Forgetting Your Digital Wallet

Well, this entry is based entirly on me forgetting to bring my work-in-progress screenplay with me to Starbucks.

Apparently when I reformatted my laptop the other day and installed my screenwriting program specifically for this morning, I forgot to pull the script off of my external drive, which, of course, is at home.

So long gone are the days that actual physical objects are the only things of importance that can be forgotten in your other pair of pants or coat pocket. Obviously the time has come now where you can be equally as 'at a loss' as forgetting your wallet, as you can be with forgetting a digital file.

It's kind of ammusing actually. I mean, who would expect to hear something along the lines of "Oh, shoot, where's that excel document? I must have left it on my other thumb drive." *snaps finger in disappointment* "...Or maybe it's on my external."

Because, this is and must certainly be where the world is going, no? For myself personally, if I need to find a file it sometimes takes a while as I rummage through my two USB flash drives, two external hard drives, three computers and multiple partitions.

I suppose I can liken them each to a heavy, multi-pocketed coat from now on.

Who knew?