I find that as I try to get rid of stuff, I run into road blocks. I was cleaning out a stack of paper and found a flash card I wanted to send to a friend. Before I can send the card, I need to make sure it's erased. It doesn't fit in my current laptop, so I have to find my old laptop. I dug that out, but now I can't find the power cord! I've spent forty minutes on this and still have gotten nowhere -- and I've meant to send the card for about three years now. It's maddening!

This is the second time in two days that I have been unable to locate something I wanted, even after a lengthy search.