Argh! I mislaid my laptop.

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Getting ready for work this morning, and gosh-- my laptop is nowhere to be found.

It slowly dawned on me that I left it at the sushi place on the corner last night. Sometimes I stop there on my way home to get an order to go, and have a beer while I’m waiting.

The wait was a little longer than usual, last night. (Usually, my order is ready a bit before I finish the beer.) This time, I finished my beer and sucked every last drop out of the local free weekly newspaper. I had replaced the newspaper and was walking my empty glass back to the server when she appeared with my order, and so I completely flaked and walked out the door without going back to my seat to retrieve my laptop.

Didn’t twig at all until this morning. Now I am freaking out, waiting for the place to open up, hoping against hope that it has been set aside for me and that I didn’t brighten some unscrupulous person’s day with my carelessness.

I keep going over the probabilities in my head – on the one hand, I think there’s a pretty good chance that a staff member would see it before anyone else did. That’s heartening. On the other hand, seeing as I was waiting for a “to go” order, as usual I sat at the bar, in the one seat that is closer to the door than every other seat in the joint. :smack:

As if I weren’t anxious enough about the simple loss of the laptop (which is actually the property of my employer,) at the moment it contains a nearly-complete project I was working on for our new website, and the deadline that I was given for it was… the end of the day, today. Luckily, I have most of the source material elsewhere, but the actual project files… no.

So I’m sitting here waiting for them to open (an hour from now) to see if I can pick it up and get my ass in to work, or if I’m going to have to come back home and finish the project here and hope to hell that I can get it done by 5:00.

This is the biggest f-up I have made in years. I literally feel sick about it. Damn it!

pleasepleasepleasepleaseplease

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Sit down. Look down.

You’re welcome,

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Careful, I’m on the lookout for someone to transfer all of the pent-up anger that I have for myself to. :smiley:

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Fingers crossed for you, Larry.

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Made that last post, figured it might be worth trying before their actual opening time, walked across the street, picked it up, and I’m back.

Whew!

I guess I get to keep my job. :smiley:

Chair opens the floor to any similar anecdotes, with or without positive denoument.

Chair then takes a deep breath and rushes his late ass out the door, with barely time to apologize for a lame thread.

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And let this be a lesson to you that when you’re working on a really big project have a back up copy on the corporate server somewhere or on your thumb drive or on CD just in case your laptop is lost, stolen or eaten as sushi.

Glad you got it back.

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I can clearly remember leaving my laptop case at the ticket window of the local train station and getting nearly half a block from the building before I twigged that something was wrong. I suppose it was when I was commuting into Toronto for Herzing college - I’d had my first computer of my very own, a compaq laptop, for a bit over a year, was relying on it to keep myself amused over the long trip, and was starting to take it a bit for granted I guess. I usually carried a backpack as well as the school-issued briefcase, which was what I carried the actual computer around in.

Luckily, the bag was still there when I rushed back into the Hamilton GO center concourse, and the ticket lady even joked with me a bit as I scooped it up.
:slight_smile:

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The sad irony of it is that I’m the network administrator, and no one sings this song as loudly or as frequently as I do. Everyone has their folder mapped as a network drive, and I am constantly giving this lecture.

However, my workfiles are laaarge and I’ve been running into trouble with the file server’s contents getting too large to get a good backup on every night, so I kept them local. And yes, as I look down at my desk I’m looking at the 1TB external drive that sits on my desk and never gets plugged in because my laptop’s two USB ports are used up by a standard keyboard and mouse when I’m in the office. I think today I’ll pick up another USB hub. :smiley:

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I, too, lost my backpack…with my work laptop in it. I got off the train to go home carrying my extra bag and recalled that I needed my regular bag to have an extra bag. As the train pulled away in the distance, I tried to figure out my next move. I called the rail service to see when this train turned around and headed back through our station, but they were unable to figure it out. I should have figured it out, since I later discovered that my bag had rolled right through my station again untouched (still under my seat). I got a call the next day from a guy who found it and took it home. I went and picked it up and offered a reward but it was refused. Nothing in the bag was missing. I’m not sure why he didn’t turn it in to lost and found.

I don’t buy lottery tickets any more, I used up my luck on that one.
Last night I took a radio back to the electronics store to have it fixed (replaced). I had to call a centralized number to have it taken care of, and went to buy a new cell phone. While at the counter I put down my working but defective unit and promptly left it there. When I got home my wife discovered the error and I had to rush back to retrieve it. Fortunately it was not busy at the store and it was where I had left it.

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Some of you know that my laptop was stolen right out of our campaign office five days before election day last year.

LEAST CONVENIENT POSSIBLE TIME.

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Damn, I was all ready to make a “your Name is Mudd!” joke. Glad you found it.
I did manage to leave my work laptop at home once. I now put it in front of the door when I’m done with it. Or tie it to my purse, as just putting on my purse on top of it is not enough reminder for my slow-waking brain.

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I once put my laptop bag in the trash and it was picked up

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!

How did that happen? Did you ever recover it?