They do. I tell you, there is no other way to explain what just happened to me. There is nothing you can tell me - not even that it is my fault - that will make me feel any differently.
I have been writing a grant application in Power Point (yes, one of those &%#()@ grant applications that suck the ever living life out of you) all week. I emailed it home to myself tonight because I had to leave work to go to Jim's grandpa's 93rd birthday. I knew I could sneak home early and work on it. So I opened it, (yes here it comes), and I worked on it. I even hit save ever so often, (ok, obsessively), and hit print preview every time I finished a slide to see how wonderfully amazing I was.
And I have been working on it for just over 3 1/2 hours.
I decided I had done enough tonight to have me in a good place to finish up and tweak tomorrow when I am wide awake.
So I opened Outlook Express. I started an email to myself. I selected "attach a file".
...and just like that, it was gone. (what is "that" like that I say "just like that"?)
poof.
adios.
cianara. (I dont even care that I spelled that wrong)
Apparently my amazing skills and talents were so overwhelmingly blinding that I neglected to just once, one time, one second of thought, hit SAVE AS when I was working on my application.
...and just like that, it was gone.
I have searched high and low. Hither and yon. I cannot find the masterpiece.
If there is a computer geek out there that feels like rescuing this damzel in distress, I would welcome your help. But I am sure as the ache in my head that it is gone. Like a figment of my imagination, gone - never was there to begin with.
I am bringing my laptop to work tomorrow in the hopes that I either can shake the document out, or that someone will trip me on the sidewalk causing me to fall flat on my face as I watch my lifeline (laptop - keep up with me people) fly through the air into oncoming traffic (wishful thinking in a town of 5,000), get bounced off the tires of a large diesel, launch a block away onto the railroad tracks where the highspeed locomotive that comes through town every morning at 8:30 will slam on its brakes to avoid said lifeline only to stop just short. Either way, I will exact my revenge on this computer that is obsessed with the devil Microsoft.
Hi Lori
ReplyDeleteSo HERE you are?
Kez
Don't you just love technology!?
ReplyDeleteI hope you found it intact. :)
I know when I have lost things in the past on the computer, my husband has essentially reversed time and was able to go in somehow to another day (or the day in question), and retrieve what I had saved (assuming I had saved as, which I do forget to do, or assume I do), but what that process is called, I don't know!
ReplyDeleteI wish you luck!
Hey Kez!
ReplyDeleteJess & Fadkog, I tried everything. I even took it to my board member who builds computer systems and he said it was gone. Because I was working in Outlook Express, it doesnt save in History like some other programs do. I hate Microsoft! Needless to say in 8 hours in the office I didnt get accomplished what I did in 4 hours at home last night.