- Posting video on blogger is easier in the wee hours of the morning.
- Good thing my blood sugar was 42 at 4:30 this morning!
- The computer doesn’t reach REM sleep if Photoshop or Windows Live Writer is open.
- My screen saver pictures cycle all night.
- Sometimes the computer doesn’t reach REM sleep no matter what’s open or not.
- I think the computer has the same sleep disorder I do. It’s never tired!
- I’ve learned that it’s very important to save all my work before bed.
- Actually any time I step away.
- Sometimes Heath turns off the computer because we almost never do.
- I don’t really care what anyone thinks about how un-green this is for the environment.
- We only care about how un-green it is for our wallet.
- But obviously not enough!
- Sometimes the computer restarts itself.
- Sometimes it restarts several times a day.
- When it does everything not saved is lost.
- Windows Live Writer does NOT auto save like Microsoft Word does.
- I have had to rewrite many a rough draft because of that.
- I hardly ever use the New Post button blogger offers.
- The last couple of days I have.
- I don’t know why.
- Sometimes it depends on how I want the pictures arranged.
- I have more control of that with Live Writer.
- Even if I compose the post in Live Writer I have to use blogger to post video.
- Sometimes I just hit the New Post button for no apparent reason, like I did with this post.
- I’ve learned that sometimes the computer won’t wake up after we tell it to sleep.
- After trying everything (patience, sweet talk, violent threats, panicked crying) we inevitabley have to hold the power button until the computer shuts down.
- Prayers do not help.
- Heath’s sympathetic shrugs and kind voice as he tells me he’s sorry but he told me so does not help either.
- Knowing he will be back with McDonald’s for breakfast (my favorite tiny bit of absolute goodness that he planned to get before the computer turned into a snarling mess) doesn’t help.
- But there is still a small glimmer of hope in the back of my mind that maybe just maybe I will be that one in a million who gets their work back.
- And I did.
- Hallelujah!
- My tears of sorrow turned into holding my breath and gasping repeatedly.
- Could it be true? Did I really see the Live Writer tab with the title of my latest creation on it?
- My face blue from gasping and holding my breath as the computer finished waking up completely, I clicked on the Live Writer tab and held my breath some more as the text filled in slower than a slow motion scene in Top Gun.
- My words greeted me warmly.
- I cried.
- Not really, it just sounded good.
- But the adrenaline is still pulsing in my temples and my heart hasn’t stopped pounding yet.
- I BEAT THE ODDS!
- And my McDonald’s Sausage McMuffin tasted even better than I could have ever imagined.
