The Strangest Thing…

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It’s 7:47am, and I am awake. On Sunday. While that is sort of odd, it’s perhaps more odd that we are awake this early to go to the county fair. 🙂

Jen’s dad is preaching at the worship service at the fair this morning, so they asked if we would like to join them singing. We did, so here we go.

Last night’s bedtime was later than it was supposed to be because as I went to post my article to the Buffalo Bills Review, I found out that I had lost more than half of it. That was not possible, since I saved every 5 minutes as I was writing it. But what happened was probably the strangest thing that has ever happened to me on a computer.

I originally saved the file to the wrong directory. So, using OS X Tiger’s Spotlight search window, I found where I put the article. It was in a strange templates directory. So, instead of going to that directory the normal way, I decided to try to drag the file FROM the search window to my desktop. That apparently made a copy of the file. So, then I took the same file (which was apparently in the same (wrong) place) and sent it to the trash. I saw the one on the desktop still, so we were good.

I didn’t think about it after that, and closed out the application after finishing the article. There was no “Do you want to save your file” warning or anything, so all was well. When I opened the application back up, the file was saved at the ORIGINAL save point!!!!!!! I could not figure it out, until I traced back what I did and realized that somehow I had REALLY confused my computer, and every time I saved the file… it was saving a phantom file or something?

Don’t know, but had to share. That was the strangest thing I have ever seen a computer do. 🙂