Technology MELTDOWN

I have this love hate relationship with technology. When it works I love it and wonder how I got along without it in the past. And when the crap malfunctions, betrays me, I hate it and wish it would go away to end my frustration and aggravation.

I had taken quite a few pictures over the weeks. The 1st error was not deleting from the camera the pictures I had already downloaded to my computer. The 2nd error was not me regularly downloading the pics onto my computer. The 3rd error was dealing with stuff that simply didn't want to work properly when I tried to use it. You see I have a laptop and to facilitate its use, I connect a mouse to it instead of using the touch pad. Well today, both were giving me equal amounts of grief. Let's not forget the fact the after I connected the camera to the computer and downloaded the 1st set of pictures to a particular folder I had a hard time finding the program I initially used. To make a long story short, in my frustration I re-downloaded pictures I had already downloaded and pics that were supposed to be WEREN'T. And of course instead of checking to make sure that ALL pics were downloaded I didn't and deleted them from the camera and discovered minutes later that THEY WEREN'T ALL DOWNLOADED onto the computer. ARRRRGGGGGHHHHHHHH!

These are the pics I lost: Second grade PTA pics, and the kids were SSSOOOOO cute with their little paper flower costumes on. Those pics are lost...FOREVER! linen yarn and place mats I had knitted. No big deal there. I can retake those. Pics from church as we build out our building. Lost FOREVER! Pics of the 1st Elementary Music Multicultural Festival. LOST FOREVER! MELTDOWN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm kicking myself and want to throw the computer and the camera out the window and curse them both straight to HELL! There! I'm done. Rant OVER!

New Creations!

I decided this year for Christmas (yes I'm already thinking 9 months ahead) that the relations are getting household stuff this year. I just completed number 1 in a set of 4 place mats for Mom. Done in Euroflax linen sport weight yarn, it turned out pretty nice. Now all I have to do is weave in the ends and knit the other 3. I decided to go with a lace pattern with a leaf motif since Mom's curtains have a leaf motif. The colors I selected should go well with the dining room set which is a very dark brown. (I think they call it coffee or someting releated to coffee) I'm using Willow (a pretty green color) and Ginger. It'll add some color to the dining room.

Next home project will be felted coasters!