Oops I did it again!

 I did it again. I acceded my word count on the the program I use to write my BLOG. As I said before, once I reach a certain word count, the program doesn't just erase every word over the max amounted allowed, it erases every document I have saved! 

I could understand if it were to give some kind of warning, but it doesn't. I don't mind telling you, I cried like a baby! 

I only had around twenty posts lost this time, but several of them were completely done, just not published yet. 

Completely my fault. The program was developed to keep a few addresses or phone numbers, not hours and hours of BLOG writings. 

There are a few writings, I managed to rescue. I had gotten into the habit of copying and pasting some of my posts, as a text, to a spam phone number. It was undeliverable, so it always came back as "Failed to Deliver ", but could still be resurrected, if I ever needed to. 

I thought I was out smarting the machine, but it only keeps so much, then it to is deleted. Another problem, is that I would often forget to even do that. A system doesn't work, if you fail to use it. 

My immediate response, out of frustration, was to say that I was going to quit BLOGGING. That makes about as much sense, as to stop eating, because your diet failed. It was my wife, who made me realize this. 

And I don't want to send the message to my little girl, that her Dad is a quitter. 

Life is full of setbacks: machines failing, promotions falling through, your car breaking down, or having a stroke, and contracting a rare condition called Locked in Syndrome. 

The path we path we walk, will no doubt, be littered with obstacles that will test us. How we respond to those tests, ultimately decide the kind of person we become, and the kind of example we set. 

I realize that I am in a mess, of my own making. I need to learn from this mishap, rather than stomping my feet, a figure of speech, and blaming the computer. I knew the parameters I was working with, I chose to ignore them. Then I got upset, when what I knew would happen, actually happened. There are steps I could have taken to prevent this. 

Get back on the horse, when you fall off, get right back up on that thing! That's the only way to keep moving forward, the only way you ever will reach your goals, or anything close. Keep trying. 

The problem is, I seldom start a post, and work on it to completion. I had at least 6-8 posts, which were almost done. 

I thought that by keeping the number of posts around 20 that I had open, I wouldn't exceed my limit. Apparently I was wrong. Every one of my files was deleted, when I did a restart of the computer. 

Looks like it's shame on me!