if you were looking for Christmas 2005.......

Things are different like there is no right click of the mouse or touch pad.   It is control and touch the pad.  You can 'swipe' the screen and change pages and I almost lost this post that way.  So the learning curve is there and I have all my files but they don't seem to be in the same folder hierarchy as I had them before the migration.  So I am struggling a bit.   The screen is much smaller than my old laptop and I am hoping I can adjust to it.   I have two weeks to try it and if not satisfied, I can exchange it.   Wow.    Another Cool thing is they offer training classes and the first free Saturday, I am there!

Tomorrow - I hope to be able to manage a post on O' Tannebaum!  My first finish of 2013.   So excited and so pleased with it.    Until then I will be hunting and pecking about this new device to get acquainted.

Aren't husbands just the funniest?

I have been working feverishly the last few nights on a grant to be submitted to the Cultural and Heritage Commission to benefit the arts board for my community.   Of course, down to the wire ----but that is a whole other issue/we really submitted early and were 'critiqued' and some suggestions were made to improve so it ended up being the last 5% of the ap was last minute.  Just feeling the need to explain so that every aspect of my life does not seem like a fire drill---- but anyway......

Wednesday I made changes into the wee hours of the morning with every intention to print Thursday morning and drop at my director's house on my way to work.   Well of course when you are mission critical, something goes wrong.   The printer won't work.   I did the uninstall/reinstall, etc, etc.  to no avail.   After work, I try again and fail again and tell Mr. (not-so) Wonderful and his reaction is....:
"What did you do to it?"  
"umm, try to use it???"   
He does his manipulations and computer gyrations and disconnects and replugs everything (same as I had done at 5:45 a.m.) but for him, all is good and I am printing......half way through, it stops and shuts off.   I say to  Mr. (n.s.) Wonderful and again

"What did you do to it?"  

"Nothing.  It just stopped"   
There is grumbling.  So we repeat this exercise a whole nother couple of cycles with comments like ...."You're killing me here!"  I was afterall now interrupting Jeopardy.   What ailed me? 

 "What exactly are you trying to do?  What is this file of you are messing with and trying to print?"  

and I am on the verge of saying but resisted "I must have screwed it up when I drop kicked it"  

Each time he gets it started and it stops and turns itself off after several pages... ....not to go on and on, but this morning the damned thing just kind of imploded, no lights, no reaction, just a sad silent death.   I came home and Mr. Wonderful had been to Best Buy for a  new printer!  Now of course, the eulogy went something like....."the other one was old, we just wore the poor little thing out,  we've got a lot of use out of it, printed many a tax returns.....yadda yadda yadda"  I am afraid he may want to bury the hunk a junk and place a tombstone with the name Old Yeller on it!  Now it is OK that I drop kicked (sic) the other one because he got to spend money on a new toy.  Men, gotta love them.

Comment Moderation

I am so hopelessly computer illiterate!  I turned on the little "Comment Moderation" thingie that means I have to approve comments before they are posted which is a good thing.   Problem is I didn't know I did it or how or when.    See, that is the computer illiterate part......the part that appartently goes on these happy clicking binges and doesn't know what she has turned off or on.   Anyway, I am glad I did it and had wondered how to do it when I got the message on ther posted......comments will be reviewed by the moderator before posting......