Passport

Because I’m an idiot I packed for Istanbul about ten minutes before getting into the car for the airport. I’m pretty good at this by now and as long as I have a laptop and an Internet connection when I travel I’m usually set. Seeing as the fuckwits at AirFrance managed to lose my luggage I’m glad I travel light, but this trip I forgot to load up the laptop properly . This meant that I only had a couple of movies with me and just enough music to get me through a long weekend. What if the terrorists strapped bombs to the UK and pushed it into the side of America while I was away?

My rule normally when travelling is to take enough digital media with me so that I can survive away from home indefinitely. It all worked out in the end. Despite parts of the country flooding while I was away, London survived and I picked up another copy of A Bittersweet Life while I was out there. Some people buy carpets in Istanbul - I buy cool-as-ice Korean revenge movies. This was a nice movie to fly back on as it counterbalanced watching Alain Delon in Un flic on the way out.

All of this is a long winded build up to the fact that this week I bought a new hard drive. This one.

It’s small, sexy and (now) filled with evil. Never again will I travel without a copy of William Shatner’s Kingdom of the Spiders or Special Agent Dale Cooper’s Twin Peaks Tapes or indeed my beloved Telly Savalas album (the ‘music’ that must never be played).

I sleep easier with this knowledge.