Thursday, May 27, 2004

My Own Personal Hell.

Was it Prometheus that had to push that giant boulder up a hill, only to have it roll back down as soon as he was nearing the top?

That is what today has been like with pages 167-168 of the yearbook. This morning (meaning around 2am), my plans for that page were glorious. After one power surge my progress was a erased. No worries, I got back on the horse and got back to where I was in half the time. Happily saved my progress before going to bed...but being a total fool left the page open on my computer. Then there was a network shutdown when the main server room for the campus overheated (this was about 8am). Woke up having my work deleted. Never mind...it's a new day and I've done it a couple times...I can blaze through it.

[short power surge...deleted].

[computer freeze...deleted].

[network failure...deleted].

[reason for failure unknown...DELETED].

That's right. If you count last night's attempts, I've had to create this page a grand total of seven times. Good news is that on four of those seven times I could salvage parts of it before it got deleted. But that leaves the other three. The page has suffered and is no longer glorious. I just finished it as fast as I could this last time.

I may or may not have cried for the first time over yearbook today.

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