Geek alert

I got a new Palm Pilot recently -- have you played the Lazy Daisy game -- addictive!

I need to get at least my floss entered on mine. How did you organize yours?

-- Jere

How in the world do you do that? I started having things on thinkDB2, but it doesn't seem to work anymore. I have my floss and charts on Excel. Tell me more!

Also, tell me more about Bejeweled2! I am a great fan of Bejeweled, and have it on my regular computer, and the Palm. I tend to play it a lot on the Palm during boring meetings!

Gillian

Cheryl Isaak wrote:

Tell me more, please - or will I regret asking

By brand - Six Strand Sweets, WDW, silks, Caron and GAST are individual Excel files. I have misc. file for others bits. Want me to send you one of them to see what I did?

Cheryl

I got a Tungsten E2 - both Bejewel2 and DocumentsToGo came with it. DTG lets you share an Excel or Word file on the Palm and hotsyncing lets you keep both copies the same. It is COOL! The entire 300+line file of my charts is on the Palm.

You should be able to play BJ2 on Popcap Games and download it from there if you like it. I bought myself RocketMania.

Cheryl

Find it on

- along with several other addictive timewasters! (Bookworm and Zuma are my favourites/downfall). Free versions or you can buy a de luxe version.

Pat P

Oh those two have really hooked me! I also like Chuzzle. Feeding Frenzy was fun, but once you use up your trial time, you can't play free.

-- Jere

timewasters!

Lazy Daisy is a silly little game, but you can play an endless game, which I just keep going on mine. It came with my Palm. You just match petal colors, and they fall off the flowers, and then you keep going, it keeps reflowering. Silly, mindless, addictive.

-- Jere

"Jere

Yeah, Pat i knew that. I have it on my real computer, and everytime I bring it up, it asks if I want to check for updates. I just hadn't done it. I checked with Jim this afternoon, and he said "Go for it". I am sometimes not too sure which programs are registered and kosher, and which are copies of his!

Tomorrow, I will do that. I play the speed game, and I need a good score in the morning to start my day off right ( after Spider and FreeCell).

Gill

I found Bejeweled 2 at Compusa on a disc for $19.95 and Luxor the same. I'm into Luxor and stuck on level 8.4. Boy are these things adictive. Clarice in AZ

I don't have a Pilot (or any other handhelds), I don't play computer games, and at boring meetings I just get on with my knitting, then at least I know SOMETHING gets accomplished at said meeting!

Olwyn Mary in New Orleans.

Hear, hear! I used to take a piece of XS at either the fill-in-the-last-color or backstitching stage, so I could concentrate on the discussion but still accomplish something.

Then we went from the president who rambled through three-hour meetings to the one who zipped through in an hour or less.

Oh - the handheld is supposed to be for other uses - share-able date book, lists of all sorts. I also knit, when I can't escape the meeting all together.

But those games are great on those nights when sleep seems impossible, my mind doesn't chew over things I can't change and I get to stay warm and toasty.

Cheryl

If you are using Excel, you can also put them all in one spreadsheet with different tabs. I haven't done this with my stash, but I have done it with other data. One of these days I really need to put my charts and kits on the Palm. I hate being in the store wondering if I've seen it before and thought about it or if I've already bought it.

--Charlene

I got away with stitching in class my senior year in high school (early

1980's). I was a straight-A student, and if I didn't have something to keep my hands occupied my mind wandered. I learned better that way. I think what I *really* needed was more challenging courses.

--Charlene

I used to knit in French - drove the teacher crazy, especially since I still answered the question correctly even if my accent was awful.

Cheryl

I discovered that trick in college. My favorite prof was about to become a father, and I was running out of time, so I brought my knitting to class. He objected. I said "but it's for your kid". He objected anyway. I recited the last paragraph of his lecture verbatim, which surprised the heck out of him, because I was well-known for my mind wandering when I was supposed to be taking notes, but here, I wasn't taking notes and was clearly paying rapt attention.

DBF took far better notes than I ever did, and we always studied from his notes, so there was no need for me to take notes.

I did make a point of bringing mindless knitting (the non-shaped part of socks, the endless rows of "work even" on a sweater) so that I could pay more attention to the lecture than to the pattern.

A few years ago, I took a class on Your Own Editing Business, and promised that if the teacher found my knitting distracting, I'd put it away, but doing something with my hands kept my mind where it belonged. Since I was asking intelligent questions, she realized I wasn't kidding. At lunch break, I turned the heel. By the end of the day, I had 1.5 socks (stopped when I got to the heel on the second sock). She was amazed at what I had accomplished while in class.

I haven't tried that feature of Excel; I find it distracting when I use other peoples files. One of my Cub Scout leaders did that - a file for every boy in the den with different columns and headings for each. DROVE ME BONKERS.

Cheryl

Depends on your data. I personally find it quicker and easier to have related data in one file; you find separate files easier. One advantage to the tabs is you can do calculations using the data from different tabs; something you can't do across separate files.

--Charlene