In my haste to leave the house this morning, I threw my little black Vera Bradley cosmetic bag full of my USB flash drives on top of my laundry basket. When I finished dressing, I went downstairs, threw in a load of wash, grabbed my coat and went to grab the bag of flash drives and.....nothing. I felt nauseous and ran to the washing machine - where there, floating in suds, was my lovely bag of electronic devices. I pulled it out and emptied it on to a towel and fished out the four precious gadgets that held my work, home, backup, and miscellaneous digital treasures. I'm working on drying them out now - and thanks to the internet, I find I am not the first to do this. At least I caught them before they had been in there through the full wash, rinse and spin cycles. I won't know for a while if I've been successful. Meanwhile, the wait is making my brain go overtime with all the "oh I lost _____, and _____, and _____!" thoughts. I've got about 90% of it on a hard drive, either at home or work. But the 10% of confidential, sensitive, or long sought links, pictures, etc. could be gone. AAAAuuuuuughhhhhh!
I've been pricing replacements, which bothers me no end, but there are some funny new kinds out there could take the sting out it.
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