Adrenaline

Last night's annoyance, that spilled over into this morning, again had to do with the Visor and the memory module. I bought the Palm eBook Studio a couple of days ago, and I've been happily creating ebooks out of bits and pieces--knitting patterns, stories I've saved from free sources on the web, etc.

Last night I was transferring some of them to the memory module via the handheld (I don't know whether it had anything to do with anything or not, but I always try to remember what I was doing when disaster strikes) and I suddenly got a message that the memory module was corrupt, that it had to be reformatted, that reformatting would cause me to lose everything that was on the module, so, "okay," or "cancel?"

I held out some hope that this was a mistake, and chose "cancel," but got the same message again, tried "cancel," again, and the third time I got it, gave in. Who knows, I might have been able to do something else, like take the module out and put it back in, but I thought oh well, and said "okay." And waited while everything on the 8MB memory module was erased.

Maybe it had been dying for awhile, maybe that was the cause of all the previous problems.

I started loading it back up, which is a real pain, because you can't put anything on it directly, you have to install it to the handheld, then transfer it, and the whole point of the module anyway is that I don't have any room on the Visor itself, so I had to transfer things one at a time, and be very careful that I wasn't installing something too large for the heldheld, and then of course, I did--I had several things going on at one time, a book or two, maybe a short story, a 300 KB browser . . .

I got the "insufficient room on the handheld to install" error message or something, and the memory module was gone again. This time, taking it out and putting it back in again did fix it. What a pain. I lost a bunch of stuff, but I guess I'll just wait until I actually miss it to try to figure out what it was. Just a bunch of word processing documents that were probably unimportant anyway. And which I'm sure I have other places anyway. But man, all that panic adrenalin . . . every time it happens, it's less, though, I guess, which is good. Just like anything, the more it happens, the less power it has over you.

Oh, and something else new--there's now a Palm Reader desktop version, which is cool. It lets you read Palm Reader documents on a Mac or PC, not just on a handheld.

Demonstrating that the stripes on her legs match. (A very strange cat!)