Wednesday, May 6, 2015
last report on the mission
I am sad that I have to quit writing online. The thing is, I do not know who is reading this blog and how my input is being interpreted. If you wish to receive more information on what I am doing on this mission, I will be writing each week, but keeping the notes here at home. I can send them to you via email just so that you do not miss out no the adventures. Please let me know if you wish to be on the email list.
Saturday, May 2, 2015
thankful for Tech support
I guess the computer age is wondrous to be sure but when it does not work, I am left to wonder!
I spent 2 hours yesterday with two very smart tech savvy people trying to get my computer to co-operate and not make me wonder if we got taken by the store by paying such a large amount to purchase in the first place............
Found that somehow my email had been turned off and google insists that I put in a password. Well I searched my mind (jumbled though it might appear to be) to try to recover the errant password to no avail. Just have to be happy with the little pop up screen that demands that I enter a password. Today does not look good and tomorrow not much better in that regard.
My mentor seems to have gone away. I need further training for this mission but I cannot get him to contact me so I decided to take matters into my own hands, and the upshot is that I have received an extra assignment do to a number of indexing batches and next week I will be trained by a new person in the art of arbitration. There is a big push on right now to get the arbitration done and for a week that is the concentration. I will be too late for this particular session, but I am sure there will be many more concentrated efforts to clear up the backlog of arbitration waiting. An explanation of the arbitration process is in order. Each record that is in Family Search has to be entered during the process called indexing. Each record is independently indexed by two people and then the results are compared. Differences in the indexed records are then arbitrated. The person doing the arbitration is the last word and then the record is released to the public on Family Search. I have been doing quite a few of these indexing batches and each batch has its own set of instructions on how to get it done. The writing leaves a lot to be desired so it is anybody's guess what was really written in some cases.
It gets rather hard to sit at the computer for hours on end doing indexing, so I get up and go for a walk, go water my flowers, inspect the burgeoning crop of peaches and nectarines (that did not get frozen this year ), fill the bird feeder and chat with my neighbor.
I am part of the Millefiore Quilt Along project run by a lady in British Columbia, Canada. A new rosette is presented each month and I have now finished 5 rosettes. I have arranged for the paper pieces for the quilt along to be sent to me rather than cut them myself and then stitch them. The paper pieces came around 27th April and so I looked closely at the picture and decided that I could do this one without waiting for the instructions to appear in my inbox. After all, it is a puzzle and a geometric one at that, so I got to work and finished the center pieced hexagon and discovered that it was larger than it should have been and that the next round of 6 pieced hexagons would not fit. I sent an email to the designer pointing out that there was an error. I also put a note on the Facebook page dealing with this Quilt along project. The designer questioned my complaint. Another person on the Facebook page sent a long (upbraiding) story about having to read the instructions first and not go ahead and do it wrong etc.etc.etc. In a day or so, there appeared an apology from the designer - she had in fact, sent the wrong instructions to the people who put the paper piece kits together and I had uncovered her error. I felt vindicated to say the least. The people who put the kits together have rectified the error and many of the participants in this project were saved a lot of headaches. So how did I rectify my center hexagon? Well, I sliced off the offending pieces and now it fits and looks good. Old Aussie ingenuity takes over!
I spent 2 hours yesterday with two very smart tech savvy people trying to get my computer to co-operate and not make me wonder if we got taken by the store by paying such a large amount to purchase in the first place............
Found that somehow my email had been turned off and google insists that I put in a password. Well I searched my mind (jumbled though it might appear to be) to try to recover the errant password to no avail. Just have to be happy with the little pop up screen that demands that I enter a password. Today does not look good and tomorrow not much better in that regard.
My mentor seems to have gone away. I need further training for this mission but I cannot get him to contact me so I decided to take matters into my own hands, and the upshot is that I have received an extra assignment do to a number of indexing batches and next week I will be trained by a new person in the art of arbitration. There is a big push on right now to get the arbitration done and for a week that is the concentration. I will be too late for this particular session, but I am sure there will be many more concentrated efforts to clear up the backlog of arbitration waiting. An explanation of the arbitration process is in order. Each record that is in Family Search has to be entered during the process called indexing. Each record is independently indexed by two people and then the results are compared. Differences in the indexed records are then arbitrated. The person doing the arbitration is the last word and then the record is released to the public on Family Search. I have been doing quite a few of these indexing batches and each batch has its own set of instructions on how to get it done. The writing leaves a lot to be desired so it is anybody's guess what was really written in some cases.
It gets rather hard to sit at the computer for hours on end doing indexing, so I get up and go for a walk, go water my flowers, inspect the burgeoning crop of peaches and nectarines (that did not get frozen this year ), fill the bird feeder and chat with my neighbor.
I am part of the Millefiore Quilt Along project run by a lady in British Columbia, Canada. A new rosette is presented each month and I have now finished 5 rosettes. I have arranged for the paper pieces for the quilt along to be sent to me rather than cut them myself and then stitch them. The paper pieces came around 27th April and so I looked closely at the picture and decided that I could do this one without waiting for the instructions to appear in my inbox. After all, it is a puzzle and a geometric one at that, so I got to work and finished the center pieced hexagon and discovered that it was larger than it should have been and that the next round of 6 pieced hexagons would not fit. I sent an email to the designer pointing out that there was an error. I also put a note on the Facebook page dealing with this Quilt along project. The designer questioned my complaint. Another person on the Facebook page sent a long (upbraiding) story about having to read the instructions first and not go ahead and do it wrong etc.etc.etc. In a day or so, there appeared an apology from the designer - she had in fact, sent the wrong instructions to the people who put the paper piece kits together and I had uncovered her error. I felt vindicated to say the least. The people who put the kits together have rectified the error and many of the participants in this project were saved a lot of headaches. So how did I rectify my center hexagon? Well, I sliced off the offending pieces and now it fits and looks good. Old Aussie ingenuity takes over!
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