UGH! I just spent at least a half an hour typing in what I thought was an interesting dive story. I got timed out and lost it all because I didn't save it. That blows! I'll tell this story tomorrow.
If you write your story using Windows 'NOTEPAD' or similar software you can take all the time you want, you can even 'save' what you wrote and come back to it days later, then you can copy and paste it here on the forum...
Thanks for your sympathy people. You guys are the best. Guess I was tired and crabby at that point last night. I could have written it as a document, but I wasn't planning on it being anything major. I think I will now so that I don't lost it again, though. One story coming soon.
What I do as a hedge against the post timing-out is Ctrl+A to select all, then Ctrl+C to copy before clicking the post button. I also downloaded a clipboard manager kind of program, which automatically stores the last 100 items copied, so when researching or constructing posts and whatnot one can access whatever bits of info were stored in such a manner.