I almost blogged the 31 things in 31 days but I missed by 4. To be fair, I had two days of shopping fun with my daughter and then a catastrophic event that consumed 2 days. Then I needed one day to decompress from the stress. The recap of these events goes as follows:
#28 – Drink: I don’t drink alcohol often so when someone says drink I think of my morning coffee and warm water with lemon. Special occasions are different, such as when my husband and I went to Oregon earlier this year. That deserved a pre-flight mimosa for me and bloody Mary for him.
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When I went out to dinner the other night with my girls they were having a happy hour special with drinks for $1 at Applebee’s so I had to try one of their spooky specials. It was basically fruit punch with some rum and a “brain” gummy floating in it. I’ll have more to say on that experience in another post.
#29 – Smell: My favorite smell is vanilla. I also think there is nothing like the smell of fresh baked donuts or cinnamon rolls, or bread or the smell of a good steak cooked on a barbecue or berry pie, and lemon, I like the smell of lemon. Think all my smells are associated with food? Pretty much – LOL. I am really not fond of smells like lavender or jasmine. They are too perfumey for me. I like fresh and clean scents.
#30 – 3:35 PM. Here is where we get to the stressful incident. On the 30th at 3:35 PM I was in a state of anguish because I had done a really stupid thing on Saturday and upgraded my Mac software to the newest version, Mojave, but I forgot to check its compatibility with my other necessary work software, Olympus DSS. I went through this scenario once before when Mac took the Rosetta compatibility away and I didn’t upgrade then until I knew it was safe for all my programs, so I should have been smart enough to double check before upgrading but it has been a while so I forgot.
Since I hadn’t done any work Saturday or Sunday because I went shopping with my daughter (which I shouldn’t do because it resulted in a new cellphone for her, my husband and I and then new curtains for the kitchen!), I didn’t realize that they wouldn’t play together until Monday. I couldn’t open the program I needed so I went to the Olympus website and it said right on the front page – Not Compatible With Mojave, Do Not Upgrade 😦 Of course I Googled all the “fixes” for the problem and spent Monday backing up my photos and other important documents onto my laptop and into the Cloud. Fortunately I had not done the upgrade to my laptop so I was able to do my work from there but I can’t do my work on that all the time. I had to uninstall the Mojave upgrade.
I am not afraid to try things but I am really not computer savvy when it comes to the programming aspect and when the “fixes” started talking about going to the terminal and typing in commands I was out of my league. One “simple” fix was to reboot from my back up disk which fortunately I had. It showed that the most recent backup was September (so there obviously was an issue with the backup drive too) but at least that was before the Mojave incident and since I had been able to move my files to my laptop I was okay with going back to September. I tried doing the reboot thing but it kept starting back up with Mojave. Finally I was able to talk to my son whose roommate is a computer genius and after I established with them that I had tried everything I could by myself, his roommate promised to come over when he got off work to see what he could do. There were a few tense moments and my computer was reluctant to cooperate at first but finally Steve triumphed and there was a reboot in progress. By the end of the night I could see that it was starting up again in the correct program, High Sierra, and that I would be able to piece things back together.
#31 – Joy How fitting that the last of my 31 words is joy because that is exactly what I felt when I was able to get back into my work programs and even though I had to put in some passwords again on a few of my sites, at least I know that everything will be okay. I will not make that rookie mistake again!
So, Noted in November begins with these last few bits of October. Tomorrow we’ll start fresh…thank goodness!
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It amazes me that operating system changes catch so many corporations with their pants around their ankles. I can see it with open source or shareware, but proprietary software issued by companies without which their hardware won’t talk to the computer is kind of critical. I know people who are still running Windows NT because the manufacturer of a scanner (or a dictation machine) hasn’t upgraded the required software to work properly with later Windows releases. Microsoft isn’t even supporting NT anymore, and it’s riddled with vulnerabilities.
And, of course, Mac is the redheaded stepchild in the business computing world. If it takes a year to upgrade the Windows software, it’ll take two years to upgrade the Mac software…
Have you been running into situations where, when you go to launch a program, a box comes up telling you that you need to update the software because eventually Apple plans on dropping support for 32-bit and going exclusively 64-bit? It started happening with the last maintenance release of High Sierra (10.13.6).
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I haven’t seen that pop up yet and I am not sure what exactly 32-bit and 64-bit means. All I know is that with High Sierra, Version 10.13.6 all my essentials play nicely together so I’m not changing anything until I read that all my programs will continue to play nicely if I switch. There was a period where I couldn’t update operating systems when Apple took Rosetta out of the equation (I think that was around Lion?) I had to wait a couple of years/operating systems before I could update.
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Sorry you suffered computer issues — I feel for you. We’re all so dependent on them, and then you with your work, Oof!
I had to do a reset earlier this year and I lost a lot 😦 I’m glad you got most of yours back with the reboot 🙂
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I realize I have WAY too many pictures still on my computer. Putting decluttering on my to-do list. For now, I’ve gotten space on the cloud for things to sit for a while. I was really lucky that even though the backup disk was September, I didn’t lose much.
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🙂
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Computers are so touchy. For my last upgrade, the printer and my version of Photoshop wouldn’t work. I could fix the printer by a download but I had to buy a new Photoshop version. Argh!
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Yeah, they seem to get you no matter what!
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Computers are a test, always. Vanilla is a nice smell. I like lavender and there’s a deodorant by Schmidt’s Naturals called Snow Day that smells soooo good. Happy November!
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Snow day sounds delicious. I saw an air freshener one year that was marshmallow scented. Couldn’t find that one again, darn it.
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Thank you for showing your vulnerable side, so appealing.
I’m always leary about installing new software. I get alerts about upgrading to the newest Mac OS, but I’ll hold off until I get technical help. And I rely on my web guy for upgrades on my blog. He has warned me that installing WordPress updates may cause plugin problems. Glad you got a fix at month’s end.
You are so good at creating suspense. I look forward to hearing what happened when you ingested that brain gummy drink. Thanks for all of this, Janet. 🙂
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Thanks Marian. I was happy it was at month’s end as well and glad/not glad that my transcription work has been slow this week. I’d have been in a real panic if the work was coming in and I couldn’t do it! More to come on the Applebee’s experience for sure.
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Sorry about the computer issues….but everything else sounds great!
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Thanks! We live and learn, right?
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Exactly!
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I’m not computer savvy either, Janet. Sorry to hear it was such a stressful situation. I’ve thought about switching to a Mac, but I’m not sure I’d be able to figure out how to use it.
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That is exactly why I have a Mac, it is SO easy. All I have to do on a normal basis is click on the little pictures and they take me where I want to go. All that /abec/-con\ gobbledegook is too hard for me.
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Computer problems can drive one to drink. I try to know as little as possible about how computers work so that when something goes wrong I have no inclination to fix it. I figure that any attempt I’d make will make things worse. Of course, I’ve never tried drinking a mimosa before I tackle computer problems. It could only help, right?
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Ally, you get me. I was going to open this post with the computer issue being the reason I drink but didn’t. Usually just hitting the back button works to fix anything I might try to do except for this time. It was the worst experience I’ve had. Having a mimosa certainly would have taken some of the anguish away.
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