Found jump drive -- Lessons Learned

1. Efforts to find jump drive: On Monday, leave work early; go to scene of the incident (cafe and market); ask staff about jump drive; look around; be annoying to other customers; put up flyers on bulletin boards, flyers include picture of lost jump drive, owner's first name, cell phone number, and email; walk home retracing steps of Sunday afternoon.

2. Ways to make peace with the loss: Eat veggie chips and ice cream for dinner, and spend evening reading a page-turner thriller, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Steig Larsson.

3. Random check/still obsessing: This morning look in all pockets of Patagonia fleece jacket, not the jacket worn on Sunday.

4. Discovery: Find jump drive in pocket!

5. Unresolved mystery: why oh why did I move the jump drive from its regular location (small pouch in purse) to a pocket of a jacket that I wasn't wearing that day? What was I thinking? (Obviously was not thinking at all.)

6. Lessons learned:

a) Label jump drives.

b) Do not put so much work on one jump drive.

c) Sign up for 2 GB free storage with mozy.org.

d) Buy external hard drive or new computer this weekend.

e) Password protect everything.