Today, I got inspired to tackle tasks I have been avoiding. Primarily transfer my Itunes from my old computer and pictures from my digital camera onto my laptop. In order to do this I have to get on a bus and go the Staples, which is ok because I really need a case for the computer too. I dig out the coupons they gave me when I purchased it. I finally make it to the store. Ooh, pens. I need pens. I really like Uniballs. Staples is a big store and I will not bore you with my ADD aisle by aisle however, I never knew that Staples could offer such an outlet for impulse shopping. They make these cute little skins for like everything. At one point I had to go back and get a basket because I could not hold everything in my arms. I make my way to the cable aisle…I ask the guy what I need. I explain to him that I need to move the Itunes from my old computer that I bought in 2000 to my new laptop. After a few questions I learn that Belkin makes any easy transfer cable that allows one to move things from XP to Windows 7. Easy Peasy. Check out time. In line I decide that the wireless mouse can wait which means I don’t need the mouse pad. And I don’t need the case and the skin. The skin is cute but the bag is more practical. I still need the pens.
Back home. Soon I will have access to my 5000 plus songs. Crap. I have to download software on to the OLD computer. I don’t have a monitor. I don’t know if it is possible to tether it to my laptop. If it is possible I have no idea how to do that. Oy Vey. This is supposed to be easy. I will have to call my friend Brian tomorrow to see what I need to do. I really wanted to be able to do this myself. Such is life. Ok, well all is not lost. I still have the camera. Find camera. Check. Find USB cable for camera. Check. Download the software. Hold. Not compatible with Windows 7. Crap. Wait, all might not be lost I just bought a cable to transfer things from XP to 7. Oh, did I download the software on that computer? I don’t know. Well, if I did not I will have to hope someone has a solution. I don’t even know where the disk is.
So here I sit with more cords attached to my computer than ICU patient. A large CPU circa 2000 which has a drive for floppies and is nothing more than a large storage for my music. No Itunes and no pictures. I know that it will all get resolved but it is more than a average annoyance.
As I have mentioned in pervious blogs, I have ADD and partially finished projects drive me nuts. Every unfinished chore brings up a swell of memories and validates my disempowering conversation about myself that I am a screw up (again this is a family friendly blog). On the surface it seems like an innocent minor breakdown. To me it is a validation of every crummy thing educators and the like said to and about me when I was growing up. I am reminded of getting yelled at for not doing my homework or not doing it correctly. Mostly, I just feel like a big failure because I cannot complete something that seems so simple.
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Alyssa, as you know, I do this for a living. People think I'm a computer wizard.
ReplyDeleteYou've heard of math anxiety? Everybody has math anxiety. Albert Einstein had math anxiety. Some people have it in high school, some people have it in college. The really, really smart ones have it in graduate school, at MIT...but it's out there, waiting for everyone.
And now, so it is with computers. I've been learning about computers for 40 years. I've lived through the entire computer revolution.
And today, it feels like all I've done is expand the realm of what I know that I don't know.
So I know how you feel.