"Blessed are those who don’t need to fill in pro-formas, for they shall not be so frustrated they want to stick the heid on the computer monitor".
Just spent an hour writing a report on a pro-forma and it wouldn’t let me save it – or copy it – or print it. So all my wise, perceptive, helfully constructive comments just sit there, ciphers on a screen, mockingly inert, unmoved and apparently immovable, and in the non-theological sense, unsaved.
So – nothing else for it – to save doing the work again I decide to write out the more complex bits in longhand to save me thinking it all through again and if truth be told so as not to lose the more, in my less than humble opinion, well, the impressively, sonorously wise bits – aye, OK!
Well – only took quarter of an hour. But then I had to find out what went wrong. So I retraced my clicks, repeated the actions, and when the pro-forma appeared it gave me an option to save it before I started working on it. So I clicked save – and bless me, so it did. It saved it. So now I have a Word document into which I can insert, all the handwritten work I copied from the previous pro-forma which was, again in the non-theological sense, unsaved and apparently unsaveable.
By the time I now type my report, it will be a third draft – I wouldn’t mind if the whole process had contributed to my sanctification – on the contrary!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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