I was going through some old files and came across this. I thought you all would enjoy it!
NEVERMORE
Once upon a midnight dreary, fingers cramped and vision bleary,
System manuals piled high and wasted paper on the floor.
Longing for the warmth of bedsheets, Still I sat there, doing
spreadsheets:
Having reached the bottom line, I took a floppy from the drawer.
Typing with a steady hand, I then invoked the SAVE command
But got instead a reprimand: “Abort, Retry, Ignore.”
Was this some occult illusion? Some maniacal intrusion?
These were choices Solomon himself had never faced before.
Carefully, I weighed my options. These three seemed to be the top ones.
Clearly, I must now adopt one: “Abort, Retry, Ignore”.
With my fingers pale and trembling, Slowly toward the keyboard bending,
Longing for a happy ending, hoping all would be restored.
Praying for some guarantee, Finally I pressed a key –
But on the screen what did I see? Again: “Abort, Retry, Ignore.”
I tried to catch the chips off-guard. I pressed again, but twice as hard.
Luck was just not in the cards. I saw what I had seen before.
Now I typed in desperation, Trying random combinations.
Still there came the incantation: “Abort, Retry, Ignore”.
There I sat, distraught, exhausted, by my own machine accosted.
Getting up I turned away and paced across the office floor.
And then I saw an awful sight: A bold and blinding flash of light –
A lightning bolt had cut the night and shook me to my very core.
I saw the screen collapse and die. “Oh no – my database”, I cried
I thought I heard a voice reply, “You’ll see your data Nevermore.”
To this day I do not know the place to which lost data goes.
I bet it goes to heaven where the angels have it stored.
But as for productivity, well, I fear that it goes straight to hell.
And that’s the tale I have to tell. Your choice: “Abort, Retry, Ignore”.