Computer fun

Not.

There was a time if I mistakenly deleted a file I'd find it quickly in the recycle bin and restore it immediately. Worked well.

Now the recycle bin is protected by the newest version of Norton, and I'm unable, not to mention unwilling, to make heads or tails out of it.

Another example of taking something simple and making it too complicated to contemplate. (hey, there's a title in that!)

So I had to re-edit the file yet again.

But going back a week, I was working quite nicely and suddenly -- poof! -- the power went out. It was 9 p.m. Pitch black. I groped for the flashlight I have on my desk, knocked it over, then when I found it, couldn't turn it on. Who decided to put the button on the very bottom?

We played cards for an hour by a battery-powered lamp, then magically the power returned. Heard it was a Great Blue Heron's fault. That wily hydro company is always blaming birds. Last time it was crows on a wire.

My program, amazingly, recovered the file. However the very next evening the xxxxing computer rudely turned itself off. I still have no idea why. Alas, no recovery this time. 200 pages of edits -- gone. I gritted my teeth and did them all again.

Thought I was done but for one simple thing. I write in Word Perfect and needed to convert the file to Word for Windows. I know very little about Word, but I was ready to try. Except--except (and this is where my stupidity enters the scenario) in my haste to clean up the folder I deleted the edited file. I spent half an hour trying to find it, then gave up, edited the file again made many copies of it this time, kept them all, and finally, finally did the conversion to Word.

I still like and use Word Perfect. It's simple, and I'm familiar with it. I could upgrade, but I won't. Who knows what advancements or enhancements the makers have done to ruin it.

Some things I just have to learn the hard way.

--Cat