Today I had the best of the day during my walk this morning. It has since been gloomy, with rain every once in awhile. I came back from the grocery store a bit ago and it was quite cool. I still had my walking shorts on but a few of the other older folks had jackets, and I mean real jackets that I might drag out in December.
It was a good day to work with my embroidery files. There are just a few too many flash drives on the shelf by the sewing machine. It was time to tidy them up onto the Bernina Flash Drive. Tidily named files makes it easy to scope out what I am looking for.
When Lorraine was here I had downloaded some embroidery pattern that she wanted to share with me. At the time I had loaded them on the SanDisk flash drive. Today was the day to get them on the Bernina flash drive. I was making great headways. A file for the “7 Days of Dishtowels” and a file for embroidering recipes on towels called “Recipe Towels.” All was going well. Just one more file and it was called “Cut Work.” Sitting at the computer in the living room, something distracted me and I looked up not realizing my left hand was hovering over the palm pad. I had opened a file from the SanDisk and all the EXP files were ready to move over to a document file and after that the Bernina flash drive would be loaded with them. As I looked up it took me awhile to realize what was blinking like crazy. Talk about speed. Wham . . . they were gone. Honest to God, I have yet to figure out just where the hand hover needs to be to initiate the deleting.
Needless to say there was a huge lesson learned for the remaining computer work. It has happened to me when typing for the daily blog that somewhere in that left hand hover, I would lose everything. I did ask the Geek Squad about disabling the palm pad 100% but that didn’t happen to be addressed at the last visit.
Live and learn. When walking, keep those steps high. When typing, keep that arthritic left hand high . . . or AWAY from the palm pad.