Another musing on the number three.
Three dresses I tried on today - 2 Diane von Furstenberg and 1 Jaeger
Last 3 films I saw at the cinema - The Quartet, Skyfall, Lawless
Last 3 DVDs I watched - The Killing series one, In the Loop, Drive
3 things I ate today - muesli, bouillabaisse, smoked salmon
3 fruits I ate today - apple, nectarine, blueberries
3 drinks today - decaff tea, hot chocolate, diet coke
Last 3 things I knitted - 3 little owls
3 items in progress in my knitting bag - lace cardigan, Noro waistcoat, Noro baby cardigan
3 more items in progress in my knitting bag - shades of tan log cabin blanket, pale blues and greens log cabin blanket, cotton log cabin basket
3 items on charge in this room - iphone, ipad, this laptop (which is no longer charging)
3 people I need to contact to meet up with soon - my cousins Ian, Julie and Karen
3 things I plan to do next week - go to Zumba class, Jive class, Ceroc class
3 favourite pets when I was growing up - Inkie, Tess and Silver
Saturday 23 February 2013
Monday 11 February 2013
I figured out a solution - sort of
Many searches for how to deal with ther error messages I kept receiving whilst trying to upload photographs of the Snowdogs revealled that I am not the only one having the problem. Many posts of forums outlining the problem but not many solutions. One suggestion was to upload as html so that is what I tried and it seems to have worked.
So much time has been wasted over the past couple of days in trying to understand technology and other things have been let slide. Last weekend I bought yet more storage for the ever growing stash - moments of weakness in the Sales, and I would like to spend some time organising myself and all my craft work. It is tempting to take over a whole room and we do have enough space. I can picture boxes of wool and patterns and needles and accessories, boxes of sewing paraphenalia, materials, embroidery silks and books of patterns, card making materials, scrapbooks and all the boxes of things waiting to be put into scrapbooks, photographs, family history research, books of Birth, Marriage and Death certificates, books about the towns and villages where relatives came from, memories from boxes from my parents, grandparents, great grandparents. Yes - I think I can fill a room - oh yes - then the 2 sewing machines and the bags and boxes of works in progress in knitting and sewing and cross stitch and scrapbooks.......
I can move a bookshelf onto an empty wall for neat storage.
There are almost enough boxes for most of the items.
There is just s slight problem with the chest full of materials - some lovely old Laura Ashley quilted material I discovered in there the other day and I don't know why my Mother had about 12 metres of white satin but I couldn't get rid of it.
Another problem is the chest of drawers full of my "stuff" too and perhaps it would be better to have a table with at least one computer and printer/scanner - so perhaps 2 rooms are needed - rather more difficult to justify but the idea of having some pleasant space with the lovely view ( I know which room I prefer) is appealling. Snow is forecast again this evening and tomorrow so maybe this is a project for a day or two indoors - progress to follow.
So much time has been wasted over the past couple of days in trying to understand technology and other things have been let slide. Last weekend I bought yet more storage for the ever growing stash - moments of weakness in the Sales, and I would like to spend some time organising myself and all my craft work. It is tempting to take over a whole room and we do have enough space. I can picture boxes of wool and patterns and needles and accessories, boxes of sewing paraphenalia, materials, embroidery silks and books of patterns, card making materials, scrapbooks and all the boxes of things waiting to be put into scrapbooks, photographs, family history research, books of Birth, Marriage and Death certificates, books about the towns and villages where relatives came from, memories from boxes from my parents, grandparents, great grandparents. Yes - I think I can fill a room - oh yes - then the 2 sewing machines and the bags and boxes of works in progress in knitting and sewing and cross stitch and scrapbooks.......
I can move a bookshelf onto an empty wall for neat storage.
There are almost enough boxes for most of the items.
There is just s slight problem with the chest full of materials - some lovely old Laura Ashley quilted material I discovered in there the other day and I don't know why my Mother had about 12 metres of white satin but I couldn't get rid of it.
Another problem is the chest of drawers full of my "stuff" too and perhaps it would be better to have a table with at least one computer and printer/scanner - so perhaps 2 rooms are needed - rather more difficult to justify but the idea of having some pleasant space with the lovely view ( I know which room I prefer) is appealling. Snow is forecast again this evening and tomorrow so maybe this is a project for a day or two indoors - progress to follow.
Sunday 10 February 2013
Photographs of the Snowdogs
Well that's the point. I have been trying to upload photgraphs of the snowdogs for days now without success. To begin with I tried on the ipad but that seems an impossibility so I transferred the photos from the ipad to the laptop and tried again - again no joy. This time I get an error message saying invalid response from the server. Yet again I am bamboozled by technology.
Yesterday I found myself close to tears. My son, quite reasonably, asked me to scan two documents and then send them together with 2 further already scanned documents to him by e mail. Not a problem, I thought, as I sat at the computer.
Problem one - a software upgrade meant that I could not, simply, scan in the 2 documents. Never mind, there was another scanner - wirelessly attached ( if you can say that) to the laptop. I could scan on that one. Why not scan in on the second scanner direct to the first computer? For some reason the first computer cannot see the second scanner - with me so far? It gets worse. I scanned in the documents but they didn't appear on the laptop. Yes, they appeared on the main computer - the one which cannot see the scanner yet the scanner can see it. No problem, first job done. Now to find the 2 older documents. I remembered the date of scanning. Stupidly I had not renamed them so I needed scans 3 and 4. Scans 5 onwards appeared in My documents but not 3 and 4. I had no idea why. I knew I still had the original of one of the documents so I found it and scanned it in again - on the wireless scanner and e mailed that one off. An error appeared with the e mail. I still could not find the other document. I did an advanced search and there they were - how I have no idea. I renamed them. They reappeared, were attached and sent off. It was then that I decided to try the snowdogs again. I am doing nothing any different to the times I have attached other photographs to the blog. I despair of technology - the thing that I love and which adds so much to my life - yet it frustrates.
Yesterday I found myself close to tears. My son, quite reasonably, asked me to scan two documents and then send them together with 2 further already scanned documents to him by e mail. Not a problem, I thought, as I sat at the computer.
Problem one - a software upgrade meant that I could not, simply, scan in the 2 documents. Never mind, there was another scanner - wirelessly attached ( if you can say that) to the laptop. I could scan on that one. Why not scan in on the second scanner direct to the first computer? For some reason the first computer cannot see the second scanner - with me so far? It gets worse. I scanned in the documents but they didn't appear on the laptop. Yes, they appeared on the main computer - the one which cannot see the scanner yet the scanner can see it. No problem, first job done. Now to find the 2 older documents. I remembered the date of scanning. Stupidly I had not renamed them so I needed scans 3 and 4. Scans 5 onwards appeared in My documents but not 3 and 4. I had no idea why. I knew I still had the original of one of the documents so I found it and scanned it in again - on the wireless scanner and e mailed that one off. An error appeared with the e mail. I still could not find the other document. I did an advanced search and there they were - how I have no idea. I renamed them. They reappeared, were attached and sent off. It was then that I decided to try the snowdogs again. I am doing nothing any different to the times I have attached other photographs to the blog. I despair of technology - the thing that I love and which adds so much to my life - yet it frustrates.
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