AAAARRRRRRRR RRRRRRR HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! %$#!@*&%$!#@!!!!

[Ava]

I'm so mad right now I could spit nails! GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!

So i'm writing up a loooong essay for school - a writing final paper of sorts. I've got nine pages written and suddently the power goes out, the power ONLY in my room goes out. I had saved the essay two pages before so I have seven pages saved but I have spent the last three hours working on this only to lose part of it! I am sooooooooo freaking mad right now. I'm having to take a break for writing or else the second half of the paper would be an extremely angry angry essay, lol.

[Rabrrrrrr]

1. Doesn't your word processor automatically save every now and again?

Even if you never changed the default setting, it should be autosaving and making backups at least every hour, probably sooner.

I set all mine to autosave and make backups every two minutes. Plus, pretty much any time I stop typing to pause or think or anything, I hit ctrl-s.

I learned the hard way, way back in the day before Microsoft, to safeguard my work. Among the many things I lost to power outages, system failures, or computer lockup, I lost about 20-25 pages of my senior thesis one night after going six or seven hours without a save and then locking up the computer...

Bummers to you - I know the feeling.

[Ava]

4. nope, it doesn't

i need to look into setting that. GRRRR!

[Guava Jelly]

2. dudette!!!

I'm sorry :(
Lets blame this guy
He should have programmed a safeguard

[Ava]

6. actually i'm not using microsoft word

i refuse to you microsoft word because it always crashes. i'm using "open office writer" which is just about as glitchy at times.

argg!!

[RandomKoolzip]

3. Do you own a gun?

Elvis would have handled this differently.

[Ava]

8. no i do not, and right now it is a good thing

and it also a good thing that my windows are hard to open or else my computer would be on the first floor right now in many pieces

[derby378]

41. If you did own a gun, I could suggest some stress relief targets...

Copies of The Turner Diaries, issues of The Washington Times, videotapes of Jerry Falwell blaming secular humanists and lesbians for 9/11 - you get the idea.

:hi:

[Ava]

43. guns scare me

i seriously would be scared that i would accidentally hurt someone and become paranoid if i owned a gun. i'm just fine with my taser :rofl: ;)

[graywarrior]

5. This is a great opportunity to act like the adults on DU and use the F word.

[Ava]

10. yeah, but mom could be reading

:rofl: jk

:hide:

[graywarrior]

14. Deny.

Deny deny deny.

[Ava]

18. i don't know what you are talking about. really!

:P

[graywarrior]

19. Think I do?

Apparently, I have gone over the edge.

[Ava]

22. you already were over the edge you nut!

so where does that put you now? :P

[graywarrior]

32. Off the wall. Nuttier than a fruitcake. The lights are on but no one is home.

It's endless, really.

[Ava]

33. aha - the list goes on i see

:rofl:

[graywarrior]

39. I own the list.

[Ava]

42. you are the list!

:rofl:

[Aristus]

7. I got the vague impression you were upset, Ava.

Hang in there. B-)

[Ava]

11. wonder how you could have gotten that impression, lol

thanks

[lost-in-nj]

9. Sorry, Sorry , Sorry

:hug: :hug:


lost

[Ava]

12. thanks

gah!!!!!

[Xipe Totec]

13. One word, dudette,

UPS.

I know it's too late for this one, but there will be another one.

Buy yourself some peace of mind.

[Ava]

16. UPS?

i'm lost now :shrug:

[Xipe Totec]

20. Uninterruptible Power Supply

Sorry, I thought you were a geek like me.

I've lost power so many times, I got me one. Now if I have a power loss, I have 30 minutes to finish what I'm working on and shut down gracefully.

You can get one for about $100 bucks or less...

:hi:

[Ava]

21. i'm a geek who doesn't keep up with the abbreviation slang lol

now that is something i seriously should look into!

[ghostsofgiants]

23. Uninterruptable power supply.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uninterruptible_power_supply

[Ava]

25. ha! he beat you to it

sorry, i'm taking my anger out on random people :rofl:

[ghostsofgiants]

27. Haha, I know the feeling.

I've had that happen before as well.

[Ava]

28. I'm too ticked off to write now

:rofl: I was so on a roll too! I had written nine pages none stop this afternoon in addtion to the four pages I wrote yesterday and then i lose all but seven of the pages that I wrote today. AGH! Two more pages i have to write in addition to what i already had left. This sucks!

[MonkeyFunk]

15. you kids

and your electrical stuff.

Back in my day, when the power went out, the clay tablets were unscathed.

[Ava]

17. yeah yeah yeah

:P don't make me throw my electrical stuff at you! :rofl:

[MonkeyFunk]

29. Whippersnapper.

edit: My eyes are so bad, I can't even type "whippersnapper" right. sigh...

[Ava]

34. now that's a word i've never heard said before

i've seen it written online before, but never heard anyone actually say it! it must be a yankee word :P ;)

[MonkeyFunk]

40. Don't get sassy

[Ava]

44. i'm a chick - sassy comes by nature

:P ;)

[Elidor]

24. I save files almost as often as I breathe

About every 10-15 seconds. This comes from the bad old days of working in Quark XPress on a Windows 3.11 machine. (It crashed frequently, and I've never gotten over the habit of hitting control-S every few seconds.)

Sorry you lost your work. Save often.

[Ava]

26. i usually do too

but i got on a roll and sort of got sidetracked and completely into my writing and lost track of all other things. agh!

[BarenakedLady]

30. Yikes

That sucks.

:hug:

[Ava]

35. yes, yes it does

[ncrainbowgrrl]

31. "save" is your friend. Best friend.

Bestest friend ever.

Repeat those words ad nauseum.

Now follow own advice.

:hi:

Sorry to hear about the loss! I know how much that bites!

[Ava]

37. quite a few people on this thread have said that

and it's frustrating to hear because i'm not a ditz, i know that i should save my work. that advice really isn't much advice at all, lol. now the UPS thing is something i definitely should look into! whenever you get in the zone though and start writing sometimes you never stop to think to save because you are sidetracked with the writing.

*sigh*

[Left Is Write]

36. I completely understand your frustration!

Perhaps the typewriters of my high school days weren't so bad after all...

I hope you can recover what you wrote.

[Ava]

38. thanks

i tried recovering what i wrote and it didn't work. i'll just have to re-write it all. gah!