Ontheboatout

You should what's in my saddle bag!

Greenhill

A handful of donkey feed

Lorna_D

in my bag

wallet
pen
mints
sun glasses in stupidly large case
tissues
various out of date receipts from stores
lip balm
more lip balm
clinique lipstick (the only bit of make up I wear)
work keys
bills to pay
letter from U of R that I have to remember to reply to tomorrow, or the day after etc etc
small change floating about at the bottom
fluff
sand
my grandaughters headband that has been there since she left Canada in April
doggy poop bags
St Christopher
antacids
ventolin pump

thats just my work bag..................

zalaben

great post !

ok lets see

wallet containing $ 20.00 canadian and $12.00 US (left over from a trip to shop in Plattsburgh, NY in July).. not sure why its still there .. but will come in handy on my trip to Boston in october..

Hospital ID

A rather torn agenda

cell phone( or mobile if you prefer)

a pocket guide to treat certain wounds

a pile of Visa cheques that i never use

an addess to pick up my sons school uniform

a pocket reference guide to all medication known to man ..cant know them all by heart!

a letter from my sons school dated in July

a piece of paper with the school hours

1 lipstick

oh look . another pocket reference book to all medications known to man (ok I won that one in Nurses week)

1 lipstick

7 pens

1 MP3 player

1 ventolin aerosol to get me through my bout of bronchitis that i am currently being treated for

various amount of loose change in bottom of purse

matches( why, i dont know,.. dont smoke)

various store and parking receipts

a piece of paper from the City of Montreal saying that they had chashed my cheque for my illegal cut through Mc Donald to avoid waiting for the red light but as I paid late would I please send anoth cheque for $35.00 for late charges( who knew cops were at McDonalds at 11 pm?) ok sent a while back

thats it!

now that I have taken everything out I will do a massive clean up

Zoe Bell

ok desk drawer time

I have
a hairbrush
a pay slip
a jar of small change
contact lenses
lens solution
spare lens case
eye drops
tylenol
lip balm
face cream
body lotion
chocolate bar ( ooH had forgotten about that )
white board markers ( i am currently hiding them so that they don't get stolen)
crystal lites
a jar of forbidden candied pecans

dbd33

I'm not going to open my draws in front of this crowd but I forgot crucial objects in the car. Hats! One for each driver, to be worn with the top down or, with the top up in case of a desire to go at 20mph, swerve all over the road and make plain that there'll be no use of indicators by this vehicle.

Souvy

My desk drawer contains the usual jumble of software, cables, dead staplers, more memory sticks than I could ever need and various empty bottles that once held Tylenol and sundry blood-pressure/cholesterol pills.

For some reason, there is also a Pritt Stick. I have no idea why. I have never used or bought such a thing.

Tuppence

Wallet
Blackberry
Work ID
Network token
business card from moving company
A pen my late Dad gave me
Address book I've had since university - hideously out of date
contact lenses
Tide-to-go pen
notebook with grocery lists and train times
piece of paper with contact details of everyone I know, and my own address and phone number (cos I've just moved and can't remember any of it!)
bandaids (Dora the Explorer)
compact mirror (free from Red magazine years ago in UK)
Old business cards
iPod earphones
hair elastic (no, DBD, not a scrunchy )
lipstick and lipbalm
ziploc bag with baby wipes (for toddler cleanup emergencies - or mine!)


The car is pretty tidy:
toddler car seat
diaper bag
satnav
water bottle
extra baby wipes
bucket and spade in the trunk from Cobourg Beach BE meetup
Daughter's raincoat
sunglasses
about 6 Canadian Superstore reusable grocery bags

The4BellsLondon

oooh - I am in between bags as just got back off holibobs:

hmm - purse (sorry wqllet - with canadian and Uk cards and money and stuff)
I pod
Various Choreography notes for aerobics classes I teach
renewal reminder for CPR
Dog treats
pens
make up
tylenol
wet wipes
hairbrush
perfume
uk mobile
canadian cell
couple of string shopping bags
poo bags
various iced tea samples from gym
scrawled over class schedules for new timetable

dbd33

Oh yes, I have half a dozen of those in the car. They're all the same so I've stuck masking tape on them with the name of the company, the PIN, the userid and the password. If only callers from the outsourcers for those firms were able to convey the name of the firm they're representing I might be able to make use of them.

Zoe Bell

Wonderful security .

I know the feeling though , I once worked at a company that insisted on such a "strong" password that the only option I had was to write it down

Souvy

What are they?

dbd33

Tokens are a means of securing a VPN, the user has a physical device that generates a long number, when he or she connects to the VPN the number must be entered, usually preceded by a PIN and is matched to a number known to the VPN. They've rather gone out of fashion but some firms still have them.

My problem, and I'm not saying that this is my only problem in life, is that I tend not to use each one for a year or more. Then I get a phone call from India and need to connect to the VPN for the firm with the issue in order to see if something has gone wrong with the system. Since each firm has half a dozen assorted computers each with a different log on procedure, user id and password, I need that information, and the operating system name, documented somewhere; masking tape does it.

Atlantic Xpat

Gosh, I thought they were long dead. I recall having one to access the server at Ford in the mid 90's. At that stage everyone who wanted to get in needed them, not just the IT nerds.

dbd33

Typically, if the VPN requires a token, then every remote user of the intranet will have a token even for email and the like. That's a pita so I usually set up my email account to forward to an address outside the firewall.