I futzed around on my PC this morning and failed to get it to work. The mouse works. The keyboard doesn’t. I started the week with the f drive not working. That’s the one that reads the SD card that my digital camera stores photos and videos to.
A trip to Scottsbluff resulted in news that the f drive was unrepairable because of advances in technology [writing that, he scoffed] that made that obsolete. Never mind, though, because there is a plug-in adapter that works! I managed to post Post 1048 with some of the photos, but not the cute ones of the turtle on the road and the kitties greeting me when I came home, all in videos form!
The other day, Dougy was upset because I yelled at him for knocking over the wastepaper basket. Today, it was my time to be upset.
Of course, one fix accompanies another problem: The Microsoft Movie Maker no longer works, I accidentally left the video option on my digital camera on so my Smith Lake trip ends with the road construction scene, and the alternative to screen print from the videos is thwarted because the new version of Microsoft Paint doesn’t seem to allow one to screen print and convert the image to a JPEG file one can treat as a photo.
I work at being a positive person. Computers, however, tap into the darkest regions of my soul.
Wow! Dougy’s mad face is a little intimidating.
It’s pretty rare, but, yeah!
A new computer is always learning again
That is a fact! Or when you update you OS!
Oh AMEN. My lively hood used to depend entirely on my computer (Bookkeeping & Taxes) and with every crash…I loose something. I gotta love/hate thing going with mine. In fact this one doesn’t even have a name! ~~dru~~
I got mine only after I retired because I thought it would be a good entertainment and a way to keep track of things. What I learned was it is a necessity, but it is like a boat: a money pit! I toy with the idea of going off line, then I wake up to the reality that I am hooked and dependent on the dang thing now. “Abandon all hope, ye who enter here”!
Sounds like you need a jack
At this point I need something. The fix the wizard at the store suggested worked
didn’t, but I managed to stumble on a solution for the laptop, if not the PC.
Jackhammer
Yes, that would done a most satisfactory job!
Sounds like a new computer is required….maybe a refurbished 2nd. hand one.
Jean
I hope not, though that could be the case. I can afford a new one, fortunately, though I would prefer not to spend that much more money after replacing my washer/dryer and my car in the last few weeks.
Yes, you seem to be on a buying jag. I am debating buying a new or shall I say different house or renovate this one. After looking through homes in this area online, I’m swaying toward renovating. The one problem with this house…that really bothers me is, this house gets very little sunshine and I love plants and flowing plants. I got a Peace Lily several years ago, it was flowering at the time. Well, it hasn’t flowered again since I bought it….just too shady in here. A sky light would help a lot…maybe two….no, that would look silly. One would be enough.
Jean and Shoks
I’d go for one I could renovate, too. I guess I watch too many Home and Garden programs on the subject of new houses vs. renovations….!
Computers can be very frustrating, yet they can also be so helpful- sort of like cats 🙂
Good point!
It sure sounds like you’re getting to the ball peen hammer stage of your computer ownership! Best of luck; as computer illiterate as I am – I’m no help!
LOL! A friend suggested a shotgun….!
Ahh…but then the computer doesn’t suffer – it’s over too quickly. 🙂
I fired my brother’s shotgun once several decades ago, and that is my entire experience with them….!
And it was quite an experience too – wasn’t it?!!
Nearly knocked me on my butt!
haha (oops, sorry shouldn’t have chuckled).
I have no aptitude for firing such things. I managed to barely pass marksmanship testing in basic training.
The only worse thing was grenade tossing. I couldn’t get the hang of it. Tossing it like a baseball, I could get some distance, but they insisted on an overhand toss that placed it barely in front of the bunker.
After one very close grenade (on the other side of the bunker, at least), the sergeant straightened himself up, told me he felt one toss was sufficient, so I got out of throwing that second grenade.
In all, getting out of tossing the second grenade was fine with me, too. I don’t like loud noises.
You are a character, Doug!!
What can I say? I worked on building character all my life., but i seem to have fallen on the other side and just became one instead!
I’ve come across a “Murphy’s Laws of Computing” before. This won’t fix your troubles, but might make you laugh…
http://www.murphys-laws.com/murphy/murphy-computer.html
Though it fed my despair and sense of cynicism, I confess to laughing my proverbial off! Thanks, Livonia!
My tech just called to say my new laptop was in. There are still things which won’t run on a Mac and I am sending lots of data to Apple on bugs in the El cap version of OSX so I was forced to get ±Win 10 on the new laptop. I always say I should get a big wad of stock options from Microsoft for all the Beta testing ±I’ve done as a consumer over the years. Sympathies and glad to see some pics anyway
Yes, I agree with the stock options!
If you need to get a new computer, perhaps you could get something like a Kindle Fire – a friend did that and said it was economical, yet did everything she wanted, which is mainly email and reading ebooks. There is a built-in camera, which would be handy, but I’m not sure I’d like a touch screen.
I don’t know if I’f like the touchscreen, either. I mean, if I were to go for a different technology, I might go for one that I talked into the computer and it wrote down what I said (with lots of spelling errors and hilarious misinterpretations of what it thought I said). I guess I’ll stick with keyboarded computers. I’m not a laptop fan because of the touch pad, though I’m getting better negotiating the tool.
I have an iPad, that is a touch screen, but I also have a cover that has a blue tooth keypad.
I also have issues with the size of keyboards. I have some numbness in my extremities, and that results in lots of typing errors on smaller keyboards.
What an annoying situation!
Doesn’t seem to be getting any more tolerable….!
That must be frustrating.
That it is!
Thanks for the info Jean. I might just think about this way.
Good luck and have a wonderful weekend!
Thanks, and you, too!