Saturday, March 07, 2009

Jilted By A Fond Lover



Thank you all for your wonderful comments on my previous post, but this particular article just digs in my craw. Not because I didn't have a wonderful evening, I had a grand time. No, the reason is that there was a lot more to the story and it took me two evenings to write it up. I labored long and hard to gift you with the screwball tale of our evening.

I sat the second night in front of the keyboard for three hours (I am a slow typist and an even slower thinker) and composed one of the best things I had ever written. It was weird, it was funny, and had all the charm of a fur-lined jockstrap. I even checked to make sure that everything was spelled right for the love of Mike! It was perfect!

I published it and put it out there for all the world to see with a deep and glowing sense of pride! But as I was rereading it for the umpteenth time, I noticed there was a comma missing where there should have been one. No problem. I went back to the compose screen, added the comma and published it again.

I go back to my blog to finish rereading my article and 90% OF IT IS GONE! THREE HOURS OF WORK, GONE! LOST! NEVER TO BE FOUND AGAIN! I had saved what I had written but all that was there was what I had written the first night and all of the good stuff was lost to internet ether. FUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCKKKK!

I almost cried, and I just didn't have it in me to rewrite the whole thing.

Fuckin' blogger. If it wasn't free, I'd ask for my money back.

Doc

6 comments:

  1. Your voice is great, so do a video blog of telling us a tale sometime. I bet you would be great at that!

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  2. That's happened to me before. More than once. You'd think that I'd figure out to type shit up in Word, save, and then publish, but nooooo. I'm still an idiot. Cheers.

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  3. Well, at least you got the comma in before it vaporized. Where ever it's at, at least it's grammatically correct.

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  4. I wish I could blame blogger for my writing going missing, I blame my brain instead.

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  5. I've learned the hard way to press "save post" about 20 times a minute.

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  6. Im with SkylersDad...do a video blog. Doubledogdareya


    peace
    #2

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