I’m a dinosaur I admit it. As of
today I have a brand new computer. A Samsung laptop, something or
other, with a terabyte of space. Cracks me up since my first
computer was an IBM with 2GB of space and we were totally up to
date and cruising. It didn’t actually feel like that long ago.
Now I want to take a class at Bead and Button that uses Photoshop CS6
and my poor little old Dell couldn’t handle it. It was old –
admittedly 5 years old and I was still using A 2003 office suite and
XP. I liked it – it worked for me. Now I am in hyper drive trying
to get Windows 7 figured out, trying to down-load CS6, and am totally
lost in my TAO class.
Okay, getting back in the real world
again was definitely a must, but like all of you I’d rather be
creating things. If I could afford for someone else to photograph my
work I would. I’d also pay for cleaning the house and cooking
meals but then I ain’t Oprah either so I might as well just skip
that happy fantasy plan.
So, soon I will purchase the book Window 7 for
dummies and try to dig into it. Last night and today totally
challenged any menopausal brain cells I have left. I’ve never had
a computer drive that didn’t have en eject button – Really –
WTF. When the darn disc was in it and wouldn’t come out I had
flash backs of discs and cassettes getting stuck in tape players.
You and I all know people who’ve had to dig one of those things out of
the slot. Sometimes you got lucky and sometimes the machine ended up
toast.
I got it out – not manually. I did
was as my DD always says – “Mom, Google it”. I found the answer
and out it came. I will also say this dinosaur nearly packed the
Samsung back into it’s cute little box for a return to the Best Buy
store.
Now just how am I going to get this
class accomplished? – Maybe if I tape recorded the whole thing while
he’s teaching since I think I’m going to end up messing up a lot
of info while fighting my computer. I leave in a week and I promise
to practice but don’t hold your breath We’ve family coming –
a wedding and lots of packing to do. If you see me at the show just
give me a pat on the back and help take some good notes while we are
in class, I'll be the one with my hair standing on straight end and
making little twirls of it to pull out.
4 comments:
Oh Sharon, I shall pray for you. You will need all the help you can get. I too have an old computer and am using XP still. I shudder when I have to upgrade. I don't learn new things easily - unless I want to of course!
I really want to learn the Photoshop CS6 but I will definitely admit I didn't want three learning curves at the same time. Computer/Windows 7/and the Photoshop. If I could have found a Dell that didn't take over a week to get here I'd of gone with the Dell just to take it out of the equation. Trust me - plenty of shuddering going on here...
Huh? All those big words...You are way beyond me!!!
All I've been doing this week is making jewelry to submit to Stringing. The deadline is upon us. Well, I do mean that's all I've been doing and my hair looks just like the picture in your post. On me, it isn't cute. Today, I wash it-stringing will just have to wait.
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