Quick catchup? Not that I have done much of anything at all…
You know, I think that I really am struggling to cope with the ageing of my brain. Absolutely nothing makes sense anymore, and I can’t keep more than one idea in my head at a time. Sometimes I can’t even retain that one notion. It would be nice to say that it is just the heat, but I really do believe that my brain is knackered entirely.
It has been a wholly unproductive week since we returned from our previous week away and most of my time has been spent in the uphill battle of familiarising myself with Windoze 11, the new lappie, a fresh installation of Lightroom… and an extremely long-winded attempt to migrate my images into Lightroom. Today, after three days of toil, I successfully emptied my card from the Olympus and migrated over a 1,000 images into my LR catalogue – though only after a great deal of swearing, a ridiculous amount of sighing, and a measure of hair tugging. I only lost something like 8 images in the process.
Now I need to incorporate my cards from the Sony camera. Then my phone images.
It threw me completely when I found that the computer was backing everything up to One Drive. FFS WHY? That baffled me. It took a full ten minutes to work out how to put a stop to it. I keep my backups in Google, thank you very much.
It turns out that we gained a One Drive account each when we subscribed to Microsoft 365 (to get Office access). It also turns out that we have a Terrabyte of storage each there. Google gives me much less, so there’s a task ahead of me in moving my Google images over to One Drive at some point. I want first to review my images, and then to prune them back a long way, before transferring them to Microsoft. And let’s not mention the many thousands of images that I have on external storage from our old PC. All also in need of review.
It’s scary. And it is intimidating. And I am too old for all of this. And it is way too hot for my brain to function at even a basic level.
No progress has been made on completing the Polarsteps record for our last trip. I need to do that. Really need to do that. Tonight would be good but, yes, I have had enough for one day.
There’s also Days 10 – 15 to do for August Break. And I forgot until dinnertime that there’s another lesson today for the Mindfulness Photography thing.
Talk about a Bunny in the Headlights. Where to start? I don’t know!
We are off on another jolly on Tuesday. Just a short one. It involves cheese.
We will come back, probably on Thursday and start the process of turning ourselves around for some proper wanderings – though we shall have another 3 days away at the end of the month, and a fancy dinner for our annual lovefest. Goo fest? Goofiest?
We are thinking Brem sur Mer but need to checking bookability of both campsite and Michelin star restaurant.
What else. Ooh, yes, I bought some black plates. Controversial, I know. Many folks hate black plates and think that food looks awful n them. I am a big fan of plain white plates myself but sometimes black can be fab, and I have broken one of my large Limoges Porcelain dinner plates and can’t seem to replace it around here. Anyway… black plates! It takes very little to please me.
Streaming: watched two eps of Wednesday, then elected to draw stumps on that; Foundation is In Progress. We are bingeing on The Bear, and I am loving it. I don’t know if it’s watching that, or the black plates, but my chefing gene seems to be making a push to the forefront. It would be great, if the other 3 gas rings were working and if the oven had an effective thermostat, but it’s hard to be all cheffy under such circumstances. In fact, I made an abyssmal failure of a batch of Keto bread rolls this week. I have made them very many times and they never fail. I really cannot understand what happened, but I made flatbread rather than rolls!
As per usual, S has been far more productive than I, and the deck is now fully re-sealed. Well done, that man. He has also lost loads of weight, over 11 kilos now, I think. I have been lagging behind but showing a WHOOSH! since yesterday and now have my first goal clearly in sight and ready to be nailed by next weekend’s weigh-in. I’m now 6 Kilos down. I was bemoaning how little I had lost after so long of trying, then he pointed out that we have only been at it for 2 months. It feels like it has been so much longer! I am not yet ready to start buying smaller clothes, but had that thing earlier this week, when I found that I was fastening my bra on the first hooks. A triumph! (not the bra, that’s M&S) We get to cuddle a lot closer now too, which is lovely.
That’s me up to date now I think, on the outline at least. It’s going to be too hot again tomorrow to be out and about, so I am tasking myself with bringing Polarsteps up to date before we go off again. There are so many pictures (and some video) and it will likely take me all day, to the exclusion of all else.