christmas miracle in july
i haven't had much sleep in the past few days and it's all my project's fault. i finally did the demo yesterday and it went much better than i expected. i believe it was all the prayers that helped, so those of you who remembered to pray for me, thanks. i'll need them again this afternoon at three for my presentation. (i get to wear my suit and vest!)
anyhoo, this story takes place last night between 8:30pm and 1:30am. i had been working on my powerpoint presentation and decided that my software flowcharts needed re-working. i saved them as jpg's and closed ms visio. unfortunately, i discovered that it cut off some of the flow arrows that i needed plus other mistakes. then i discovered that visio only opens jpg's as jpg's. duh. i couldn't edit them! so i had to start over. i had just finished with the second one and i clicked on save and my computer shuts off. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!! it rebooted and said there was an error with a driver. two minutes later, another spontaneous reboot. after the third i decided to boot in safe mode (without drivers and fancy extra stuff). the only way to fix it was to restore my system to an earlier point and i had never done this before so i wasn't sure what was going to happen. i didn't know if my files were still intact or if i would have to start all over from the very beginning after five hours of work. while it was restoring, i lay on the floor and prayed for it to work. God totally blessed me and all my work was still there, even the file that i saved as it was shutting off the first time. praise God! He deserves all the credit for this save. anyhoo, i'd better go now. have a wonderful day y'all. i hope mine is too.
anyhoo, this story takes place last night between 8:30pm and 1:30am. i had been working on my powerpoint presentation and decided that my software flowcharts needed re-working. i saved them as jpg's and closed ms visio. unfortunately, i discovered that it cut off some of the flow arrows that i needed plus other mistakes. then i discovered that visio only opens jpg's as jpg's. duh. i couldn't edit them! so i had to start over. i had just finished with the second one and i clicked on save and my computer shuts off. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!! it rebooted and said there was an error with a driver. two minutes later, another spontaneous reboot. after the third i decided to boot in safe mode (without drivers and fancy extra stuff). the only way to fix it was to restore my system to an earlier point and i had never done this before so i wasn't sure what was going to happen. i didn't know if my files were still intact or if i would have to start all over from the very beginning after five hours of work. while it was restoring, i lay on the floor and prayed for it to work. God totally blessed me and all my work was still there, even the file that i saved as it was shutting off the first time. praise God! He deserves all the credit for this save. anyhoo, i'd better go now. have a wonderful day y'all. i hope mine is too.
posted by scott at 9:33 AM
5 Comments:
OHH that's a GREAT story!! a great reminder of how great and awesome God is and how He won't forget us, even in the littlest things.... what a GREAT GOD!!
Wow, cool story. A very true miracle. Isn't it frustrating when computers don't do what they're suppossed to?! Like Meg said... it's reassurring when God helps us out with the little things. If you had a mac, though, that probably wouldn't have happened at all... :-)
from a very loyal mac user,
taryn
if i had a mac, i'd have had to throw it out and get a new one.
Aww, your story sounds like a students worst nightmare times ten. And I'm going to have to agree with Taryn, that if you had a mac, it probably wouldn't have happened. ;)
from another very loyal mac user,
Kristi
well, i think computers are actually god. i mean they can do everything. they can punish you but also bless you ;)
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