I went on a trip earlier this week for a few days, and 
foolishly forgot my laptop's power supply at the hotel. I 
was in town the entire day after checking out, but they 
didn't bother calling me; I called them and they said "Yeah, 
sure, we have it, where can we mail it?" I understand that 
it's my responsibility to take care of my things, but they 
really could have called me before I left town...

In any case, I will now be using a different machine while I 
wait for the power supply to be mailed. Not a big deal, 
except that I haven't been keeping my other machines up to 
snuff. The machine I'm typing on now is a ubuntu machine, 
and I haven't updated it it in long enough that the distro 
is no longer supported. That would be OK, but I need to 
install one tiny piece of software, and I can't do that 
until I upgrade the distro.

Of course, the only internet I have right now is on my 
phone, and I don't want to waste it on upgrading a whole 
distro. I could just download and compile the software, but 
this computer is also very space-limited, and doesn't have 
the necessarily tools and libraries to compile what I need.

So, I'm at the library, using their slow wifi to upgrade this 
system. That, and a tiny amount of bandwidth for this 
session to SDF.

The life lesson here is: try to be more adult-like, and 
remember to take your things with you when you leave the 
hotel.