From The "There Has To Be A Better Way" File....

Problem:  I want to upload photos from my iphone to post on my blog. 

Given:  3 computer type devices, 1 facebook account, 2 email accounts, 1 picasa account, 1 blog account, several misc computer programs, 2 3 4 cups of coffee, 6 stale  donuts.

Known:  I need the photos on picasa to load them to the blog, because blogger will not read the photos from my devices.  The iPHONE is handy to take photos with.  The iPHONE cannot transfer photos, that I know of, straight to picasa.  The iPAD will transfer photos easily to picasa.  However, the iPAD is not great at blogger--if the post is too long (ahem) then it will not show me the bottom of the post and I have to type blind.  The LAPTOP works excellently with blogger in terms of posting ….as long as the photos are already in picasa albums.  The LAPTOP will not upload photos.

Method:

1)Take photos with Iphone.

2) Realize that picasa does not upload well from iphone.

3)Upload photos to LAPTOP.

4)Realize that Internet explorer, for some reason, has enough connectivity to the internet to go to just about any page, even in picasa, unless I click "Upload photos"--then it says it can't. 

5)Try several times just in case something suddenly starts working.

6)Nothing does.  Temper starts to simmer, BUT I manage to stave it off.  I am intelligent, I can figure this out.

7)Go through the steps that the page offers for checking security settings, confident it will work (I mean, I am doing actual IT stuff) and feeling like a brilliant boss IT specialist ("Hello, this is Stephanie....how may i help you with your computer today?").

8)It fails.

9)Sigh and reset all the brilliant IT specialist stuff back to original settings before TWS realizes I have left my lane.  Pray I did not mess up something by clicking and unclicking three security boxes.

10)Get an idea that, perhaps, I can save the photos off of the computer's drive to a yahoo email account in "drafts", THEN use my iPAD (3rd device)

11)Set up two full yahoo emails of photos in drafts.  Congratulate myself on a fairly elegant solution to a problem that never should have existed.

12)Grab iPAD, open yahoo... (Wait, I REALLY need a donut).

13)Go to the kitchen and recount the same 6 donuts that I counted about 20 minutes ago.  Convince myself, in an incredibly saintly moment of momhood, that I should probably save the last donuts for TWS and Sooperman.  I am amazing.  And still hungry.

14)Open the draft yahoo emails on my iPAD, and hold my finger down on a photo in the email.  On ANY OTHER PHOTO ON THE INTERNET, this would make my iPAD say “Oh GREAT photo!  Let’s save this one to camera roll!”.  Not this time.  I can import photos to the draft email, but cannot save photos from the draft email to my iPAD camera roll.

15)BUT I can select all photos and “copy” them…now to find somewhere to paste….

15)Sigh.  Wonder if this is actually sort of a God thing for me NOT to post the photos of us installing a well.   Hmmm…just in case it is just a spiritual attack and actually these well photos will be the key to some incredible discovery, I plow on.

16)Try to copy photos to facebook.  Kinda hope it does not work because I don't want everyone to see the awesomeness that I want to post on my blog.

17)Oh good, it failed.  (Realized that I did want it to work...now I need to come up with another idea).

18)Decide to send these photos to my ATT email (email account number 2).

19)Try to log into my att account on my ipad, which currently has my yahoo account on it.  Lament the fact that att and yahoo are close enough to force me to log off of one to log onto another, but not close enough for them to both come through the same email account.  Silently gripe about this, for the billionth time, in my head.

20)Att account won’t open.  I consider "percussive maintenance" on all three machines.

21)After numerous attempts, att account DOES open, and I can see my emails, including the two with my precious photos on them.  Try to click to open them (they are underlined in blue in their own pane), but instead a glitch keeps opening a JCPenny ad.

22)Finally get my att emails open and see the pics!  Press on a pic and am very graciously offered the opportunity to save them.  Hopefully to my camera roll.  Check.  YES!  Success!  Feeling like a world class hacker at this point.  Hacking.  Like a BOSS, I tell ya.

23)In my earnestness to gripe…um…share my tribulations, start typing this list on facebook.  The post actually starts BOGGING DOWN as a type, and I realize fb does not share my enthusiasm for diatribes.  Switch to MSWORD.

24)TWS knocks on the window.  I look up and we have company.  I am in my nightgown, no make up, hair looking like I styled it with a Cuisinart.  Run back and make myself presentable. Realize I do not have time to use the restroom before going out to say hello, and hope it is a short visit.  Make a pass through the living room just in case he comes through, and see socks and other detrius all over.  Pick up socks, throw blanket halfheartedly over the huge pile of laundry on the couch from last night and realize that that does not fool anyone. Go OUTSIDE to talk to our neighbor/furniture guy and get the name of a farmer who might want to plant on our land.

25)Neighbor gone, come back to the list.  Realize that I never actually tried to upload the photos to picasa from my ipad, so this whole thing still might not work.  Sigh.

26)Realize this is an AWFUL lot of trouble to post a photo of poison ivy.

 

27)Decide I have earned one stale donut.