There are times when I wonder about the course I’ve embarked upon since it contains so little of the actions I should be taking and so many that seem so diversionary. I have to fix things. Frequently.

This morning the computer wouldn’t boot. It just made a clicking sound and some lights blinked ominously. I unplugged everything and drug it to somewhere else in the house and it booted. So I replaced the power strip. Actually I tried to but there were problems. In the end I plugged everything back to the same power strip and pulled out four cables that weren’t doing anything but making a tangled mess. I vacuumed the floor around all the cables and somehow it all works again.

It seems I’m in a long running repair cycle right now.

Today for example I repaired my glasses. That’s just what needs done and I did it in less time than it would have taken to drive to have some one else do it. They’re wire frames and though fragile looking they hold up well and are repairable. Today it was the simple removal of the ear pieces and closing of the curl at the ends with needle nose pliers.

Then it was a pair of pants whose zipper tag fell off so I replaced it with a bit of wire loop which then caught in the fabric so it was impossible to zip them up. I am not throwing them out so I had to get the tools out and see about reclaiming the lost functionality.

Then I’d devised a solution to bring the projector out of cold storage and press it into service. It was no good to feed the signal to it via the tablet after all the research that was so promising. So today I found a camera solution and bought an HDMI cable that will join the devices. A wifi module is on it’s way here also.

I searched again for the missing tablet and finally found it where I’d left it. It was disguised as a book. Geeze. I get a lot of use out of that thing.

Then I determined that I would go see my grand daughter and her family and present her with a birthday gift but I got sidelined in a parking lot by car failure that led to a ride home in a tow truck.

During the course of the day I’d familiarized myself with essential settings on an electronic device I expect to get excellent use from. So strange how the programmers designed it so that features are available only with setting buttons and wheels turned just exactly so. This is to be expected, but not in the ways it was found to be. For example shooting raw is only available under certain shoot types, but not on full auto. And the focal length is available for setting on the big adjustment ring but again only in certain voodoo scenarios I have not yet mastered. Raw format shooting was a must for me, but I find that to transfer those images that were shot raw, first I must process them on the computer then place them on a chip to place in the camera to use the camera for the delivery. It is my practice to design the composition then project it to the exact size I need it rather than use the old fashioned, slow, and sloppy methods. My old projector was just fine, but the new one looks so much better that now the old one is the backup instead of the other way around. I should have pressed this thing into action three years ago when I bought it. But the computer that would  have fed it images had lower resolution than it does. So no gain.

I went back to the book store in a car that actually works and picked out some books for other people.