I went to a birthday party last night.     The birthday "Boy" was 81 and dying of lung cancer.

I took my camera and took his picture with everybody in small groups.     He was very patient and did every request with enthusiasm I know he did not feel.       Corky is well loved in this community!      Everybody wanted a print of the photos I took of them with Corky.

Now,  the photos are gone.

I was downloading them to my standby pc.     My main pc died last june.       As I was trying to download the 4 gigabyte memory card to my new/back up computer it froze.       As this was the first time I have tried using such a large card with this pc it did not occur to me that It was incompatible.     It froze,   I waited.    I waited.    I tried to do something/anything else.

Nothing worked.       I did the three finger salute.    Got the task manager and did a forced stop to the program not responding.      Then I pulled the card out of the pc and put it back in.     Then I learned that the card was now scrambled,  and in need of a re-format.

WHAT????????         How could this be?????       The memory card was a 4 gig card and had never been used in my new/back up computer before.       It was incompatible with this pc.

I am so disgusted right now I have been screaming for the last half day!!      I let everybody down.       I feel like such a moron.