I had an entire entry up and hit one key - I don't even know what the hell I hit - and I lost it.
Must walk away now or something will be broken.
I'll be back on Tuesday with thougts on climbing Mt Hood in the winter, a fascinating woman scientist and books I read and loved this year. Also a bit on Bradbury.
Now I will practice zen breathing and finding inner peace.
Happy Holidays.......it might be politically correct, but it's true!
Yes, but the trouble is that the main charm of blogging is its instantness--it is true I lost way too many posts on Blogger before starting the habit of copying the whole text just before I posted (I've given up again now that I'm finding Blogger Beta so reliable, unless I've done something with a million links that I know I will be too impatient to reproduce)--but I find it takes all the pleasure out of the practice to write posts in a separate editor.
In any case, Colleen, my sincere condolences!
When I am honest with myself, I know I could have just saved the post as unpublished at the halfway point or so and thus only lost part of it - but I don't want to be honest with myself.
I want to flip out and scream!! Ha!
I'll just write it all better for next week, I know, but at the time (which was like 1AM) I was a very angry person. Computers seem like magic sometimes - why can't they act like magic - good magic! ha!
Hey there Colleen. It's your stepsister writing under the name I usually use, and writing on your stepdad's computer. You might be hearing from him (but it is unlikely, knowing his computer literacy rate!). I did download IMs for MSN and Yahoo to his desktop but I haven't to your mother's...y'all talk often enough that you probably don't need it. ha ha
Thanks for the card. I didn't send out ANY this year. Happy Christmas to you and yours (I hear the little one really couldn't care less about the holiday...HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!).
Colleen Mondor is a reviewer for Booklist, Bookslut, Eclectica Magazine and the Voices of New Orleans. I also write fiction and listen to great music. This site is all about the literary world and my place within it.
December 23
2006
06:23 AM
Colleen,
I feel your pain. Not that this helps now but composing anything longer than a sentence or two in Textedit (or whatever), saving in an "articles" collection folder, and copy and pasting into Movable Type saves many a headache.
C