Do You Know What Today Is…?

This morning I decided that I’d like a change of scenery to compose my daily posting.

On the way back from dropping my son off at school I stopped at my favourite coffee shop and treated myself to an Americano and a sausage sandwich. Deep joy!

I opened my iPad and spent the next half an hour writing a piece on the possibilities and opportunities presented by a blank day in my calendar.

All my work is autosaved to OneDrive – Microsoft’s cloud storage service. I pay money for this. And the rest of the Microsoft 365 Office suite. I have the Office apps on my laptop and on my iPad, and everything just syncs and consequently, wherever I am and whatever device I am using, I am always accessing the latest draft.

Except when it doesn’t work. And it is not often that it doesn’t work. But today was one of those days where it didn’t work.

Quite why my iPad, connected to wifi and with the Autosave on, didn’t save anything that I wrote at the coffee shop is a mystery. It certainly wasn’t anything to do with the coffee shop wifi (I know, because I was pulling up the internet while I was composing my piece).

Maybe it was something to do with a decades-old feud between Microsoft and Apple? Maybe it was a ghost (of Steve Jobs?) in the machine? Maybe it was another global Microsoft blue-screen-of-death outage?

Whatever the reason, when I got home and opened the file on my laptop there was only the title (that I’d written earlier this morning).

The title was oddly prescient.

“Do you know what today is? It’s an ‘anything can happen’ day!”