It Figures

[kevin_standlee]

I travel heavy. Especially when driving instead of flying, where I have far fewer constraints on weight and bulk, I have a tendency to try and have backups for everything, usually due to past experiences where I needed it. That includes carrying a spare computer when I'm going to be working from Oregon, besides a clone of the work machine's drive made just before leaving on the trip. So of course on this trip, what should fail on me but one of the few things for which I didn't carry a spare. Due to a tendency to develop blisters on the bottom of my foot (particularly since I've started walking more often), I wear some relatively inexpensive foam rubber metatarsal pads that loop over the middle toe on each foot. They wear out after a few months, so I buy them in medium bulk. But I forgot to toss a spare set into my growing sack of stuff to carry Just In Case. Naturally, it was the toe loop on one of the pads that failed, so the pad will not stay in place. It's not quite annoying enough to justify a rush order to the supplier, but it's a minor hassle.

The way I keep accumulating things to take along makes me sometimes feel like I'm living in the world described in Take a Spare Truss. (It's a pity that none of the sites I searched for this had pictures of the cover or interior illustrations of this highly entertaining book about Victorian travel.)

Comments

[lisa-marli.livejournal.com]

My husband claims that when I travel I bring the Kitchen Sink (those handles catch on everything). But it is for the reason you state, nothing worse than something going wrong because you didn't bring something or something breaks.
I even bring a collection of tapes and clues. Hey, they came in handy when the Half Gnomes broke being transported to the AhwahneeCon party. Mini hot glue guns are nice, non-messy when packed away and mighty handy.
Don't carry a spare computer, but I do have a pda which has most of my data on it.

Foot blisters

[kb1cvh.livejournal.com]

Kevin -
If you are near one of the chain apothdcaries, perhaps a pack of Mole Skin or Mole Foam would suit you temporarily.

Hope to see you at Denvention 3.

73 de Peter