Downfalls of technology

It never ceases to amaze me.

I'm irritated because I spent the last half hour working on 4 stories that got erased. "Microsoft Word has stopped working. What would you like to do?"

Didn't even think twice. I had literally seconds before hit Ctrl + S (shortcut key to save the file) so I closed the program.

I open it up and what do I see?

ALL 4 STORIES GONE. I don't even know how far back I have to go and redo my work (as in anything else outside of those 4 stories that I added, I don't know if it properly got saved).

All I know is that I'm irritated as hell at Microsoft Word and my own lack of judgement. The file itself is pretty big. Perhaps I was too hasty in trying to move onto the next step and clicked on the window while it was saving, thus temporarily freezing the program. Hence the error message.

Had I waited, the file would have finished saving and I would've been able to move on with my life.

But no.

I lost it all.

Granted the stories were short (and by short, I mean really short - three of the stories were 8-9 short sentences and the last story a mere 40 sentence story) and easily recalled from memory but it's the principle of the matter.

Irritating as hell. And I blame Microsoft Word. I don't care if there's an autosave function every 5 minutes or so.

If the stupid program crashes, FIX IT. After so many years they still don't seem to have it down.

At times like this, the emoticon for anger seems to so aptly convey how I feel.

>:(