Copy Cat

 Copy Cat

I’m in the midst of copying ALL of my blog stories from one flash drive onto another at the suggestion of my computer repaairman. The cool thing about him is that he has the same first name as me and he comes to my home. His rates are reasonable and he’s straightened out the problems that I manage to create. I felt really good when he visited this time. My computer keyboard has been my trusty companion for quite a number of years. It’s grown very crusty over the years. This visit I had with a clean, almost virgin keyboard for him to use.

The problem wasn’t really my fault. Several of his other customers were having the same trouble with their computers. The internet server FoxFire had changed. It was creating problems of logging onto the internet with an almost forced compliance to go through a new recognition procedure and that problem overflowed into other programs. It was frustrating. I was glad that he eliminated FoxFire from my computer. I won’t be tempted to use it again.

My computer would no longer connect to my printer. The printer’s an older HP DeskJet, but it’s still functional. An older printer that I had before my HP was required to shut down between printing jobs to prevent the ink tanks from drying out. Tom told me that it was no longer necessary and that I shouldn’t turn it off. Leave it on. I decided to cover the “on/off” switch to prevent me from turning it off. Now I feel bad for scolding my daughter when she visits and forgets to shut it off.

Right now I am in the middle of recopying all of my blog posts, my poetry, my books, and my stories that I’ve saved on other Flash Drives. I’ll now have back up for each tale that I’ve written. I believe that I have 2,500 items to save. From my Blogspot alone, the statistics say that I have nearly 2,200 posts on that site. I am sure that I have at least 300 other writings that I have saved.

It’s a long and tedious process. I know because it’s the second time that I’ve saved these stories. I had ten other flash drives with my thoughts scattered on them with no rhyme or reason. I sorted though each story and wrote a list of titles. I alphabetized the contents and copied them on the new flash drive. Now I am repeating the procedure onto the second drive. It’s such a time consuming and wearying process.