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Packing...
Jan. 6th, 2008 04:05 pmI've put a lot of effort into the rigmorole of packing over the last few years. I wouldn't use the label "road warrior" necessarily, it's just there's a lot to pack and getting it all sorted has taken a long time, especially if you want to be able to carry the damn bag at the end of it.
I'm off to CES (Consumer Electronics Show) at OH MY GOD HOW EARLY clock tomorrow morning, so I'm slowly trying to muster my thoughts around what to take and how to take it. It's business and we've some high level meetings with a range of people, so I'll be able to opt for the simple suit with casual shirt option which works in most places. Naturally I'll pack evening clothes but I do this with the full knowledge that I'll probably not have a chance to get back to my hotel and change. This also being CES with an estimated 140,000 attending I'm in a convenient hotel for the Exhibition Centre but, alas, a cheap one. I have stayed in the cheap hotels in Vegas, and I've stayed in the expensive. Frankly, skip the cheap ones if you actually expect to use it.
Clothes packing is never much of a problem really. Changes of underwear, the gym kit I'll not get around to using, my plastic baggie of carry on quality toiletries including the "special" deodorants that don't work but do give me a nice set of blocked pores. some shirts and a change of trousers. It's 10C there at the moment so I can skip the pool wear.
The harder part is what to get into my "laptop" bag.
There's the laptop, I sport a nice Sony Vaio TN1 weighing barely a kilo with, even after 2 years, a 6 hour battery life. It is, without a doubt, the best laptop I've ever had. The 70W Kensington multi-way adapter is also another must; handling charging for the laptop, phone and iPod, it also comes with UK and EU adapters. A multi-way adapter lives in the bag too. iPod, I got a Touch for Christmas which is shiny and nice and will mean that I can avoid the horror that is in-flight movies. (I'll write on that another time. You know you travel too much when you know which parts of which movies you can watch over and over again.)
The Bose noise canceling headphones are next. A must since I discovered how much of the aircraft background noise they really cut out. Even now that some airlines are giving them out in Business Class, I've found that my own pair are better.
I have a small wash bag from Japanese "item" specialists Muji which holds all the various cables and assorted items I need for travel; micro bluetooth optical mouse, micro-4 way USB hub, assorted cables and adapters, memory sticks and cards, spare business cards and a handy pocket for receipts.
More Business cards in the laptop bag, passport, printed documents for the journey, emergency book for if all else fails. An old BA business class onboard bag containing an eye-mask, ear plugs and an emergency toothbrush/toothpaste set. That's pretty much it.
All in the bag, at 4.30am tomorrow I can heft it onto my shoulder and very, very slowly topple over.
No wonder my Osteopath moans at me.
I'm off to CES (Consumer Electronics Show) at OH MY GOD HOW EARLY clock tomorrow morning, so I'm slowly trying to muster my thoughts around what to take and how to take it. It's business and we've some high level meetings with a range of people, so I'll be able to opt for the simple suit with casual shirt option which works in most places. Naturally I'll pack evening clothes but I do this with the full knowledge that I'll probably not have a chance to get back to my hotel and change. This also being CES with an estimated 140,000 attending I'm in a convenient hotel for the Exhibition Centre but, alas, a cheap one. I have stayed in the cheap hotels in Vegas, and I've stayed in the expensive. Frankly, skip the cheap ones if you actually expect to use it.
Clothes packing is never much of a problem really. Changes of underwear, the gym kit I'll not get around to using, my plastic baggie of carry on quality toiletries including the "special" deodorants that don't work but do give me a nice set of blocked pores. some shirts and a change of trousers. It's 10C there at the moment so I can skip the pool wear.
The harder part is what to get into my "laptop" bag.
There's the laptop, I sport a nice Sony Vaio TN1 weighing barely a kilo with, even after 2 years, a 6 hour battery life. It is, without a doubt, the best laptop I've ever had. The 70W Kensington multi-way adapter is also another must; handling charging for the laptop, phone and iPod, it also comes with UK and EU adapters. A multi-way adapter lives in the bag too. iPod, I got a Touch for Christmas which is shiny and nice and will mean that I can avoid the horror that is in-flight movies. (I'll write on that another time. You know you travel too much when you know which parts of which movies you can watch over and over again.)
The Bose noise canceling headphones are next. A must since I discovered how much of the aircraft background noise they really cut out. Even now that some airlines are giving them out in Business Class, I've found that my own pair are better.
I have a small wash bag from Japanese "item" specialists Muji which holds all the various cables and assorted items I need for travel; micro bluetooth optical mouse, micro-4 way USB hub, assorted cables and adapters, memory sticks and cards, spare business cards and a handy pocket for receipts.
More Business cards in the laptop bag, passport, printed documents for the journey, emergency book for if all else fails. An old BA business class onboard bag containing an eye-mask, ear plugs and an emergency toothbrush/toothpaste set. That's pretty much it.
All in the bag, at 4.30am tomorrow I can heft it onto my shoulder and very, very slowly topple over.
No wonder my Osteopath moans at me.
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