Friday 13th Jinx

       This past Friday the thirteenth was something else. My nephew asked me for a copy of the family coat-of-arms as he wants to build a violin with the coat in the front. I took the coat picture off the wall and realized it was too big for my scanner. So I took it into the den and used my digital camera to copy it. When I tried to get the computer to take the picture off the camera it wouldn't work. We recently got a new computer and although the program had transfered ok; it apparently is not compatible with this computer. So I took the copy and drove into town (about 8 miles away) and had a copy made at the local print shop. I had it reduced to 8 by 10 so it would fit the scanner. I got in the car and drove home. When I got out of the car...no print nor original. Holy Cow I must of placed the pictures on top of the car while I was unlocking the door and drove off scattering the pictures along the countryside. I immediately got back in the car and drove back to the print shop; I didn't see the pictures in the parking lot nor along the road going in. I went into the shop and asked if anyone had brought them in, perhaps. No luck. I went back out to the car and took it apart inside....no pictures. I drove home, Emailed my nephew the dumb stunt I'd pulled. Then I remembered the digital pictures I had taken, so I made another trip into town to see if anyone could pull them up for me. No luck... all the shops had some sort of different set up. Totally frustrated I came home, by this time my wife was home from work and I lamented my woes to her. She assured me that I was simply a computeridiot and she would save the day by bringing up the pictures off the digital camera. I guess she just proved that we are both computeridiots. In the meantime my nephew tried to find the family coat on line. He found several, but not unfortunately the one in direct line for our family. I told him that as long as I had it on the digital camera there was always the possibility of it being saved.Saturday morning I went out to the car to drive to the post office and there laid the original coat of arms and copy, in plain sight for anyone to see. No further comment.