The past couple of days have been filled with a whirlwind of activity. The General and I leave in the morning for South Dakota. In addition to getting ready for a conference and board meeting that takes place next week, yesterday found me dealing with computer issues.
I know what you're thinking, and you are partially correct. OPERATOR ERROR accounted for part of the difficulty. I generally do my monthly written director's report using pages. It is a great app and one can insert pictures and wraparound written content with ease.
My experience has been that you can also easily loose everything you've written with one stroke on the keyboard. Fortunately, my daughter has graciously come to my rescue a multiple of different times. She is very proficient with pages and she's never judgmental when I'm backed in a corner and I dial her number instead of 911.
The easy fix for some of the problems I encounter is to simply turn the computer off and then turn it on again. That trick doesn't work with pages! It didn't work for lots of things yesterday.
Yesterday, I couldn't locate the minutes from my most recent board meeting. Of course, I've had two computers with hard drive issues (aka – crashed) in the past three months. You live and you learn – right? Maybe is my best answer to the question.
This week also found me recreating a financial spread sheet for 2023 deposits and expenditures. Fortunately, I have access to bank statements that reflect deposits and expenditures. My use of excel is about as proficient as my using pages. When it works, it works. When it doesn't, I have to remind myself not to forget to breathe.
Yesterday, my older laptop proved to be a challenge that also pushed me to the brink of despair. I opened a word document and three seconds later, the document I need disappeared and in it's place was another word document. It was like a kaleidoscope of pictures that appear briefly and are then replaced by another document.
Okay, so I didn't immediately panic. I turned the computer off and then turned it on again. The kaleidoscope of word documents greeted me and I was powerless to alter what seemed like a runaway mine train.
I was in the midst of a very terrible, very bad, no good day! Thus the quest for feeling confident that I had everything I needed for the conference and the board meeting did not surface in the framework of my thought processes.
Today, I am calmer and more confident. By the way, I solved the kaleidoscope of document issue by closing every document that opened. Eventually, the kaleidoscope stopped and I was greatly relieved. Consequently, I don't want to go back to using a Big Chief Tablet and #2 Pencil.
The General and I are checked in for our flight. Let the South Dakota experience begin!
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