A Living Magazine - Day 106 - Lost Essay

This was just another day of writing. Whenever I have two posts to do on one day, there leaves little time for exploration. In this case, there is also the time spent walking from Wi-fi hotspot to hotspot to account for, which is usually the same everyday. So, just getting caught up on posts can mean sacrificing adventure for the next day's post...

The walk along Route 9 to the library.

Large apples, just out of reach.

Green to red.

Something I don't see often. A millipede.

All hail diplopodology!

I think this is a hawk or owl feather (any help?). It is 12 inches long.

These are all over town. I like that they are actually

showing the results of a very successful form of recycling.

Both sides of a rose's life.

The hips are quite edible and taste like apples.

Here are some rather unfortunate crabapples, infested with cedar-apple rust...

Gymnosporangium juniperi-virginianae is a plant pathogen that causes cedar-apple rust. In virtually any location where apples or crabapples (Malus) and Eastern red-cedar (Juniperus virginiana) coexist, cedar apple rust can be a destructive or disfiguring disease on both the apples and cedars. Quince and hawthorn can substitute for the apples as hosts and many species of juniper can substitute for the Eastern red cedars.

Source: Wikipedia

These would NOT make a tasty jam.

When I got to this point in the post you are now reading, I wrote one of the best and most carefully-written essays I've done in a long time. I went over it again and again, tweaking, and perfecting it. I was quite happy with what I'd written. I'd come up with novel points and sewed them together so clearly.

Then...

I cut the text out to move it down slightly. In between trying to find the right place to paste it, I accidentally copied a url to use in a link. I realized immediately that I had just replaced the essay on my computer's clipboard with the link. But, when I went to click "undo" (which would normally give me back the text in the blog's editing field), Blogger autosaved the blank page and the entire essay was lost irretrievably.

This is the second time that has happened. I am beyond distraught. I'd worked all day for absolutely nothing. Yes, some might say it was valuable lesson. But it wasn't. I'd already learned the lesson once before. I cannot easily do blog posts in Word and then transfer them into the blog, because pictures need to be up loaded, and then I cue off those to structure the wording. So, to save time I compose live, with the autosave feature running. It can not be turned off, nor have its frequency lowered--thank you NOT, Blogger.

I scoured the web for recovery methods. Nothing in the forums except for dozens of poor, crushed souls like myself, commiserating about this common disaster. The best thing I could find was a free application called, Clipdiary, which keeps a history of your cuts and copies. If I had had this program, I would not have lost 6 hours worth of intense work. I encourage people who write with autosave features to download this valuable asset.

I haven't even faced just how angry I am at myself and this buggy Blogger yet. I will deal with that after the post is published.

There will be no other work done on this day's post. It is not worth the time to try and rewrite it. I do remember the concepts, so they will show up in the future here and there. I had planned to post this and then work on the next post to catch up. But, very frankly, I'm just not in the mood. I don't want my disappointment and temporary rage to color the next post. So, I leave you with the pictures above, and simply ask for your understanding.

Thank you!