{"id":1821,"date":"2011-08-15T07:00:10","date_gmt":"2011-08-15T11:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/?p=1821"},"modified":"2014-09-29T12:26:03","modified_gmt":"2014-09-29T16:26:03","slug":"36511-a-lovehate-relationship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/36511-a-lovehate-relationship\/","title":{"rendered":"365+#11: A Love\/Hate Relationship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Stuff-e-mails.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-469\" title=\"Stuff-e-mails\" src=\"http:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Stuff-e-mails-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>You may remember that several months ago I got a new computer and blogged about <a title=\"Letting Go of the Familiar\" href=\"http:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/?p=1628\">Letting Go of the Familiar<\/a>. At that time I put off cleaning up the convoluted way my files were organized thinking I had enough to do just to learn Windows 7 and Microsoft 10. The day of reckoning came, however, when I couldn\u2019t find the right location to load PDFs onto my website. I finally needed to deal with this.<\/p>\n<p>The specifics are way too complicated to go into now. Suffice it to say that I contacted tech support twice and spent a total of 3\u00bd hours on hold and talking to various tech support people. One of the solutions involved copying all my files to a different place on my computer. I didn\u2019t want to do a global replace since I wasn\u2019t sure it would save my most recent file. This means I now have over 4,000 duplicate documents, all with a cute little \u201c(2)\u201d designating the duplicate. I\u2019ve started the painstaking task of deleting all the duplicates but I have to visually check any document created in the last four months to make sure I save the most recent one.<\/p>\n<p>For awhile I stewed about this time consuming task and my irritation was increasing. It even distracted me from morning prayer. This was good, because I started to pray my gratitude prayer and focus on reality.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This is going to take time, but computers also save me time.<\/li>\n<li>This is not a life and death situation and my fretting about it will not change anything.<\/li>\n<li>It is good that there are people and services like free tech support that patiently helped me through the conversion (despite the decision to copy every document).<\/li>\n<li>When I hear on the news about the starving people in Somalia, people near me with life-threatening illnesses, the unemployed desperately seeking work to feed their families, and all the other real problems of those near and far, this pales as a problem.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So, just as I have to let go of duplicate material goods, I\u2019m now letting go of duplicate words and the time it takes to do it. Sometimes getting rid of stuff consumes a lot of time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may remember that several months ago I got a new computer and blogged about Letting Go of the Familiar. At that time I put off cleaning up the convoluted way my files were organized thinking I had enough to do just to learn Windows 7 and Microsoft 10. The day of reckoning came, however, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[28],"class_list":["post-1821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-extra-fun","tag-electronics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1821"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3716,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1821\/revisions\/3716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}