THE Lowly Peon

Where is my Mind? 
04 July 2010, 11:21am

Took a quick trip with daisy this weekend to a Buddhist mountain called Putuoshan. It's an island in the pacific, near Zhongshan, home town of my buddy Integral. Apparently, I left my mind somewhere else.

I've been traveling for a while — at least once every two months for the last three years — so you'd think I'd have this stuff down. Instead, let's see all my goof ups:

• I forgot my iPhone/iPad/iPod charger. Fortunately, my super awesome girlfriend is also an iPhone addict, and had her charger.
• I forgot my spare battery for my Nikon d70s, and left it charging on my table in an obvious place so I wouldn't forget it. Oops. My battery died about halfway through the trip, making lugging my huge camera around somewhat meaningless.
• I took two pairs of pants, trying to always be prepared. They were cotton — a jump from my usual polyester — so I could be cool in the 100+ degree heat. I tried to climb up a big rock and because it was so hot, the sweat made them stick to my legs, and my pants split open, from bottom* to knee. I thought that only happened in the movies.
• On the day that daisy and I went for the longest hike, and spent nearly 6 hours going from temple to temple, I realized that I had completely forgotten my GPS unit. Let me be clearer: I didn't only forget to turn it on, like I have a million times, but I forgot the unit itself in the hotel safe.
• I forgot to take my umbrella, despite the weather forecast for heavy rain, because I was so focused on staying cool in the hot sun. Come 4pm, it rained the heaviest rain I've seen in ages, and we were stuck under a little bus stop shelter for nearly an hour.

I got home just recently, and was excited to look through the pictures I had taken. I then realized that my Aperture library — the application I use to edit and organize my photos — is gone, and the backup is on the Time Capsule that failed a few months back. Man, I'm really having an off week.

update
[05 July 2010, 10:50am]