Casa De Morrill

I like to pride myself on the fact that I lead a pretty organized life. I try not to be anal about being organized (Sean helps a lot with that), but at the same time, I like to be able to know what’s going on. So, three birthdays ago, my parents bought me a Handspring Visor. It’s been the best damn thing I think they’ve ever bought me. It’s held up to me dropping it on the ground several times (although I now have hairline cracks running around a lot of the case). I depend on it to get me through each semester at school as well as keep all of the addresses and phone numbers of people in my life and other random bits of information that are pertinent to having on me most of the time.

For all of the above reasons that I love having my handheld, I felt it reasonable to panic yesterday afternoon when I went to turn on my handheld. It wouldn’t turn on. I told myself to breathe, get new batteries, it must just be really low on batteries. Changed the batteries. Sure enough, it came back on after that. Unfortunately, coming back on is not necessarily equivalent to coming back on with all of my information still stored on it. I got the first one, not the second. Nrgh!

So, when Sean and I headed out yesterday to run a few errands, we ran by the office where I keep my handheld backed up onto my computer for times just like this. I log onto my system, stick my handheld into the cradle and press the sync button. My handheld attempts to connect, as always, but my computer just sits there. Damnit. After messing around with it for a little bit longer, Sean concludes that I’m going to have to reinstall the software before it will work. I don’t have the CD at the office, though. It’s sitting in my CD case at home. Slightly panic stricken that I’m about to lose my second brain, I tuck my handheld away in a desk drawer (it’s rather useless to carry it around when it doesn’t have any information stored on it), and Sean and I go on our merry (well, mine wasn’t so merry without my handheld) way for the rest of the day.

I got home last night and made sure that I tucked the Handspring CD away in my purse so that it would come with me when I went to work the next day. I got to work this morning, tried syncing once more, to make sure I wasn’t hallucinating yesterday. At least in this matter, I wasn’t. Uninstalled the software, reinstalled it. Thankfully, the database of user information is saved even when you uninstall the software. I placed my handheld in the cradle again, pressed the sync button. The blissful little window popped up on my computer indicating that it was connecting with my handheld and restoring my databases. Yippee! My second brain is back!

So, the end of the story is that my handheld is thankfully back in working order with nothing missing off of it. I can now return to having my brain back and begin to dump this next semester’s school schedule onto it.