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When Do You Control Alt Delete?

Sometimes I hate computers.

Don’t get me wrong, I use one every day.

I’m surfing the interwebs like Laird Hamilton hanging 10 on a longboard.

I post, I write, I comment, I link, I tweet and type.

I don’t really know what I would do without one.

Until the laptop shits the bed.

It’s my fault, really.

I know this.

I know better.

How many tabs do you keep open at the same time?

For me, it’s too many.

Always too many.

I open something in Chrome with the intent to read it later.

I open a word doc for every single idea.

And there are a lot of them.

Or I write down scenes, and plans.

And then I skip the most important part.

Save As.

The plan is to always get back to them and finish them up.

Or copy and paste and move into another document.

I have a lot of TITLE OF BOOK INSERT and date files.

Or plans.

God, the plans.

So many of them.

Then, our good buddy Microsoft decides to stop working and shut it down.

No big deal, right.

It’s supposed to have a feature called autosave.

I’ve used it at least a dozen times to go back, pull open old docs and then save them.

But sometimes, the universe decides that whatever the hell you’re working on won’t save.

No matter where you look.

I clicked print on a document today. A pdf.

I had twelve files open in Word. An excel file. And six tabs in Google.

It started printing.

I thought, great time to multi-task and clicked on a Word doc to send to the printer.

The blue circle of death appeared.

Spinning. Twirling. Telling me, “maybe not today.”

Crash. Boom. Son of a biscuit eater.

The problem is, I can’t even remember what is gone.

What I can’t find.

Because for some reason, the auto-recover safety feature decided to not save anything since last week.

Docs gone.

Words, gone.

And yes, I know, I know, it’s all my fault.

Because if you know the fire burns and stick your hand in it, there’s only one person to blame.

Less fingers for the program that doesn’t work, and one big thumb back at the guy who should know better.

So today’s lesson for anyone.

Back it up.

Click save.

Because the program you rely on will disappoint you.

Now, instead of trying to recall the why’s and what’s of what was put down on paper, I’m going to click save and close out, and try to remember to only work on one thing at a time.

Because you can’t trust the laptops in the world.

I probably solved all the world’s problems in a few sentences and Skynet wiped it out before I spoiled the robot uprising.

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