Life makes other plans

Well, I was planning on eventually transferring a lot the music I had accumulated on paper to PDFs so I could also have them available on my tablet, but life has dictated otherwise after I left my bag of music in my Minicon hotel room on Monday morning and the housekeeping staff deciding it was trash. I did find out it was picked up this morning by the garbage truck but it's extremely unlikely that my bright red "MPR: The Current" tote bag filled with sheets of music as well as three books of songs is now retrievable. I do have a call into Waste Management after they helped me track down the truck that picked up the hotel's trash (they do have a pretty good system for doing this) but I can't just walk into the collection facility and look for it for safety reasons and I don't expect I can ask them to do it either. If I don't hear from them by the end of the day I'll resign myself to my loss.

At least the hotel was honest about it, so I'm spared fretting about what might have happened to my bag o' tunes. I will ask to be compensated by the hotel for the three books as they're still in print, but the time and effort spent collecting around three hundred sheets of songs isn't so easily added up. I think I can remember about half of what I had anyway, and can reconstitute that much. And this time, I'm backing it all up, lesson definitely learnt.