“You Never Win”

(post 12)

I just had a unique opportunity. It came about because I've been up so late blogging. (I always forget what I want to blog about, and tonight I kept thinking of things, so I kept going… it's now 3:17 am and I'm exhausted – by the way, if my parents ever read this it's ok. It's a 3 day weekend and I just wired myself by programming for several hours. – These kinds of things are important to parents of college students who are suspected of staying up way later than is healthy.) Anyhow I had just finished the last post and published it to the web; I about to power down (I had an update threatening to turn off the computer in 3 minutes anyways) when my roommate started talking in his sleep. I couldn't pass up the opportunity to get it down and remember it… when I ever do wake up to the noise other wake up in their sleep I can never remember what was said or done. So, here it is:

Sympathetically: "I'm sorry."

*Pause*

*Soft laugh – the type reserved for the humor of cruel irony*

*Pause*

With humor in voice: "You never win."

*Pause*

Trailing: "You never win…"

Here's the best part. I'd forgotten about that update. I never told it to wait. I was just about to post something similar to the above (what he said is accurate, what I said is different), when everything turned off without asking me to save or anything. I had to wait for the power up to retype this because I was determined to win. Today is the same day that I posted "Pain" and "Redemption?" as the result of losing everything I'd written for the last half hour; and "Pretzels" in the which I note that the program I spent 30 hours on over the last week was 2 hours too late to be on time. Everything I posted today was the epitome of " You never win."

*Much Laughter*

Word just crashed on me again (the first time I was writing "Pretzels") and then came back with a message that said something along the lines of "We've noticed that office has crashed on you frequently lately. We recommend that you run our office diagnostic tool." Fortunately, I'd just saved and Word has a good auto save…. I hadn't saved on "Pretzels" and it gave me most of it back. It crashed two times after that and I lost this post both times (I wasn't very far in either time). May I repeat: "You never win." Thanks for the hilarious timing Schmetterling. By the way, office has never crashed before on me, so I'm attributing it to the power of today.