a hard morning /early afternoon

[Dragonkort]

well this has nothing to do with scrolling but since i have no one else to talk to your get to here my rant and raving....i got everything cleaned up the last few days so this morning so got out my 3d printer the instructions and the sd card and TRIED to load the program into my computer.....well i did who knows what and the darn thing would nt  load....and as i was muttering under my breath spike asked what the problem was and i told him i couldnt get the program to load so he took the computer and tried to see what i had done to get things all messed up.. he worked on it for half an hour and couldnt figure out why the program wouldnt load .... so then he took the sd card and put it into his computer and natraily it loaded up just fine....so ok we figure i should be able to go from there with the directions..but of course i couldnt.... i couldnt even get the program to work...sigh in asperation and frustration he yelled at me ( which he seldom does) and said  CAN'T YOU DO ANYTHING!!  He was just frustrated partly because he cant really understand how it works and is having trouble trying to help me figure the thing out. sigh but the way he said it reminded me so much of the way the ex would get frustrated with me because i couldnt seem to do anything and he'd say if your not going to live and you cant learn how to do anything why dont you just go crawl up in a hole somewhere  and die instead of taking up space and air somebody who wants to live and can learn could use. sigh  he didnt mean it that way i know....and he apolized to me but ... ah well im not going to tell him how that made me feel because those are not words spike would ever say to me hes alwaying incourging me to do things and to try things....and he hates the way my family treats me  sigh but its got to be almost unbearable living with a stupid person who messes up everything she tries to do and needs help with everything.... i suggested maybe would could call best buy and see if there keek squied could help us get it set up and he said you can call them and ask.....but of course i cant....just one more of the many things i cant do.. he calmed down some by the time we got home from getting connors scroll saw and i found a sight that might be able to help him get it set up... and he will look into it tomarrow.... if we cant figure it out i'll get the number from ritia for her computer guy and then maybe spike could call him and or best buy to see what if anything we can do to get it set up and running.... and of course now i have the cnc machine that most likely i will not be any more able to get up and running then the 3d printer.....sigh im tired going to go take a nap and pray some how God will help us find a way to get at least one of if not both machines up and running sigh when i wake up i have to save everything on my computer to jump drives because its all mess up  AGAIN and i need to reformat the darn thing AGAIN which really means i put stuff on the jump drives and spike reformats the computer AGAIN....at least i KNOW he can do that so i'll proubly just wind up with 2 very expensive paper weights.... bummed out right now but dont worry this too will pass it always does

[amazingkevin]

I,ve got similar problems. I lost one jump drive and a gross of #5 scroll reverse blades here somewhere with in an arms lenght!!!

[Dragonkort]

im sure you will find them.... since i was frustrated at not being able to understand and figure out how to make the 3d printer work i decided to take an on line IQ test...i wound up taking a few of them all with the same results....i have a very low IQ.... sigh well lat least now i know why i have so much trouble trying to do things and now its bed time dont know what i'll do tomarrow...maybe i should just sell or give away the 3 d printer and cnc machines ?

[Hawk]

Don't put much stock in those IQ tests, what they're testing really isn't piratical in everyday life. Computers and the software associated with them  can really test a person's patients, it only takes one small byte of info to be bad to ruin the whole process. I myself get extremely frustrated when dealing with computers and programs, why it has to be so darn difficult I'll never know, but that's why computer people have jobs...right?  Heck I can hardly understand my phone most of the time. I looked into the CNC stuff, way too much computer stuff which means way too much can go wrong unless you have a natural understanding of computers, I don't. That's why I stick to scroll saws, hand planes, table saws and the such. Simpler is better.

I find when I get to the point where you are with the tech, I take a step back, scroll something I enjoy, make fancy firewood, for me hand planning the edge of a board helps, nothing better than a nice sharp hand plane and a  long, thin curl of maple to make you feel good. 

Stay strong and remember your family here on SSV, we're for you....

Chris

 

[Charlie E]

Sorry for your troubles. I know nothing about computers and stay away from high tech stuff. It's a shame it's so easy to get impatient with those we love. I'm guilty.