I have an older Canon electronic camera that I bought at a yard sale in Missoula last year for $5. It has a chip that does not fit either my notebook or Greg's. My old tower at home, also does not have a place for this particular chip. For the past year or so I have downloaded to the laptop, which has a spot for the chip, then transfer to my tower with a USB cable. Very cumbersome.
Here in Italy there is free internet at coffee shops but no internet cafes with towers that you can rent by the minute, (which is common in Mexico and other countries we visit). I have no way of moving the photos on the camera to the notebook so I can share them on the blog or in emails. Taking the camera out on a day trip is far easier than the notebook. Were it stolen, I would only be out $5 instead of $200 or so.
What is the Shakespeare expression: mystery acquaints a man wth strange bedfellows. We went to the Grande Magliore, which is a department store. (Anyone who knows Greg and I know that we spend almost no time in such vast places!)
Department stores here are smaller. The range and quality of goods is less at the same time as more people are employed to assist you. With my almost non existent Italian, I showed the guy in the electronic's section my camera and my notebook. I motioned that neither the chip nor the plug in from the camera fit the notebook. He nodded and said, "Yes," in English. "OTG. Ask my colleague, is that what you call in English?" When we said yes, he pointed to another man and said, "Ask my colleague for an OTG."
All right! Now I can transfer pictures and I can do it at home as well. No more misery.
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