When I to my work, I always take my private laptop along with me. It is for me the way to keep in contract with all my friends who live is so many places. I don´t want to use the company equipment and Internet connection for that.
This morning while getting out of the train, it felt of suddenly as my laptop-bag that was hanging on my shoulder slipped a bit down. Which was weird. A little check showed that the strap on which the bag was hanging over my shoulder was a torn a bit at the connection point to the bag.
My decision was fast. The risk of my laptop falling was not one that I wanted to take. So today after work, I went directly to the shop centre of Hoofddorp to buy a new laptop bag.
Funny enough I bought exactly the same that I already had. And why not, I was always very happy with it and it is of the very good brand Samsonite.
The fact that the laptop bag I had was of this well known brand, makes it rather likely that I well get the bag (partly) paid back. Specially when you know that I bought the bag where my parents already were customer and Marion (and her parents) are no strangers there as well.
Well and while I was in a shopping mood, I also bought a external hard disk of 1 TerraByte. A nice fast one from Seagate. Imagibne….1 TerraByte! My very first hard disk was 20 MegaByte….
To make it all complete I had a nice mixed grill at the JR Corner in Hoofddorp. Another nice evening spend 
Rob, that bag was a present from me when you bought your laptop. So when you get no repayment for that bag (it really should not be damaged like this after a year), I will repay it to you…. it was my gift. But it also means that I will have a talk with owner of the shop were we bought it!
I saw the menu of the place where you had that mixed grill. It has some interesting things on it. Maybe we can go there somewhere in the future
Imagine, your new terrabyte HD has about 200GB overhead which it cannot use…… And it’s cache will probably be as large as your first harddisk
You should not be too harsh about your laptop bag. It has traveled a lot. knowing that you always take your laptop to work, and to amsterdam and haaksbergen. that is a lot of stress. (not only for the bag. But also for its owner…… ;P )