Happy New Year – 2017!

Hi and a happy New Year to you! I wanted to start the new year out with a huge bang. Be sure to grab your first 2017 download for the year by clicking the calendar below. This month is the complete 2017 monthly calendar- a very basic calendar you can print and write down your important dates. Yes, we will be organized this year- this is my personal New Year’s resolution; getting organized.

gmas 2017 calendar

Looking at the big picture can really stress me out. I must break this huge picture down and work on smaller sections at a time. This will be my approach with the calendar. I have chosen to use a basic calendar for appointments, days off from work, birthday’s, marking when payments are due, etc. you get the idea. You may wonder how this will help me get organized. Too many times when someone asks me to do something, I immediately agree. Well, this has caused some rather stressful moments at times. My plan is to mark on this calendar everything I am committed to. Before I accept an invite, commit to something- I will first consult my calendar. The easiest will be using the Google calendar. I can pull it up on all of my devices that are connected to the internet. Second, I love software! I downloaded Calendar Creator and will easily be able to import information from my Google calendar to create fun calendars.

The printed calendar is my visual motivation to get and stay organized. I am picturing my goal each time I look at it!

What do you do to be organized? What tips or tricks do you find useful?

Happy New Year to you!

Best Wishes,
debra

New Computer Not Reading SD Card

Hi, as you have read- my computer crashed last month. I must repeat this one important message- remember to take the time to back every single file up to a secure location! Okay now that we have that established…….

Working on this week’s post, I went to download pictures from Thanksgiving and my youngest grand-daughters first birthday party. Since the crash, most of my software programs have been re-installed on the new computer. Previously I downloaded images from my Nikon camera SD card just fine. Well this evening I opened Lightroom ready to import the Sony images. Nothing. I went to the file manager to locate the SD card- not there. This took forever to figure out why my computer was not reading my Sony camera SD card when it could read the Nikon camera SD card.

My computer is hp Pavillion Desktop Windows 10 and the camera with issues- Sony NEX-5N. The following steps listed below fixed my problem with computer not reading my cameras SD card- an update to the card reader driver.

First, I had to locate the device manager.



If you have any computer issues, BestBuy has a service available to assist with scenarios such as this.

Best Wishes,
debra

PS- The first year birthday images will be in the next post!