Wednesday, June 13, 2007
Daring to start to look at what I haven't got
Posted in Musings
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If that seems an odd title for a blog entry, I will explain. I'm one of those people with a visual memory - a near-photographic memory in some circumstances, and I work very visually. You will appreciate this has its plus points, though I hasten to explain that a casual glance at something doesn't impress it on my mind forever. I have to do some processing but, once something is there in my mind, I can go back and look at it for some time to come. It was so with a number of photos I took and stored on the computer - using one or another as background meant I became very familiar with them... and I love my photos. Did anyone ever hear of backing up a computer? Well, of course, but some are better at it than others and mine hadn't been backed up for ages when, early this year, it went into major failure and I lost all the photos. Our computer-techie friend managed to retrieve a certain amount including my precious pictures and put them onto CD for me but do you know... I've never dared look at them. I am afraid he may not have found them all (although I've no reason to suppose he missed any). For the last few months I've been viewing them only in my mind. Today a new element came into the story: I discovered a Christian scrapbooking shop near where I live, which in turn had me looking for sites for printables but... I lost all those links when the computer went down. I had so many - some I won't miss, others I had been back to time and again but, as they were saved to favourites, I didn't necessarily remember the details. I feel as though they are so close, as if, by leaning close to the screen in my mind and screwing my eyes up to focus on the tiny, blurry letters, I could make them out and type in the details again. I can't. They are only there as a drop-down menu, too fuzzy to see the details. If I opened the CD of photos and found some were missing, I would have to face up to real loss, because most aren't backed up anywhere else and I can't get the pictures out of my mind onto a screen again. At least with websites, a certain amount of searching has already found some old friends - and a new one too, come to think of it. I think I will have a look back through my blog and see what sites I saved here. I don't think there were any craft ones but there may be something! |
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