Here's the sad tale of my lunch hour today. I was trying to copy a huge chunk of data from a Powerbook to a desktop computer. On the order of 8 GB of data. My options were: (1) copy the data over the network to one of our workstations and from there to the desktop computer or (2) copy directly from the laptop to the desktop. Option #2 was much more appealing because option #1 was gonna take several hours. It would also set off the inevitable alarms over at UT's network center as our network traffic jumped an unexpected 16 GB (8 from the laptop to the workstation and a second 8 from the workstation to the desktop machine). Alas, I had no firewire cable to use for option #2. I called around. Nobody else had one. So, I decided I'd hop on home during my lunch hour and grab one I've got at home. As I headed home, it dawned on me that I could just stop at Office Depot and buy one more quickly. So, I tried that. No go. They didn't have any firewire cables at all. None. So, I stopped in at Radio Shack. While they did have firewire cables, they didn't have any 6-pin to 6-pin, which was the kind I needed. Naturally. So [sigh...] I headed on home. I passed a couple of fast food joints along the way and thought about pulling in to grab some food. But, I kept thinking of the lunch I'd prepared this morning sitting in my backpack back at the office. And, I ignored the impulse. I got home, ran in, grabbed the cable, and left. I was fairly hungry by now but decided that there really was no point in wasting the lunch in my office so I went straight back. 'Got to work, attached the computers and started the file transfer. Once that was going smoothly, I grabbed my backpack. Alas, no lunch. I apparently forgot to put it into my backpack after putting it together. What a basket case, eh? I walked by that lunch bag while going into and out of my house when I retrieved the cable. I didn't notice it, though. The receptionist sent out a note this morning about free cookies and muffins being available in the copy room. So, I went down there, found a banana nut muffin, and had that. Not nearly as good (or good for me) as my planned lunch. I shoulda just stopped at Wendy's, eh?
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