What to Do

I'm torn regarding this whole blog thing. I guess I just don't understand totally how it works yet. I think it's a great outlet for ideas/thoughts/whtever, but how do I know if anyone's reading it?

On the one hand, it's really not so much about others reading it as it is about putting my thoughts down. On the other, human nature is to desire affirmation (confirmation ?) that what we do is worth something to someone. I get grea satisfaction out of writing here, but it would still be nice to know that others are enjoying reading what I write.

Okay, pity party over. I guess I just need to delve into all the internal help and information on this site and figure it out. And since more often than not I don't have projects at work, I have amble time to do so.

Delving into something to figure it out paid off big for me just yesterday. I've been taking lots of pictures with my cell phone, and it was time to get them onto the computer. A seemingly simple task on the surface. Not so simple upon delving in.

Turns out the USB cable to use for transferring files took the pictures from my memory card, but not the pictures from my phone's memory. My techy high school senior wasn't interested in helping me, and my husband (who knows more about computers and how they work than I'll ever even forget) couldn't do it. Understand something -- patience may be a virtue, but it's still in the baby stages with me. Frustration was setting in, and it wasn't going to be pretty.

Then I had an epiphany -- when in doubt find some instructions. I got the phone manual out of the file drawer. It didn't tell me anything that I hadn't already figured out. So, I finally wrote an email to the phone manufacturer explaining what I was trying to do and what was actually happening.

I must admit to being surprised to have an answer back within hours. I sent the note from work, and the answer was in my Inbox when I got home. I followed what it told me to do, and lo and behold I now have a computer with lots of pictures and a phone ready to be cleared to start over.

How often do things in life frustrate us? We delve head-long into things that we don't have the instructions for. Or that we just flat out don't have a clue about. There is one place that we can always turn in situations like that. It's long been called the Instruction Manual for Life. It's actual title is The Bible. It may not have the directions for getting pictures from a phone to a computer, but it can sure cover how to handle frustration and lack of patience.