Why is technology so complicated

 So this week I discovered that my hard drive was about to die and only had 4% health left.  It doesn't seem that long agao that my other hard drive on the PC died and I struggled through a long replacement learning curve, so I wasn't doing that again.  The PC wasn't suitable for upgrading to Windows 11 anyway.  So I did some research (using my laptop instead) into what are considered current minimum specs and tried to buy something with some futureproofing elements.  I got a Dell XPS 8960 which arrived promptly the next day.  Cue three hours of trying to get the data off the old sick PC using the completely useless Dell Migrate tool before giving up and just copying over the most recent backup files.  Then more hours of recovering non-backed-up files off the sick PC, and working out what applications needed reinstalling blah blah blah.  Trying to work out what the connectors are on my old monitor and the even older second monitor so I could buy adapters to fit the new PC (VGA and DVI-D as it turns out).  Crawling around under my desk unplugging and replugging in peripherals as I switched between the sick and the new PCS.  The long and short of it is that I've wasted most of my time and brain power this week on technology so not so much crafting.  It's also made me realise that in another 10 years or so I probably wouldn't be able to manage the transition to a new PC, and I will become one of those older people reliant on their children to make the technology work.

I've loaded another quilt onto the frame and started stabilising it with stitch in the ditch.  This is the kit I bought in Paducah with the embroidered panels that I stitched while travelling in Japan last year.  I also embroidered the 'rims' onto the Japanese cups wallhanging and sewed a hanging sleeve onto it in preparation for binding.  I sewed binding onto the Australian BOM quilt. 

I've been working on my dollshouse. I've started a new cross stitch kit for a christmas ornament that came in CrossStitcher magazine.  I have tried and failed twice to get gauge for a knitted hat pattern called the Christmas Kep - I've sent off for some smaller diameter circular needles to try again.

DS came home for the weekend and encouraged me to try one of his video games: Baldur's Gate 3, which has a DnD style turn-based combat which after Elden Ring feels to me like watching paint dry, but he says it has a good story line.

I hope your technology is working better than mine has the last few weeks.