Laura gave me this idea and I gave it some thought. Just to present the scenario clearly, you wake up and there’s a fire in your room and you can only escape carrying one item, what would it be? My first thought was to eliminate everything materialistic. Books, clothes and basically anything that can be replaced by buying it. So then I thought, what can’t be replaced? People for one but I don’t really have anyone I’m responsible for so that’s out. When I was home for Thanksgiving we were looking through pictures of our youth and those are pretty much irreplaceable if it gets burned. You can’t recapture time. People in today’s age have such an advantage at safe keeping pictures digitally compared to physically. Fortunately I don’t have any physical pictures so nothing to worry about there. Back in college I used to burn porn onto a CD that would be valuable but with spankwire and tube8, there isn’t a need for that anymore. Then I thought if there was anything I was emotionally attached to like a lucky hat or favorite article of clothing and I couldn’t think of anything either because I don’t really believe in that sort of thing. Then it struck me, Gusto’s external hard drive with hundreds of gigs of music. Now of course if I know Gusto I can always get him to replace it but I would devastated if I had to listen to music like normal people. Every album by almost every artist and this turns into an unbelievable collection. I think it’s by far and away the most valuable item I have because of the time put into accumulating it. I feel like I might be missing something really major with this question but after this initial thought, that’s what I’ve come up with.