A Story With Pictures/ Picasa And Storing Photos/ The Organization Man
A few weeks ago in my ongoing quest to become more organized I went into Picasa and put my photos in order. I set up folders according to events. Many of the photos were already in the right folder. But I must have spend a day making sure wandering photos were returned to their proper place.
Yahoo. I’m a photo rustlin cowboy!
Anyway yesterday or the day before it all runs together in my mind I reformatted my hard drive. And since I had saved all the photos on dvds using the Picasa backup program there didn’t seem to be a problem.
But to my horror when I reloaded the photos off the dvds they all came back in one huge pile without any folders. So now I have about twenty thousand photos just sitting there in a big pile.
Maybe I didn’t do it right. Who knows?
After I reformatted the hard drive I noticed that my speakers were not working. Well we have to have music, right? So I went into Device Manager and there were a bunch of yellow arrows in one area including some that had to do with audio.
If I had deleted those files and started up the computer again Windows would have found the correct driver and installed it. Eventually I did this so I know it works.
But that sixty second exercise only happened after I spent a day going in other directions.
It’s seven am and after finishing this cup of coffee I need to take Zach’s car to the dealership for routine maintenance.
Later I plan to go out to the workshop to continue work on some shelves.
Do I sense a pattern here? I have this dream that someday I will sit down in this chair and everything will be done for a few days or weeks. Everything will be organized. And then we can zip forward into the future like a star ship that has just been refueled.
Bu that day is never going to come is it? It’s all just a pleasant fantasy. There are six billion people on this planet struggling to survive on limited resources. It’s all just a big mess and I’m part of it.
Why do I even try to climb on top of it and look around?
It’s time for a new relaxation exercise. Put on some music and begin deep breathing. Then go to Picasa and look at that big pile of photos. Look at them and smile.
