Decided it was time I did my Christmas cards ....

and I have this document saved with all the addresses on it. Just have to check it out and print off the labels, Easy peasy.

Except I reformatted my desk-top recently, didn't I?

Never mind, I'm sure I saved them on my meory stick - I save EVERYTHING onto my memory stick.

Now my desk top is upstairs - laptop, memory sticks and lots of other stuff all downstairs. I come down and get the sitck I think has the info on it. Nothing.

Back downstairs for the others. Still nothing. hmmm

Then I remember I have another stick in the laptop - ostensibly full of all My Pictures, but you never know. Back downstairs and up again.

Nothing!

then ah!! I have an external hard drive - bound to be on there!

Back downstairs - and up with the EHD which I go to plug in - wrong USB lead!


Downstairs - this time I'm getting clever - I take ALL my USB leads back up with me. Get it plugged in.

Rats - no software on the pc - got to install it. Ferret around for the CD, find it and install

"No device recognised" HUH??

Ah - haven't switched it on. Switch it on. Nothing happens. need the main cable which is


downstairs ......


Go fetch it (and the other 3 that are in the box - getting canny now!)

Plug it all in. STILL not recognising the device! Rats - give up on this. I'll type all the addresses by hand from my Palm top.

But hey - why do that when I can copy/paste from the back up.

But ....

no software installed


The cd is


downstairs!!


Fetch the cd and install it. Hang it, I haven't got the USB cable for the Palm. It is


downstairs!!


Fetch it and plug everything in. Install software. Restart computer. Hot-Synch the Palm which is supposed to dublicate everything on the Palm into the programme on the PC. Everything wirrs and tings satisfyingly.

I rub my hands - NOW I'll be able to start on my Christmas card list.

Open the programme


- it's empty!


Did it three more times and each time it SAID it had synchronised the contents of the Palm with that on the PC but didn't.



Now I unplug everything and give up!

 

Now I unplug everything and give up!...... and then go back to the old fashioned way and write out all the addresses by hand.Thanks for that Daisees I havn't had a good laugh like that in years,you sound a bit like me,that is the sort of thing I would do....If I was more Computer Literate:gnthb::lollol::hehe:

 

Made my day............... thanks for the larf
Mrs Capney keeps a list inside the christmas card box...
thats easy..
no USB..HDD..stick or cables.
all you need is a pen.
robert

 

It's supposed to be quicker if you can print your labels :hehe::hehe:

 

I enjoyed that Daisees .... made me laugh ... at the same time felt sorry for you.

I haven't 'sent' cards since we moved here seven years ago because basically they don't 'do' cards here. Not the 'thing' for any occasion. In saying so, a couple of places sell cards ... very limited choice ... but I'm sure such is available in places like Faro, Lisbon, Oporto, etc.

I just make my own by photographing something and e-mail them to folk.

 

Daisees---:hehe: Hope you finally got your list.

Anyway, Christmas Cards, I am hit or miss with them, I think they should be sent to people far away. Folks I talk to everyday don't need a merry from me.
Some folks send me one of those, Christmas letters, you know, the update of the year with all the positive things they did or made or become, children ect, jobs ect. house projects ect.
One day I will write a reality one and send it.

 

:lollol::lollol:
I only send cards to family back home in Ireland. Friends over here don't get one, I honesty can't see the point of them, most of the time. And as for the cost of the stamps!

 

Bah humbug! This will be the first year I don`t bother with them. The only trouble is the kids like to write theirs out and distribute amongst their friends. I can`t get out of it no how-although I could try to speak to the school about a no card policy on the grounds of ecology.

 

I've no problem with hand delivered cards. I tend to buy quantities of cards in the sales in January and did it so much I haven't actually bought any cards (except for close family ones) for a bout three years! Next year I might have to.

But when you consider the price of even a really cheap card is something like £1 and the postage is 27p - or 36p if a large one, well the cost is just prohibitive. 20 cards would set you back over £25!!!

I can think of a lot better things I could do with £25 than spend it on waste paper!

 

As a lark though----I 've wanted to send a bunch out from the little town a few miles from me and have that post office stamp the card with their town name.
Intercourse, PA

 

Redstar you have to do that, brilliant idea, I wish I could to that even if it was just once

I try not to send many it's just my 8 year old and the 80 or so kids in his school that keeps the paper mills going:lol:

 

Exactly. And that's just sending them in the UK. A lot of our relations are either in Ireland or New Zealand...ouch. Maybe that's why I don't send to anyone else!

 

Luckily my family are close at hand ,so can deliver by hand mostly. Next year Ive decided I'm going to make my own with photos Ive taken myself. (Jes I must be getting old:hehe: ) 02