Wednesday, October 27, 2010

3am

I have now officially retired from WikiTravel.  I tried to go to sleep but WikiTravel loomed over head.  I have just finished and I am still only a little bit happier with my work.  I don't want to blame WikiTravel alone for my inability sleep due to the intense rain that is amplified by my house.  It really does sound awful outside right now and I hope that it will stop before I get to school.  I am also afraid that I may have left my sunroof vented and that rain is pouring into my car but I digress.  
Looking through my page I saw still a fair amount of mistakes.  Although I had thought that I had fixed the Buy section, all the words were jumbled together.  I can't begin to think how this happened but I put it on the back of my mind and entered the edit tab.  
I was forced to read very carefully through this section and pick out what stores were what.  As I did this, I realized that I was still missing some addresses and phone numbers.  I looked up each and every one that was missing this and wrote it on the page.  This mistake was in more than one place and I realized that it was a good thing that I had woken up and decided to keep trekking on my page.  
As one problem was fixed I realized another needed attention.  I discovered that some of my sentences I had changed were still very opinionated and this led me to realize that I had never actually posted the page.  In my state of pure exhaustion, I had hit preview instead of save page.  I closed my computer after this and lost the file.   Fortunately, my father has instilled the value of save early and often whenever using a computer.  This code ingrained in my DNA was a life-saver and I will be sure to thank my Dad tomorrow.  I had saved my page on a Word document in a couple of different files so I was set.  All I had to do was re-paste it and do the work I had done a little while ago again.  This at first seemed like a daunting task but proved to be simple as I had become much more familiar with WikiTravel.  I am now completely done with my work and I can finally get some sleep.  Goodnight! 
I should also note that although the post says 3am, I was not up until 3am.  This is simply the name of the song I was listening to by OAR while doing this post.  The actual time is 2:06 according to my watch.  

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