Pride and competence

Some of my favorite presents are the songs Bestest records and sends to my phone. They are played on his guitar and sung by his voice, so this is legal, but try telling my computer that. I always lose these songs when I change phones, and . . . I only know how to save them as voice memos on my newest phone.

I tried the helpless act, but no one I know could, or would, burn a CD of these songs for me. I thought I was going to have to go to voice memos and play each one separately for the rest of my life, or until I got a new phone and lost them again.

Bestest mentioned that he was able to email voice memos from his phone and voila, I figured out how to do that too! I even downloaded the songs from the emails to my computer!

Then I had to find out where my computer hid these downloads. Once I found them I tried to move them to my music program, but my computer prefers professional music and I had to beat it with my cursor to get it to accept these songs!

I won.

Next, I tried to put it on a list. That sounds intuitive. It was not.

I ended up with three lists, none of them complete and none of them willing to be deleted, or altered. At one point I had five copies of every song except Silent Night on one list. Evidently my computer does not like Silent Night. 

It refused to move it. It changed its location so it played under another name as a copy. It erased all of the songs on my list (several times) and then, for some reason I may never know, I had a list with all my Christmas songs on it that I can play from my big computer's start screen!

The job is done!  I may never be able to add another song (or I might. I just never know, I think it depends on how docile the computer is on any given day,) so it isn't exactly competence, but I am proud!

I keep going back to look and see if they are still there!

So far so good.