Feeling a Bit Stupid! / myLot

New Zealand

March 1, 2016 11:43pm CST

Well, it looks like I've just done a silly thing. I guess that's what happens when you've spent all day on the computer doing other things. My brain obviously isn't functioning right tonight. An hour or so ago I wrote a post about the monarch butterfllies in our garden. I think that post just wasn't meant to happen right from the beginning. Half way through writing it, the post suddenly decided to publish itself, half way through a sentence. I quickly clicked on edit, finished writing it and added a photo. All seemed to be going well. Just now, when I looked in, the post appeared twice in my list of discussions. That's okay, I thought, I'll delete one of them. Hey presto! By deleting one I managed to delete both. No, I'm not going to write about the burtterflies again, not tonight anyway. But I've found a different monarch butterfly photo to use here, the other one was on my laptop.. If any of you did notice the discussion was there and now it's gone, that is why. So, now I'm feeing a little stupid.

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crazyhorseladycx

@crazyhorseladycx (39503)

• United States

2 Mar 16

aw, don't feel bad, hon! i think there's still some glitches with the new format 'n such t'weren't 'f yer makin'. shame ya lost 'em both :( great pic!

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Val

@valmnz (17095)

• New Zealand

2 Mar 16

But sadly the pic isn't as good as the one I used from the laptop.

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crazyhorseladycx

@crazyhorseladycx (39503)

• United States

2 Mar 16

@valmnz bless yer heart. i've been havin' troubles findin' my pics to share with folks 'n i've only got a laptop. dunno why they're visible'n picassa 'n not when i go to load 'em. still a purty shot, i've a time catchin' butterflies. by the time i get 'em focused in jest right, they move 'n i'm left with a blur, lol.

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susan

@sueznewz2 (10409)

• Alicante, Spain

2 Mar 16

@crazyhorseladycx. Same here..... concering butterflies. ...

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DW Davis

@DWDavis (25797)

• United States

3 Mar 16

I don't think you should feel stupid. You were a victim of the ghost in the machine who decided to play havoc on your post.

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Val

@valmnz (17095)

• New Zealand

3 Mar 16

@DWDavis, I think another time I should wait and see what happens.

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Koalemos

@Asylum (47893)

• Manchester, England

2 Mar 16

Apparently some Monarch butterflies migrate, so maybe yours did so while you were trying to post about it. The post may appear in Mexico before long.

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Val

@valmnz (17095)

• New Zealand

2 Mar 16

Ha, ha. Re the real butterflies, can you imagine our poor little things flapping their way across the Pacific.

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Koalemos

@Asylum (47893)

• Manchester, England

2 Mar 16

@valmnz They could always have a rest on a liner halfway across.

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Val

@valmnz (17095)

• New Zealand

3 Mar 16

@Asylum rather cool image!

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Karen Waterson

@rosekiss (30413)

• Eugene, Oregon

3 Mar 16

Don't you hate when that hapens? I have been hitting the wrong keys on my keyboard, and presto, my post disappeard as well, and I would have to start over. I have done that more than once today. I guess my hands are getting tired, and letting me know it is time to take a rest.

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Val

@valmnz (17095)

• New Zealand

3 Mar 16

I agree, Karen, there's some sort of message there when things go wrong!

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Karen Waterson

@rosekiss (30413)

• Eugene, Oregon

3 Mar 16

@valmnz I shall see how today goes, as it is just getting started. I hope that I dopn't lose any postes today, as that is so frustrating as I hate to have to start over again.

Anna

@LadyDuck (502187)

• Italy

2 Mar 16

I am pretty sure it was only a glitch, it showed twice because you have edited the post. It happens.

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Val

@valmnz (17095)

• New Zealand

2 Mar 16

Ah, yes, I had edited it. But I often edit posts and they've shown twice before.

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Anna

@LadyDuck (502187)

• Italy

3 Mar 16

@valmnz I have noticed that this does not happen all the time, but I had the same problem once.

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susan

@sueznewz2 (10409)

• Alicante, Spain

2 Mar 16

sounds more like a technical glitch than human error ... but these things happen.... usually when you are writing the post directly onto the page, and not somewhere like notepad first.....

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Val

@valmnz (17095)

• New Zealand

2 Mar 16

Here I always write directly onto the page. But this was actually already published and had responses.

Gabs

@gabs8513 (48686)

• United Kingdom

2 Mar 16

It can happen Val so don't feel stupid as it is not your Fault something must have happened on the Site when this happened

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Val

@valmnz (17095)

• New Zealand

2 Mar 16

I do agree, but I needed to explain, for those who had already responded to it.

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divalounger

@divalounger (6182)

• United States

3 Mar 16

so how did that happen? I am thinking it must have been a glitch in the system!

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Val

@valmnz (17095)

• New Zealand

4 Mar 16

I think it's what @LadyDuck suggested below, that it showed twice after I edited it. Never mind.

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Jekca

@Jessicalynnt (50523)

• Centralia, Missouri

2 Mar 16

pretty sure when it shows twice it doesn't' always exist twice.

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Val

@valmnz (17095)

• New Zealand

4 Mar 16

So I've discovered!

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Inlemay

@Inlemay (17712)

• South Africa

3 Mar 16

glitch

in your fingers - I am sure it happens to all of us - I personally have done something similar a few times, but just move one to another subject. Its as if the subject is telling me its not ready to be published!

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Val

@valmnz (17095)

• New Zealand

3 Mar 16

That's what I decided!

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Shannon

@fawkes62 (1276)

• United States

2 Mar 16

I wouldn't feel stupid, that sort of stuff can happen to anyone. Hopefully you won't have any more problems posting now.

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James Higgins

@JamesHxstatic (29410)

• Eugene, Oregon

2 Mar 16

Darn, that was a good post too.

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Val

@valmnz (17095)

• New Zealand

2 Mar 16

Thanks, I did notice you had commented on it, and was going to respond to that once I'd solved the problem of duplicate listing. I think we were all paranoid about duplicate listings back on Bubblews, so I thought I'd better correct what I thought was my error.

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