I Really Am Working On This
My, how frustrating. I couldn’t write about this last week when it happened because it would have made me cry. I think I’m over it now, so here goes:
I just started using a desktop blogging client for Mac called ecto. It’s really great, and I’ve really enjoyed my free trial. Almost. Last week I spent well over 2 hours researching and writing for II-B – ‘In the Hope’ (which, incidentally, you should see appear later this morning). At the end of this little session, I wanted to flip over to HTML edit mode in ecto to manually do some stuff with my code. As soon as I clicked the button, I noticed something very strange. And by strange I mean my entire post was gone. Apparently the auto-save feature of ecto still has a little glitch they need to work out. Namely, it doesn’t work. Despite all my efforts and searching of forums and punching holes in walls, the best I could recover was this:
1Paul, a bond-servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, for the faith of those chosen of God and the knowledge of the truth which is according to godliness,
2in the hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised long ages ago,
3but at the proper time manifested, even His word, in the proclamation with which I was entrusted according to the commandment of God our Savior,
4To Titus, my true child in a common faith: Grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Savior.
II. Purpose
Which represents perhaps the first 15 seconds of my researching/writing session. It must have totally ignored the ensuing 140 minutes or so. Apparently I didn’t quite reach the 5-minute auto-save mark. Go figure. So this morning I have made my peace with ecto, and I’m going to try it again. Hopefully all my brilliant hypotheses and conjectures are still bouncing around in my head and it won’t take as long to recreate as it did to create originally. Thanks for bearing with me.
