On the up-side of things, USB external hard disks are very nice. Last Saturday morning while packing I had the bright idea of tossing one of the USB drives that I use for backups in the bag along with the transistor radio and the DVD wallets. That meant that I had all of my MP3s (hoot!); a place to put a backup of the digital pictures coming off of our camera onto the laptop; and copies of my gaming files when Asha asked me to run a solo session for her. The latter was tempered by the fact that the backup was a month old and didn't have some recent work that I'd done, but the concept was well proved (and the game went well). Next time I'll take a snapshot of the server the night before we leave.
All-in-all, the week in Wellfleet was a good one for tech. Verizon's cell service was strong, the MP3s were a blessing, and the DVDs were a good diversion on those couple of nights when we both decided that we simply were not going anywhere. Oh, yes, and GPS freakin' rocks. There is still something magical to me about watching a trail of little green dots march across a map saying you are here, then looking out the window and seeing that, yes, here I am! Complete FM.
