Time

I was again going to call this an Office Build Update but then I would be telling the truth. The fact is that I have no Tuesday progress in the office. In fact I am getting slightly defeated in the knowledge that my last week off is rapidly coming to a close and I am not even close in the office. Of course there are always circumstances that cause distractions or delays here and there.

Yes I know last week was a wash with the kids in town and it being Thanksgiving and all but that still left two weeks to make some serious progress.

Today... Well, it pretty was spent working with Windows. For the longest time my wife has been waiting for me to get a laptop set up for her sewing machines. I broke out the last remaining windows laptop in the house and set to working on it.

First order of business was to dump as much junk as I possibly could. Not only for disk space but to help the speed of the machine. Off with the Spyware, gone with the anti-virus, and I even sent iTunes to the bit bucket. All music and pictures gone baby gone. Then it was onto the loading process. Right! Can you say 3 1/5 inch floppy disks. Oops, that threw a wrench into the soup. My old Gateway which I had transitioned to the iMac over a year ago had a 3.5" floppy.

After dragging that box out (pictured on table) and transferring a whole bunch of files into their own folder that I would then burn to a CD and put on the laptop. After scouring the two drives for sewing files for two different types of machines I came up with 684 files. The real amazing thing about this is the RAW image above is just slightly smaller that all those files.

Technology is wonderful but I think it has made the tech industry lazy. The amount of programing power/KB just six years ago was so much greater than it is now. Don't get me wrong I totally enjoy and am amazed with what out computers can do for us but good night, the size of these applications is just incredible.

I really hope to have better news about the office tomorrow. But that is it for now.

Cya... Doug