Life Down Under

All in a Day's work, part dos

It has recently become clear to me that my earlier post about the whiteboard was more than just cute. Or an insight into my crazy life. Or, as Randy Bohlender accurately pointed out to me, a telltale sign that I am, without doubt, a visual learner. All this is true, but there is more. That post saved the day.

Not more than 48 hours after I posted a photo of the whiteboard (still proudly displaying our prayer room schedule), I had another meeting with our prayer room team. Towards the end of our meeting, there was a long pause of silence as we realized that although we saved the electronic version of the schedule on the laptop, and although the document was still present on the desktop, there was absolutely nothing but a blank white page staring at us when the document was opened. And we had erased the schedule off the whiteboard at the start of our meeting. We feared the worst; we had lost the schedule we had worked so carefully to construct. It would have to be re-created. We stared at each other, dumbfounded.

Until a little snicker emerged from the end of the table as I remembered the five (count them, five) pictures I took two days earlier as a memento to our newest piece of office equipment (with the blog in mind, of course). We all had a good laugh as I confessed to them that I actually took pictures of the whiteboard, but who's laughing now that we still have our original schedule intact?

Herein lies a great lesson that can be learned. Is is possible that the humble whiteboard could be more reliable than a computer?

Long live the whiteboard!