Augh!

[gurdonark]

I wrote my evening post about things we take on faith and things we take by hearsay and the many literary associations we bring to everything we see and do. I told my little story about dominos, nightmares, leprechauns, card casinos, bocce, hedge apples, possessed cinematic boy dolls, dreams, and a city park near Olympic or Pico in Los Angeles. I even managed to edit it down so that I would not have to burden people with either a long post or the lj cutting thing. I hit that cool button that says "update journal", but instead of the reassurance that my post had been entered, I got the IE notation that the website could not be contacted. In the past, this has happened, and repeated posting just makes for duplicate posts. I hit the "recent" key to see if it had posted notwithstanding the error flag. It had not posted, so I tried to go back to the journal update. Sadly, though the "update journal" was now blank. Now the post is lost. It's no great denial to posterity--it just started with a set of one dollar dominos and went downhill from there. But I placed just the tiniest slice of my soul into that post, and now it's gone. I feel just like the boy in the cartoon when the kite gets hung in the tree.

Comments

[amatrixangel.livejournal.com]

that's a bummer. For long entries, or long replies, I usually write things up in the word processor and then copy and paste into the lj client just in case this sort of thing happens. Also, if I'm making a long reply (comment) I hit the 'select all' then 'copy' in the browser before I go to 'preview' or 'post comment'. That way, if it stuffs up, then you can always just paste it back in again.

I know how it feels. We've all done it :)

[gurdonark.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the sage advice and kind words. It's funny--I've lost lots of posts before, but this one I kinda liked. You are dead on right about the MS Word, although I tend to get lazy and use the wicked AOL half-browser, which is particularly resistant to cut and paste. It's pure laziness! I could easily minimize AOL and go in through IC or Netscape, but I just love that low-hassle approach to life! ONly it's not so low when a post erases.

Tonight was like some Faustian bargain, though--hit the update button, signaling "I am content", and old Mephisto pulls out the text! I didn't even get Helen of Troy!

You didn't even get the Trojan Horse!

[lonestarslp.livejournal.com]

Your description of the post sounded tantalizing. Maybe parts of it will come back to you in the next few days and you can slip them in.

Cheer up

[starling321.livejournal.com]

I am sure it was well-written and insightful, the way your posts always are. So let's pretend it posted and that as usual it made me smile.

Re: Cheer up

[gurdonark.livejournal.com]

What a sweet thing to say. Thank you. Actually, I was thinking about one of your posts just this evening, as I began to formulate the Getty Museum of my heart and soul, to be toured in a future post.

[sushimonkey.livejournal.com]

You can even just copy whatever you write in the "Message" box, just in case

[gurdonark.livejournal.com]

yes, that is something I should do.

[cathla143.livejournal.com]

Dontcha hate when that happens?

I know how you feel; I've lost a post or two that I'd put a lot of thought into... It's frustrating.

[gurdonark.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the note of sympathy :)

;)

[nancyjane.livejournal.com]

it's wonderful to read your posts again... sorry for your loss

i can't help thinking tough... if the boy whose kite was stuck in the tree was Native American and you took a picture of him, would he appear in the prints? or was his soul already stolen... maybe he'd be just slightly transparent....