I am feeling overwhelmed by change. First we changed our cell phones, dumping our land line but keeping our land line number on my husband’s cell. Seemed sensible, but the new phones we got have me confused…so far…and sometimes I can’t pick up a call or make a call when I want to without a lot of fumbling around. And it seems like whenever I open my phone I’ve inadvertently hit the camera button and it’s a camera not a phone.
Then my laptop has been updated with Windows 7. The good news is that it’s WAY faster. The bad news is that sometimes it jumps around when I least expect it. Probably I touch something that I don’t realize I’m touching. And there are other things that seem weird that I will have to get used to. But it’s all good. I think. Except I can’t figure out how to download pictures from the camera anymore. I think I can download video now, which I couldn’t do before…but I’m not sure. Husband will have to show me. So that’s why the new pictures of Katie remain on the camera and are not in this blog!
Then today I updated my blog to the newest WordPress, and noted that there was another header thingy I could use…so I tried that, and as you can see it is different. I think I can customize the header but I haven’t worked that out yet. When I first switched to the new look I lost my blogroll and a bunch of other stuff over on the right. Now I’ve gotten the blogroll back, and added a cluster map and a tag cloud and and and…I’m pretty proud that I figured out how to do that through the “widgets” on the dashboard.
But here’s the rub. I can’t figure out how to get into the administration of my blog again now. Used to be there was a spot down at the bottom where I could log in…and that’s gone and I don’t know the html to get that back. So when I sign out of this I might not be able to get back in until I get my administrator (hiya Spike!) to fix this problem for me.
Kind of scared to log out now…
Change Is Hard 
August 2, 2010 at 4:53 pm
I love the new look of your blog, so I sure hope you can get back in! Getting new stuff is always fun but a major pain at the same time as you have to relearn everything.
I got your comment about the whistle recall and we do still practice it but probably not enough. It needs to be practiced now with more distractions but it’s scary to try if I’m not sure it will work. Then it’s also hard to remember the take the darn whistle everywhere. I do think the work we have done on the whistle recall (and the long reward Ricky gets whenever he comes – I dole out tiny bits of treats for like 30 seconds or more so it’s a big deal to him), has strenghtened our regular “Ricky, come!” recall. So that’s a good thing. Still never want to have to try it as he barrels full speed ahead towards a car ……..
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August 2, 2010 at 5:03 pm
I know how you feel about learning new gadgets. Irritating. I have always bought the same brand name cell phone, because they then work basiclly the same. (My daughter taught me that. LOL) I like the new pictures on top of the blog. Diana
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August 2, 2010 at 5:59 pm
Your blog looks great. Wish I could come over. I love playing with new tech stuff and figuring it all out by pressing buttons.
Have you taken any photos of the inside of your pockets yet with your new phone? Love when that happens.
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August 2, 2010 at 7:38 pm
The buttons on the side of my phone seem to always jump to where my fingers are – so I change volume level frequently and hit the camera button too often. I love Windows 7, but it took awhile to get used to it. Good luck with the learning process!
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August 2, 2010 at 8:31 pm
Love the look of the blog. Hope you can log back in. LOL
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