John B

Once in a while I answer something, sometimes after much thought, and when I click "Preview" it comes up that the question has been deleted. Or that YA is "down for Maintenance", or something. Why can't YA just take my answer and at least let me feel like my time hasn't been wasted. Couldn't there be (is there) a popup to tell one these things before one gets into a serious answer?

BEACH

I saw the Sun

rising

over the sand,

red-orange,

cloud barr'd.

vivid:

Shimmering in a tidal pool.

Glinting from the empty Beer cans.

Sparkling on the broken glass.

I watched gulls gliding

lazily

on the salt tanged morning breeze.

Landing gracefully at a trash barrel.

I heard them

crying,

with mournful sounding joy, at

the overflowing plunder.

The languid sea shimmers

with raimbow patterns as it

ooz's,

sluggish with its coating of oil, and

once living organisms.

The Sun,

climbing higher,

reveals an abandoned car

slowley rusting behind a dune.

Turning the sand

red.

I climbed the dune and passed an old campfire

encircled

by empty cans of Schlitz.

At the crest I sat

amid the sparse grasses -

watching.

At Noon, the sun, a brilliant yellow orb',

beat down, burning

without mercy.

Giving stark reality to all suroundings.

The wind is still,

the air hot,

heavy with moisture and

the putrid taste of rotting

flesh.

The ever moving Sea,

slowly eating away the shore,

is laden with bottles, and cans, and driftwood, and

Death.

As the Sun sets, the shadows

lengthen.

The rusting hulk sinks into darkness.

The cans, and bottles, and litter, cast shadows of their own

as they, too, fade into the night.

The Gulls,

gorged,

wing their way to roost.

The slivered Sun gives a final gleam,

sending red tinged rays

racing

into the darkness.

The stars are mirrored

in a tidal pool:

and, the Night enfolds

all.

sometimes typing the correction causes the next character or space to disappear. Then, when I try to replace that one, the next disappears, and so on. Anyone else have this problem, or know what to do about it - beyond not correcting the errors. Running XP, SP3 with IE7 and this has been going on for years. Just finally getting tired of it.

I have run virus scans and found nothing.

I can't upload, or delete a photo in My Profile. When I try I get either a 999 error message or I'm taken back to My Profile page - sans changes. Have tried this at all times of day and night with the same results.

When I try to access Yahoo photo gallery, I'm told access denied because I don't own the account??? Like to know who does.

I did diagnostics with my ISP & found no problems. Ran anti-virus, no problems. ran spyware check, no problems.

I have 2 computers. Win. XP. IE 7. on each. Anyone else having this problem