Like I said, I'm not going to go into any detail about how the data was lost this time. Let it suffice to say that my information retaining process was thwarted by events cumulating after a convergence of my dog, a bird, a backhoe across the street and a bowl of jell-o.
OK, not really. But what happened was very boring and should/would not have happened if several people (myself being the foremost of this several people) had been paying more attention to what was going on around them.