Don't Fail Me Now!

Ack! The power just went off a few minutes ago. What was that all about? Luckily, Word has an ‘auto save’ utility and it creates an .ASD file for you to retrieve after the power returns.

But…it failed me this morning. When I opened the document after the power returned, the last paragraph was missing! Of course it was the most eloquent and powerful paragraph I had ever written. And now it’s gone forever. You’ll have to trust me about the eloquent and powerful description. Really.

So, how about this quote from Nietzsche instead?

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

No, that’s not a commentary on aging. My memory has been bad or selective for as many years as I can remember. Which is…