What’s in your laptop bag?

Being an IT consultant, I spend a lot of my time on the road. Now, now, before you start getting grandiose ideas of me living the jet setting lifestyle, unfortunately I have never seen the inside of the business class cabin of an airplane. I have, however, been to exciting places like Burgess Hill or Wandsworth Town. Fantastically exciting places if you are one of those people who find New York and Paris, just a bit too much. And of course I have the pleasure of doing all this travel sitting on my very own seat on a train carriage.

Anyway, back to my point. As an IT consultant, I spend a lot of my time on the road. As such, the contents of my laptop bag are essential.

The contents of my laptop bag...

So let me give you a quick tour:

• My spanking brand new Wenger Laptop bag. Retail was £65. Amazon? £25. Hahaha… only suckers pay retail!
• Ultimate Ears iPhone Headset. Love the sound on these things. Has passive noise isolation. Great for my crappy train rides.
• Trusty iPhone. Love it.
• 250GB portable HDD in grey sock. Has work related Virtual Machines.
• 250GB portable HDD in blue sock. Has work related documents. And sometimes movies to help me while away the time.
• Nokia phone charger cause I spend all my time on phones.
• Mouse. Just cause I hate working on a touch pad for hours at a time.
• iPhone charger. Simply because the iPhone has a crappy battery.
• Jawbone Bluetooth headset. So I can type and talk at the same time.
• Dell battery charger.
• Little umbrella. Because I live in London. Enough said.
• Jawbone charger. Cause I spend so much time on the phone that my bluetooth headset needs to be charged as much as my phone does.
• Shoeshine kit. I stole this from a hotel. Gotta to keep my shoes clean.
• Name cards. I try to give these away at bars but all the women just throw them back at me.
• My own coffee. My client sites all have horrible coffee.
• Hob Nob biscuits. I start really early and end very late. So the biscuits keep me going.
• 3G USB kit. Need to be able to get online from anywhere. And by anywhere I mean big cities. Because the UK 3G network is pretty crappy.
• Earl Grey tea. Stole that from another hotel. I don’t drink tea. I’m just a bit of a klepto.
• Tissues. Gotta blow my nose. It’s flu season.
• Mints. Can’t be having coffee breath.
• Pens. Only one is my own. Stole the rest.
• Of course my brick of a laptop. The trust DELL Latitude D820. Weighs a ton. And a half.

So there you go. A glimpse into my life. In fact this is what I’ll be carrying in the morning.