So I've been working a little hard to finish Sky Waves, having lost so much time to illness over the spring. I've promised delivery of the ms July 26th. I revised 59 (short-short) chapters over last Saturday and Sunday. Now, I haven't slept well since June, and I'm getting just a teensy bit edgy. Monday night I taped open my eyelids and fired up my new Windows Vista-powered laptop to sketch in a new chapter ... but Windows Vista can't find the latest Sky Waves document. Check again -- nope. "Search" can't find it. Restart. Search. Nothing. Restart. Search -- got it ... registering at 32 pages.
When last I looked it was at 168 pages.
Now it registered just 32 pages.
I almost puked. Yes, I'd backed the file up, but not correctly, as I discovered, using my portable drive earlier in the day. For a few moments I thought I'd replaced the version with the 59 of 98 chapters with an older version of just 16 of 98 chapters.
Sweating now, I hit Ctrl End to see where this document ended.
Okay, all my work was there. But Windows Vista still told me the file measured 32 pages, despite me being on page 168. Finally, Windows read the file length correctly.
At least, I'm quite content to blame Windows Vista for this little bit of confusion. Yeah, that's it, evil Windows Vista, out to get me, out to get us all ...
Not sure what I need first: chocolate, Valium, or a new colour job at the salon.
1 comment:
Hi Michelle - nice to see that you have a blog. I read your collection of short stories when I was a book reviewer at the Calgary Herald and am hoping to read your novel while I am on vacation next week.
My advice - for what is worth - would be to either a)get away from Vista - it causes nothing but problems, go back to Microsoft Office if you can or b) get a Mac. :)
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