Man!! Dodged a bullet last night.
I normally write, leave. come back write a few ore words, leave again. But seldom do I think to click the "save" button. It never occurs to me, only rarely. I dont even reboot my laptop. Yesterday i wrote 2,400 words. And before i went to bed, i remembered to hit save. and thank god! When i got up this morning, my computer woke up out of sleep mode, and then instantly went into shut down mode to install those $$#^R&^%^* windows updates, lol. When it does that, it never warns me, nor does it ask if i have unsaved work to save. It just shuts down rudely.
So, long story short - i saved it and thankfully too, because i dont even remember what i wrote yesterday to retype it if i had to.
Lesson learned. sort of. i am sure to go back to my irresponsible ways again. one of these times I will not be so lucky.