Just my take on

THE CONTINUING WEIRDNESS OF EVERYTHING
JANUARY 3, 2012 7:51PM

OH NO, YOU DI-ENT DELETE MY POST!

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My tags say it all, if you can indeed GET my tags.  (Yesterday's post had a quite shortened version of them.)  I am too upset to  talk about my post that just got eaten--when I tried to upload a photo, I was taken to the home page.  More than once.  I really wanted to keep that writing as part of my record of my mom's last years.  Shit shit shit.  Well, here's the photo that I wanted to post in celebration of the beautiful otherworldly moment I had with my mother today.  This light was not green in life but here it is so who am I to argue with greatness?   100_3555
This photo is so beautiful I might forgive OS for killing my words.  Perhaps the picture demanded a solo show.

 

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sorry for the loss...it happens often enough to OS folk that many then begin the regimen of composing offline, then pasting all at once. Then at least the words are still at hand. I wonder if you kept clicking the "back" button on the browser you'd get back to the page that shows the words...nothing to lose by trying if you haven't already. best wishes and good luck going forward...I'd like to hear about the metaphysical experience if it's resurrected or reconstructed. -b
Lovely photo.
Sometimes OS eats things, when it's metaphysically hungry. All you can do is email Gail. Or try what Barry said.
I doubt you can 'unfuck' anyone, though.
Maybe after a walk around you can sit back down & write it again & it will be even better ?
O god. The ad beneath your post here shows clouds parting on a blue sky, & 'You can buy Peace of Mind.' ~ The Apia Funeral Plan. $2 a week.
I'm sure the picture demans a solo show no less than your precious words which met that terrible fate. I hope you will find the will and the inspiration that guided your fingers to write them the first time. Save them on the word, first. Very best wishes to you.

R♥
Sometimes, fate works out in ways we don't agree with, and it's entirely possible the fates thought the thousand words from the beautiful picture and your brief statement were enough.

That being said, I have started hitting "select all" and "copy" before I hit post, then if it disappears it's in the magic clipboard.
At least I should have saved intermittently. Thank you for the sympathy. I will return and I hope broaden my understanding of what happened to me, not the p ost! Kim--O Wise One--unfuck, indeed. Perhaps Art can make sense of that one.
Very sorry for the eaten post...I have found I have to type mine offline and then paste seperately to avoid such OS meals. Your tags made me giggle, please forgive me. The photo, is breathtaking.
I tried two X's to comment here.

I tried a comment @ Kathy Reisemitz.

I tried to comment @ Joseph Bozutta's post.
Mr. Bozutta posted on the Brooklyn Museum.
Kathy Reisemitz had o- rates, 0- reads, 0-comments.
Her most was Titled: This is funny. My comments no go.
This happens many more times than I moan and groans.
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Why?
Kerry?
You?
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Will you ever provide a responsible theory?
Server?
No it is not!
Explain?
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As with Blake, haiku - these poets see the universe
in a grain of sand; they suggest an entire astronomy
by their specks
and their flashes.
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Robert Spies.
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Turn gadget electricity on.
If I don't it gets deleted`gin.
I am not making stories up.
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Try to explain why? Kerry.
sigh. . .
@Kim--Two bucks a week? Typical, my luck. Everyone is so generous with empathy. Calms me down. Michele, it's one of those laugh else you'll cry thing-so I'm glad you giggled. Phyllis, fate is indeed a cheeky cuss. FusunA, you are always so kind; is that an oriental poppy? I will try to impart the underlying emotion again. Tomorrow.
I know the feeling.
I find it useful to "save" at intervals when composing on the site, and to do it routinely before doing something drastic, like uploading a photo. You don't have to save to Word or anything - just into the buffer. You can instantly reconstruct your post in New Post, if necessary - including photos.

I have occasionally - lately - found on trying to upload a photo that the upload square shows front page - but I have just "cancelled" and tried again until (after several tries) it comes up right. Do you mean that? Or a complete whole-page return to Front Page?

At any rate, a lovely photo...
No, no, exactly, Myriad. Thank you for the lesson. I shall save at regular intervals (unless I start to compose in a Word document) and then react accordingly if I get that mini-home screen. Thanks!
For the life of me I can't imagine why anyone would compose on line and then complain when they lose it. Compose your piece in Word or some other word processing program, edit it, save it, spell-check it... then post it. Now you have a saved piece that you can file away and maybe even use as raw material to rework later.
i believe that your tags may have caught some of that underlying essence of the missing words and what they held, wherever they are...

i think that, perhaps, with such a strong determination, you just may be able to, metaphysically speaking, "unfuck" someone...

at least, give it a shot...

hope it works, and your sentiments can be reunited with this fleeting image of what the water held.
Your headline made me laugh! Rated with sympathy. I agree with bbd. I write in Word and cut and paste all at once into OS to avoid the agony of delete.
Jeff Howe, you are right.
Patrick, thank you.
Deborah M-W--the agony of delete. Am I a dork for never having heard that. I'm still giggling.
Scanner: fist-bump, dude.
Inverted Interrobang--is that not a special punctuation mark?! Right on--I'm a syntax nerd. Somehow today I don't need to have what I wrote in writing--knowing it is enough. I also think a metaphysical unfuck is possible, though perhaps not on the part of the fuckee. In my case, though, yes.
Hee on all the tages but love " Untill then I'll spit in your general direction," best.

We all should know better, but I too had a post eaten last week. I took it as some sign... a sign of what? I have no idea , but it made me feel better that I spend a good hour for nothing :(.
Love photo there, The good daugher. Look forward to the text if it ever returns.
i'm sorry about your post being lost, but honestly? the author tags rant is worth the price of admission :)
Ah, Fernsy and Abbie--two of my faves.
Perhaps the words that disappeared ... were meant for only you ... who can know ...
" ... it was my heart, i am spent ...."
These words tell us everything ... allow us to hear ... your heart ... and your photograph ... such a photograph ... allows us to celebrate the moment you knew alone with your mom ... here ... with you ...
thinking of you ... and of her ... and of moments when heart is all there is ...
This is sincerely relaxing. OS does eat things. I have no idea how that affects its diet.
It is beautiful, and maybe the photo did assert its supremacy over the words. For future reference, tho, if I'm writing I don't want to lose to OS's fickle finger, I type it first offline in a Word document, then copy it here.
I shoulda read the comments here before I got all preachy. Nothing like a little redundancy to make one sleepy, eh?