icarus | Shout out for a Beta

singtoangels has been a doll helping with the Percy Ficathon site. So she asked me if I could find her a beta for her story.

Well, I couldn't find one right away, so darn it, I volunteered to do it myself.

I am cursing up a storm right about now.

I stayed home from school today, as I have an all-day conference on Saturday and a group project meeting on Sunday. I relaxed this morning by going through her story with a fine-toothed comb. Now, I'd only saved it to the Temp folder, but I just stepped away for a bit because WG wanted to check his email. Of course he took over. All I asked was that he not close any of my files.

Yahoo was running a bit slow, so he closed some programs.

Including the story.

It's gone. I searched with Explorer and all I find is a broken shortcut. I've checked the Temp files, everything. It's vanished.

I've used up my allotment. I don't have any large patches of free time until Tuesday afternoon. That's why I took today off. Hell.

I'm going to take another shot at finding

singtoangels a beta.

Would anyone like to beta her story?

There were no SPAG errors, and only a few word recommendations. Everything I wrote had to do with clarification, story development and characterisation. She's the same person who wrote Idyllic Days for the Percy Ficathon.

Now tonight WG and I are going to review the basics of Microsoft Word 101: Saving Files, because this is not the first time. Though this is partially my fault. I popped it open and started typing instead of saving it first.