Hopefully this isn't an omen for the new work year:

1. Wake up 90 minutes late because, even though I know I turned on the alarm last night, it was not turned on this morning.

2. Discover that my Treo is hung and won't respond or restart. Determine, after 20-odd minutes of fiddling, that I have to do a hard restart.

3. Discover, when I arrive at the office, that I didn't bring my charger cable for my phone, which is near dead.

4. Discover that, no, I never really did get around to getting BackupBuddy installed on my Treo after I got it, so I am subject to the vagueries of resyncing stuff and hoping it all gets put in place.

Fortunately, countervening some of that, at most I've only "lost" a week's worth of non-work changes on the Treo (since I synced before I left the office last week), and any of the pictures I snapped I was able to migrate off to the SD card.

And, on the bright side, the commute in this morning was only 60, not 90, minutes. Even if I should really, therefore, stay late tonight.

*sigh*

UPDATE: Restore of the Treo *seems* to have gone okay.

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Quoth retracted ...

So were you a Palm user before Treo? I have a Sony Palm handheld that I am hoping will hold up for a few more years; I have gotten very used to it and don't want to have to re-learn how to use a non-Palm device once Palms have died and "all-in-one" phones have taken over.

Quoth ***Dave ...

Been a Palm user many (?) years, starting with my beloved Palm V. No desire for a different PDA platform, and one of the things that, to me, was so attractive about the Treo.

Quoth ***Dave ...

Lordy, lordy, spent most of the day battling against an Outlook calendar full of the cruft of several years of syncing against multiple Palm devices, transfers to new machines, etc. I couldn't get a full sync -- I couldn't even get a push-from-Outlook-to-Palm sync -- to run to completion, and it thrashed the PCs memory, trashed the Outlook session, and forced me to reboot repeatedly.

A review of my calendar going back to '02-'03 showed cases where individual appointments were duplicated three, four, five times. Worse, a bunch of the "all day/free" appointments (e.g., "Christmas") has gotten split into 1 a.m.-Midnight + Midnight-1 a.m. duets across two days, or morphed into Midnight-7 a.m. intervals. And then duplicated. Yikes.

And, for some reason, my attempts to archive stuff out from earlier than 7/05 were unsuccessful.

Finally went in for about three hours tonight, pulled up an Outlook view that showed everything in the calendar in a tabular format, deleted a whole bunch of dupes, fixed the holidays for 2006, trashed the rest of the holidays, and came up with a clean calendar I could push, then sync.

All is, for the moment, right with the world.