It's not the first time this has happened to me, where for some reason or another I've lost work on my computer.

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Though I had been blessed with consistent work, I lost my health insurance for the first time when I found myself undergoing my first major knee surgery five years ago.

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The emergency exits did not work, and then I lost my friend in the confusion.

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On the bright side, I have managed to produce a second child, work and have some amazing adventures - but I also see many lost hours spent endlessly repairing things.

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This is why I thought about Raymond Carver and his lost ode to work.

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As to the 150 developers who lost their jobs, my best wishes, and I look forward to seeing your work in a galaxy right here, sometime very soon.

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And the hundreds of thousands of construction workers -- many of them Latino -- who lost their jobs when the housing bubble burst, I want to put them back to work rebuilding our roads and our bridges and new schools and airports all across the country.

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In the nature of these investigations, causes all of the good work and all of the wonderful things that are accomplished to get lost, and I think it's worth this we take a second and say that we are impressed by the work force, we are impressed by the people, we are impressed by what NASA has accomplished.

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