Does anyone else___
- Get so involved in so many threads at once that you lose control entirely and end up with sixteen tabs open..... [where was I?] [give up and get coffeeeeee ] [take the kids to the park... ]
- Post a comment. Realise it's mispelled. Copy the comment, delete it. Return. Return. Refresh. Repost. - then see the same error!
- Get too many emails. Freak out, go to the control panel and clear all the settings. [monk mode] Then three days later sneak back and restore them all. [even more emails than before - but what the heck!] [check three times a day] [ooops I should be working!]
- Post an article. Take one look. Then hit delete. [PERMANENTLY DELETE] [pheeew!]
- Re-edited an article so many times you eventually take it down and start again.
- Re-edit an article until you forget what the hell you think you thunk in the first place (- this one just might be me being me?)
- Open up Publish - Article. _______ then close Publish - Article, then go surfing [mmm? what has -martinchill- had his nose into?] [Go AstroGirl. Go.] [Good point Sandy, I'm write with you...]
- Turned around to discover your ten minutes has stretched....... to three hours.
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[should I delete it! naahhh!. . . they'll understand what I ment….]
I am so sorry...my apologies TO STEPHEN BREAU!
Yes Kathryn and Dawn I have
I went to comment for a third time (once during a bleary eyed moring surf) now I run up the list before I comment - every time)
I accidentally clicked No Thanks just the once (no names no pack drill) then decided 'what the hell - a little rejection is good for the soul' (Ain't I a stinker?)
Y'know if i'd wanted I could have written a list running to about thirty 'stupid things'.
Hi Hannah - we don't have many power failures 'round here. Now you've given me yet another neurosis to entertain. {Add power failure to list)
(good morning folk)
13. Posted something I thought was perfectly reasonable and had someone come back and ask if I'm okay.
I'm really happy two sea number too up their. I try two get my articles as clean as can be, but make a mess of my comments. Often, I type the comment, post it, see the mistake, immediately copy and delete it, and do the backtrack thing to post again. Then I have this fear that an email copy of the original (or two or three) has already gone to someone's email and they're sitting there laughing at me.
How many of you are sitting there laughing at me? Or cussing me?
But I have an advantage Sandy
(except for carolyn) you are all a very long way away and are eighteen hours behind us.
So when I post something it usually gets posted yesterday (our time)
And since I try not to fret about my yesterdays - i'm already ahead of the pack
Uh-huh
Uh-huh
two more for the list
Now for 15 - I just tried to post this comment onto the wrong thread (caught myself in time)
....and isn't it a worry when you get a huge bunch of comments and nobody even mentions your favourite bits?
[in this case "monk mode" and my "mindbogglingly loooonnnnngggg tag"]
drat, drat, double drat
Oh, do post this to my Gather Group Top 10 Lists. The 10 thing isn't dogma; eight is fine. No dogma in my house.
I recognize that person!
rightio!
If someone don't mention my "monk mode" and my "mindbogglingly loooonnnnngggg tag" I'm gunna chuck a hissy fit.
I mean it!
I'm holding my breath until...
(I take direction very well. What's more I am totally familiar with this brand of Orstralian Male stubborn behaviour. He really was holding his breath all that time...)
ta My life is fulfilled (shallow ain't I)
Sounds like you have ADD too James.....boy can I relate! That is to all but the last part of #7 - martinchill and Sandy have good points? Nah!!!
Great article....hang in there!
("Condoleezza Rice was asked some hard questions.... ")
(i suspect someone noticed that I'd mispelled her name in the title)
(good haiku - low IQ?)
(She won't take it Captain! She's breaking up!)
I'll collate all these into a definitve list (number two) tommorrow,
goodnight all 10:48PM
ha ha ha ha ha (exit stage left)
Two and one half hours later- I was happy with what I wanted to post...
So, I highlighted my trash... Right clicked what I didn't want and pushed back... Yeah- BACK!! I lost it all... I was so angry and sad... I cried cause it meant that much to me... it was gone... And then I stayed away from Gather for a week or so...
Did I learn anything?? Nope... I still write my article in my publish section.... but I am more careful with what I do... and I am more apt to walk away from it.. than try to hurry through it... ~L
Laura_
When I got to the word BACK my hand went to my forehead and I groaned
where are we now?
(#84 5 6 7)
I compose most everthing in word and then save, which gives me the heading (minus doc)
Unless I am trying to update something,
and it becomes something different,
(the candle buns down, the cat dies of old age &c even before you get to the point - then when you do get to the point, you realise you are out on virgin territory.
(big sigh)
copy it onto
Erupt word
paste save then work on it tommorrow.... (yawn scratch, that late?)
then you have to be careful to discard, not post, the original musing
mine get pretty mangled
I honour your courage Laura
(I'm sure that's the right word)