In Which I Am A Model Of Grace

[abracanabra]

I put a thumb drive in my shirt pocket and head upstairs towards the computer. The cats are being needy, so I stop to feed them. As I am bending over the kitten's dish, the thumb drive slips out of my pocket and lands in the water dish. Crap! I fish it out and go downstairs to submerge it in the rice container.

Instead, as the pantry is dark and I am groggy, I put it in the flour. As soon as I realize I have, in fact, breaded the thumb drive, I jerk it back out. When I do this, I knock the cornstarch off the shelf and it lands in the kitten's downstairs water dish, spilling water all over. I pick the box up before any cornstarch spills. I dry off the box. I pull the thumb drive back out and blow the flour off as well as I can and put it in the rice container. Then I mop up the spilled water.

Now I just have to remember to take the thumb drive out so that I don't accidentally cook it along with the rice.

Comments

[cloudscudding.livejournal.com]

I figured better safe than sorry. I didn't realize it wasn't going to be very safe at all!

[utilitygeek.livejournal.com]

Understandable, but thumb drives tend to be rugged little buggers. As long as you don't break any of the connector points (usually where the USB plug attaches), they tend to keep chugging.

I had one go through the wash. Yes, washer, with soap, and the dryer. Not only did it still work (it's on my keychain right now), but I didn't lose any data. Rugged little thing, indeed.

[cloudscudding.livejournal.com]

Wow.