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I lose so many entries that way

April 15th, 2014 at 09:35 am

I kept losing blog entries and, for the life of me, I couldn't figure out why. But now I think I know. Maybe. Is it because this place has a timer? Like if I don't finish my entry within say an hour, it is gone? If so, anybody know how long I have before it expires?

I am writing at work so I don't always finish in a timely fashion, but if this is indeed what is making me lose my entries, then I will be much more observant about my time from now on.

Anyways, uh, what was I going to say again? It wasn't very interesting to be honest. Probably just as well that the original entry got lost this time.

Oh yeah, I meant to say that I am tired and I worked like 122+ hours the past two weeks, and yet, my taxes, insurance, retirement contribution, and so forth is eating a third of my entire gross. Yikes.

Also, summer heat seems to have arrived early for me. Early enough to make me sweat and itch and not sleep well... which is bad when paired with working so many hours. (It's also crazy that I know some who have worked even more than that.) So, I broke out my room AC, but this time, I even bought and added window insulation to both improve my AC's efficiency, as well as effective block out the sun light in my room. I work night shift and I read that the sun can be quite disruptive when trying to sleep during the day.

Finally, I am probably close to replacing my current car... which will be a pain, but I guess the day was going to arrive inevitably. This time, I am seriously staring at vehicles that can allow me to modify and turn into campers, at least for part-time living. Yes, it is a crazy idea... but I just really hate mortgages and rent that much.

The biggest challenge with vandwelling (as the community likes to call it) believe it or not is with the AC. ACs draw an extremely large amount of power; enough that portable electrical power just isn't going to cut it. Most just end up traveling further up north during the summer time, but I can't leave due to family and work. This is the one aspect of mobile life that I have yet to crack....

I can probably ramble on more about this, but I better stop here and post before I lose this entry as well.

3 Responses to “I lose so many entries that way”

  1. doingitallwrong Says:
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    I think it's less than an hour before you get timed out. If you're using Firefox, or maybe Chrome, there's an add-on called "Lazarus" that will recover your text I case of a crash or time out. It's saved me countless times. Alternatively, a lot of people write their posts in Word or a text editor, and then just copy/paste to their blog when they're done.

    Summer heat seems to be a long way away here, as it's 26 degrees now...

  2. Retired To Win Says:
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    Do what I do. Compose your post on Word (or whatever word processing program you have) and then cut and paste it into the SavingAdvice new entry form.

    Just remember to save your work as you go in your word processing program.

    Cheers!

  3. CB in the City Says:
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    Even easier, after you finish your entry, select all the text and hit Control-C. Then, if it's lost, you can just Control-V it back in the box. I do it all the time.

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