Losing it?

[Mock Turtle]

Seemed so for about a week but fortunately now found. I, like many no doubt, use small USB drives (thumbnail size) - to backup my essential data, daily usage, and where all passwords and other such personal data gets backed up too. I usually keep at least one of these drives in a less conspicuous place within the home so as to have at least some backup if burgled. I have to store the passwords on such since they are too complex to remember. I have used various password apps in the past but don't currently have one.

Anyway, I went to the place where this one was normally kept and it was not there! Oh hell! Why not and where might it be? I even suspected that I might have carried it out of the house in some manner and lost it on some street. Someone finding it might have made some use as much was not encrypted - the password stuff and bank details too - and no doubt it might have been traced to myself. Of course someone might have found it and simply returned it, but not guaranteed. I might have accidentally thrown it in the bin, and that might be less troublesome, given it was just one backup device.

I think this is a facet of old age too, since I suspected I had picked up the drive and done something else at the same time, despite any intent, and in the process I lost what happened to the drive. I looked for it as best I could whilst trying to think of all possible scenarios but failed to find it. So, I did the damage limitation - as much as I could - by changing most of the passwords that might have been problematic. But still waiting for the bad news.

Bliss arrived today when I accidentally spotted the drive on the floor - not anywhere expected - and possibly associated with an item I had moved recently. So, either as I suspected or some mouse or spider failed to get it back to its lair.

Is there a moral to this tale? Apart from not storing passwords and sensitive data on such drives - I suppose I could encrypt them - but one more password to remember. I do have online backups but not of the larger amount of data.

Small things are sent (meant) to try us?

Any tales to tell?

 

[Stevicus]

When I saw the thread title, I thought this might have been a discussion about a movie from 1982 with Tom Cruise.

It was a really bad movie.

 

[ChristineM]

We are, at the moment, a cereal bowl missing. No one admits to breaking it, and a fairly good search of all the usual places where impromptu breakfast is taken has not found it.
We are 5 in the family and currently only have 4 cereal bowls... So it's either toast for breakfast or i wash my cereal bowl before the hungry hoards awaken.

About 2 weeks ago my car keys disappeared. I have a little device on the keyring that sirens when i whistle or clap. Great for when i mislay them or for the children having fun in the supermarket. No amount of clapping revealed their location. Thinking they were lost until i found them three days later among the cats hoard of toys, the battery for the siren was flat.

 

[sun rise]

I thought sure this would be a political thread.

Yes as to the question. I have been known to call my cellphone in order to find where it had gotten put.

 

[PureX]

We are, at the moment, a cereal bowl missing. No one admits to breaking it, and a fairly good search of all the usual places where impromptu breakfast is taken has not found it.
We are 5 in the family and currently only have 4 cereal bowls... So it's either toast for breakfast or i wash my cereal bowl before the hungry hoards awaken.

About 2 weeks ago my car keys disappeared. I have a little device on the keyring that sirens when i whistle or clap. Great for when i mislay them or for the children having fun in the supermarket. No amount of clapping revealed their location. Thinking they were lost until i found them three days later among the cats hoard of toys, the battery for the siren was flat.

See, now, I would have suspected the cat right from the start! By far the most devious being is the house.

 

[PureX]

I lost things far more often when I was younger that I do now. But then I used to drink a bit.

 

[ChristineM]

See, now, I would have suspected the cat right from the start! By far the most devious being is the house.

Fluffy cat toys, feathers, dead snakes... Yes... but never have they stolen car keys before. My philosophy is, "you get one chance"... They've had their chance, i won't trust them next time

 

[Mock Turtle]

Well, there is one thing about getting old and previously being quite careful and never clumsy - one notices these small things almost immediately. I noticed my cycling days were over - the more hairy escapades - when I was obviously not so quick with my reactions whilst descending a steep hill some years back. And similarly, whilst out fell-walking, I began to have 'incidents', nothing too serious but which would not have happened years before. Since it was occurring whilst out on my own I decided to give that up too.

These current little annoyances seem to indicate I might be on the same path as my mother rather than my father. She ended her days with Alzheimer's, and four years earlier than his death. Oh well.

 

[ChristineM]

These current little annoyances seem to indicate I might be on the same path as my mother rather than my father. She ended her days with Alzheimer's, and four years earlier than his death. Oh well.

Damn, i hope not, get yourself checked out. They are drugs now that "may" help reduce and control the symptoms.

 

[Mock Turtle]

Damn, i hope not, get yourself checked out. They are drugs now that "may" help reduce and control the symptoms.

I don't think I have got to the stage where I might be assessed as vulnerable, but perhaps I'll research it. I have been trying to assess how my mum's dementia developed timescale wise. Like her seemingly being reasonably normal but cooking a dinner and then forgetting that she had done so, and so cooking another.