It's Like the David Copperfield Blog

Have you ever had somebody do something
so obnoxious that you just had to walk away?
Like you couldn't deal with them right then
or you might slap them. I had this very experience
Friday night with my computer. I did the
Friday post with the bullets.....typed it up and was down
to just pushing the button to publish the silly thing when
my obnoxious jerk of a computer decided to
be an obnoxious jerk. And I don't even know what
it did. You know me and the technology don't
get along so well together anyway.

So I don't have any idea what happened other than
it just decided to cause my post to vanish into thin air.
Stupid computer. I was so annoyed. If it had been acting up
all along, giving me hints that it might do something, that would have been okay. But to pull a surprise attack on me...that was just cold.
I mean, it was totally fine the whole time. And then
I go to hit the last key, the thing to make it happen and
lo and behold--zap. It's gone.
And there's no trail of crumbs to follow.
So I had to just walk away. I couldn't have a conversation
with the computer about how it's behavior was making me
feel because I probably would have just thrown it off
of the roof of the house.

Here's the odd part.
The post was gone. Totally gone. Thin air gone.
That was Friday night.
I get on here today....Sunday evening....and part of it is here.
Isn't that weird? I know Lloyd Dobbler will think
I did something or I'm making this up or something.
And he'd be wrong.
It wasn't there and now PART of it is back.
I couldn't have been more surprised if I had pulled
one of those never-ending rainbow handkerchiefs
from my pocket.

So without further ado....and before it can vanish
into thin air again....I present to you a portion
of the magical disappearing post from Friday....
Not that it's anything exciting...but it does appear
to be magical and capable of making itself disappear
...so...you might want to check it out...

• I hope you will play song #2 on the juke box and just ride around in your car with the windows down on a country road for a few minutes. That's the way yesterday and today have been. Stunningly beautiful days with the warm sun and the cooler temperatures and the happiness that comes with the change of the seasons. Lovely day. Bill Withers is so right.
• Isn't Bill Withers also the guy who sings "Ain't No Sunshine When She's Gone?"
  
• Multiple people asked me today if I had lost weight. I guess this new blouse I bought this week was a good choice. And now I will have to wear it every single day until I do actually lose some weight.
• I got my little book from my little friend today and now I have something to be excited about one night a week. I never did get together that book club/Bible study group I was supposed to be reviving-- so someone else did. Only we aren't meeting at my house, we are meeting at Starbucks. So I (alone) get to go (out of the house) to Starbucks once a week and talk to adults (without a child...or four). And drink coffee-type things. This is like a major joy in my little home schooling mom life. Major.
• Of course I couldn't let it go. Three bullets later I have already looked up Bill Withers and I did not realize that he sang other songs that I know. I don't think I even really knew his name before yesterday when I had to find "Lovely Day" and drop a dime in the juke box. He also sang "Lean On Me" and "Just the Two of Us." He sings happy, mellow songs. Thanks, Bill Withers.
• How would you like to have a name that is a synonym for horse's hind quarters? Isn't that what withers are? I know it's a place where the sun does shine because that's what they say in "Run For the Roses:" "...with the sun on your withers...."

There you go.
That's the portion that my silly computer
was willing to give back to me.
That's all it wanted you to read.
Stuff about the withers.
Not that the missing part was, you know,
earth-shattering news or
the revelation of my secret identity.
It was just minutia.
Just more of the fluffy cotton balls
that come tumbling across my mind.
So you really didn't miss anything.

Except the magic
and the disappearing.

But I told you about that.