My Camera is Like My Brain

I brought my good camera with me that has a view finder since I have trouble seeing what I'm taking pictures of using those screens on the new ones and on my phone.  When I got it out yesterday to check the batteries before we left for our hike, I discovered it had no memory card in it.  I put the one from my little point and shoot in it and all I got was a message "Unable to Read Memory Card"   Hmmm.   So, yesterday I used the small camera and my phone for those pictures we took.  Today we went to the base exchange and bought a 16GB memory card (the smallest I could find).  Figured that ought to cover me for a long time!  Well, I put it in and got that same message.  I tried everything - reformatting, cursing, and getting my  neck muscles all in a knot trying to figure out what to do.   I gave up and put it back in it's package.  After a half-hour walk with Maggie to decompress I started doing some "Google" searching for the camera model and compatible discs.  Well, it seems that my camera is old enough (like my brain) that it will only hold so much memory, and it will only work with a 2GB memory card.  I was feeling a kinship with it after I found that out - just so much data one can expect to retain in one's old age - be it camera or brain!!  

About the same time as I was wrestling with that problem I tried to help Roger by  deleting stuff from his old iPod.  It's old enough that it hasn't been able to upgrade the operating system for the last four times an update has been available.  His battery life is dwindling faster all the time  (I mean the iPod's) and I thought, being fairly proficient with Apple products, I could remove apps, do some cleaning up of the memory and help him get more battery life.  He only wants to use it to listen to his audiobooks and music, so I went crazy deleting everything in sight!  It wanted to upgrade his Audible app, so I did.  He came in from working on replacing the door handle and turned the iPod on - oops.  No Audible.  Just kept crashing.   That's about the time I took the walk.  While I was gone, he took the app off the iPod and reloaded it through the iTunes store.  It works now, thank goodness!  So much for knowing what I am doing. 

As much as I walk most days, I was so surprised today to wake up with sore calf muscles from the hike in the deep sand yesterday!  Wow, it was more of a workout than I thought.  Roger says he felt some discomfort, too.  Maggie was a bit lazier today than usual so we must have tired her out as well.  I had to dump more red sand out of my shoes this morning for our walk.  Not sure where it had been hiding as I dumped a ton before we headed home.  I made the mistake of wearing a pair of hikers yesterday that have a mesh top (my feet get hot).  Yeah, well, that didn't work all that well in deep fine, silty, sand.  

We are about five miles down the road from the Las Vegas Speedway.  It's  huge and apparently one of the major NASCAR tracks in the country.   Well, last night and today it was quite obvious it was open for business.  Those cars racing around and around and around that track are almost as noisy as the airplanes from the base (which we expect living on an Air Force base). 

Tomorrow we will be here one week.  It has gone pretty fast.  We will celebrate by dusting, vacuuming and doing laundry!  It is supposed to be cooler and very windy, so it will be a good day to stay at home and get it done.