Computer Karma

It's my computer karma again- bad karma. Last year almost all of my documents were trashed by our computer support person. I'll mention no names. The greatest loss was my grade book for which I had a paper back up but had to re-enter them from the beginning of the semester. It took me maybe 30 hours to complete it. Then mounds of lost curriculum, digital photos and personal items.

This year during the testing I had a few extra minutes, so I decided to clear out some of the "useless" programs. One of those useless programs deemed my keyboard and mouse non workable. This same computer support person assured me that she could save all of my data. Unfortunately she doesn't count what is on my desktop as part of my data. Fortunately I had some backup this time. I only had to reenter a month's worth of grades instead of three months.

I must give tech person some credit. She gave me the Adobe Suite as a sendoff. I have loaded both in the upstairs PC and my Mac Mini. She called me and asked if I still had the laptop that I had purchased with the tech funds. I have it. "It's more than five years old." I said. "I don't think so." She answers. In fact at this moment I am thinking of purchasing a mini pc- 2 and a half pounds for my trip to Italy.

To round out this computer ramble just two weeks ago our local market sponsored a computer recycling day. The place where monitors are taken then shipped to China to build up landfill there. I brought them one monitor, one purple imac, an old PC and miscellaneous electronic junk. I save the hard drives for posterity.