I had a tech nightmare Tuesday afternoon. I came close to panicking, fearing the loss of so much of my work or my inability to work for days. I rushed to Albany to the Apple Store, which sent me home without fixing my problem. It wasn’t an Apple problem; it was a software problem, and all is well. I’m back online and calming down.
I was frightened out of proportion to what was happening. It’s been an intense, complete, and pretty incredible few days. Among other things, I thought I had lost my wedding present from Maria, a silver money clip with a Mary Oliver poem inscribed.
I have carried it with me every day of my married life.
I don’t have words to describe how upset I was at losing this beautiful thing, a solid connection to Maria.
Maria went through the garbage this morning and found it. I was in a pharmacy bag.
This made it a pleasant day for all my tech grief. I’ve been on the Internet for over half a century, but it has only sporadically been easy.
My Dyslexia has had more trouble with technology than spelling by far.
But it ended well. I learned much and am happy to be sound, working, and grounded again.
I don’t know why it got to me as badly as it did; I’ll have to consider it. Tomorrow, I have my Zoom gathering with blog readers, which I love.
I will finally pick up my new sunglasses and head back to Saratoga for the dermatology session that was postponed due to the Eclipse. I look forward to seeing you in the morning. I’ve had it. I like these photos; I’m branching out. I have some new white roses that I love, and I am messing around with Succulent pictures, which I also love.
That’s enough: no names and spelling, just flowers. And no panic.
I love the purple
Windowsill gallery
Spider succulent
well, devices are our lifelines, nowadays….for so many reasons. Glad you hopefully got it all sorted out! Yippee! Smoother sailing tomorrow, I hope!
Susan M
I totally empathize. There’s nothing like a computer crash to send me into a panic. I’m glad everything turned out ok.
Hi, Jon,
I rely on Carbonite as a reliable backup for technological disasters and it’s given me peace of mind over the years. Protecting my 50 years of writing is worth the fee. I’m now writing a column (“In Good Faith”) regularly for the Greenwich Journal. No proselytizing, ever. It just offers a reminder on how important our spiritual self is to balance and inner peace. Thanks for your Blog and photography.
I bet the tech stuff rattled you because of losing the clip Maria gave you. Having to deal with the tech stuff in an emergent way, put the clip out of your mind and transferred it to the tech problems you were having.
Do you have a backup system for all your pictures? I had a computer that crashed and I lost all the images I had of my beloved horses and a couple of my much-loved dogs that I can never recover. I was devastated and it put me in a mood for weeks.
Thanks Jan, all of my work is backed up at least once a day on a special disk. My response wasn’t rational, there is no danger of having everything wiped out, I think it was the fear of being closed down for a while. so much to do..
I have two backup systems and we found the clip the next morning thanks