Thing 17 - Slideshare or Drive me crazy

I am writing this while I am waiting for my slide show to convert. finally! Okay, here is the story. Last fall, I made a slide show presentation using Power Point (on my husband's new computer complete with Vista - I hate Vista) and emailed it to my self to use at school. I thought I also put it on my old computer. Anyway, I had to download Powerpoint viewer to get it to play on my school's old computers, even though they have Powerpoint on them, it would not run the new version (which had to change the look so drastically it is hard to get used to). Well, after perserverance on my end, I got the power point to run and set it up outside the MRC so people walking by, changing classes could see it. (People at my school are not used to someone promoting the library.) I went and played parent and came back at the end of open house unsure if anyone even viewed it. But I didn't care, I had at least made the effort.
What does this have to do with this Thing? Well, I thought that this Thing, slideshare, might help me solve that problem for next Fall (if I can get an internet connection to where I have it set up, or use a wireless laptop, but I digress.)
So, I thought, why not load my already made presentation to the Slide show, then quick, just like that I could have my thing done. Okay, have I mentioned I am working on a fairly new computer (with Vista, which I hate) because it looks so different it is hard to tell where you are storing files sometimes (plus my old computer and my computers at school all use the old stuff, so that is familiar). Okay, back to the point. I browsed my new computer sure that that presentation was stored here from my transfered files, but no I couldn't find it. It probably took me fifteen minutes of searching before I remembered that I had did the presentation on my husband's computer and may not have saved it on the old one, let alone transfered it to the new one. So I screamed (and remember I am working in a public place.) But then, Eureka! I had emailed it to myself (have I mentioned I love email! It saves the day) I find the attachment download it carefully to my new computer (so I know where it is), see that I can view it (do I have powerpoint downloaded on my new computer? I didn't know). But I save it and go back to Slideshare, and hit the upload, and browse, and I CAN'T FIND IT!! I scream again. My new computer won't show me the file extension and I begin to worry that it's the "viewer" version so it won't upload. I try the two different ways to upload in Slideshare and still nothing. I rename the file, I move it, I resave it and suddenly it opens in an editable view in my computer. Apparently, I do have Powerpoint downloaded on this model (still the new version, yuck,) But "Cool" I think, I can make the updates I need to get it ready for next year and upload that, that would be more helpful anyway. So I spend ten minutes making those changes, save it (where I know it is at), and make sure the file extension is ppt. I go back to Slideshare and all I can find is the renamed, saved presentation from the second time I opened it from the email. I screamed again, but hit UPLOAD anyway, because while I am a procrastinator I also never surrender. So know, while I have been writing all of this, the Slideshare converter was supposed to be converting the wrong presentation. I am going to go check. I'll end this post and try the embed thing if I did get it uploaded and converted correctly.