Hi, I'm LadyK. I'm a 48-year-old divorced mother of 2; ages 22 and 15. I am a Christ-follower and live in the Southeastern US. I spend my days as a legal assistant, and dream of spending my days reading and writing. Welcome to my world!
It all came about simply enough. I was online chatting and the "Download" menu kept popping up, with automatic downloads of files which were titled "Desktop-1," Desktop-2," etc. Every time one would pop up, I'd click CANCEL, and it would stop. Then I'd go look at my files, and there they would be ... all those files just sitting there on the list. And so, fearing they may be attempts to hack my Mac or spread electronic swine flu and the like, I decided to just delete them. I did a global search for "Desktop" and then did a SHIFT+DEL (if you didn't already know, holding the SHIFT key down while you hit the DELETE key does a secure delete, which bypasses your Trash). The computer, knowing what I was about to do, asked me "Are you sure you want to permanently delete the selected items"? "Oh yeah, I'm sure," I thought, and then I did it ... I clicked "YES."
I suppose I should have known something was amok when the little display window showed over 5,000 items being deleted. I knew there had been a lot of download attempts, but that seemed unbelievably high. I could have (and should have) clicked on CANCEL, but I was feeling quite accomplished at having foiled the hacker/swine flu. Then I left the room to let the computer electronically destroy and erase everything in that list.
It wasn't until much later -- too late -- that I realized what I had done. You see, in the midst of that list of all those "Desktop-#" files was this one item called simply "DESKTOP." That one was kind of a biggie ... as in being the actual desktop from my computer. The light bulb in my head (very dim at the moment) went off ... so THAT'S why there were so many files. And then reality hit ... because on my desktop was a folder entitled "Book" which contained over 40 completed devotions and another 50 or 60 partially written entries for my book. Over two years of writing ....poof!
I cried. Not only at that moment, but also each time I turned on the computer over the next week or so and saw the empty desktop. All that work, just .... gone.
So now, it's back to the drawing board, but instead of a book, I'm going to write here, as the mood strikes, in little bits. Maybe one day I'll get back to the book, but I think it's more important to get back to writing!
I welcome your comments, but please keep your language child appropriate. I don't expect everyone to agree with me, and I certainly don't expect to agree with everyone but I do like to hear what others think!
More to come!
