Computer Problems

My laptop died last week.  Multiple problems:  turns itself on and off, keys don't work, sometimes it doesn't turn on unless I take out the battery.  All of the issues happen randomly.  I went to drop it off at Best Buy last week.  I had 45 minutes between a soccer game and the time I was supposed to meet my friend.  How long can it take to drop off a computer, right?  I mean the soccer field was about 8 minutes from Best Buy.  Well, you can't just drop off a computer at Best Buy.  You have to make an appointment to drop off a computer (who do they think they are?  The Apple Store?). So I waited in line to get an appointment, and then I waited a half hour until my appointment.

 They said it would take 3 days unless it had to be sent back to the factory.  Monday I found out that it is being sent back to the factory.  So now I'm using a clunky old computer we keep in the playroom.  I am not a computer expert.  Way back in 1986, when floppy discs were really floppy,  I worked in a lab that was state of the art.  We had PCs hooked to  automated sampling equipment, a network, a PC that acted as a server, and we sent our encrypted data to our clients. Then I had babies, quit work, and computers passed me by.  I am thrilled to death that I got iTunes and audible set up on this old computer without my husband's help. 

Today's challenge will be to try to get pictures off my camera and onto this computer.  There is no card slot on this computer.  I'll have to find the cables that go to the camera and read the manual.  I hope the cables are in the camera box. If not, I think I'm out of luck.

I've made a few more dresses and a pair of low rise pants for my niece's American Girl doll.  Now I have to find some sort of tunic pattern to cover up her belly when she wears the pants.  There are many free patterns for doll clothes on line. I've also been working on a baby quilt, and I got the Project of Doom quilt back from the longarmer and bound it on Sunday.  So lots of pictures to share if I get this camera/computer transfer figured out.