29 Sep 2021

Checklists

TRAVELING

Add CHECK IN DATE to calendar!
Buy TRAIN TICKETS if any
- Plan for contingencies if I’m late
  - Flex ticket or whatever it’s called
- Is it the CORRECT AIRPORT?
Check my PLANS for the trip and PEOPLE there
- Recent birthdays?
- Planned special occasions?
- Any appointments HERE when I’m away?
Check relevant TAGS in taskwarrior
- +UA, +DE, +s
Check current CORONAVIRUS rules there and here?
Any DOCUMENTS for there/back that take time?
Need to REFILL any prescription medicines?
Expecting important POST?
Anything to eat before leaving?

START CHARGING:
- phone
- laptop
- headphones
- powerbank?
- fitbit
CHECK IN
- Download BOARDING PASS
- Note WEIGHT/size requirements
- Is the AIRPORT correct?
Download podcasts or movies?
Laptop:
- git push or backup:
  - Pages
  - DTB
- CLOSE programs before the battery does
- Small BACKUP to external drive?

Documents
- PASSPORT
- INTERNAL PASSPORT if needed
- AUFENTHALTSTITEL + Zusatzblatt
  - Valid?
  - B/W copy
- PROOF OF VACCINATION
- BANK CARDS
- Anything else needed there or on the way back?
- LEAVE any unneeded documents
  - Health insurance
  - Metro tickets
- Print BOARDING PASSES
  - Use the occasion to find and disconnect keyboard dongle
SIM cards
- Take BOX with them
  - $thing to change them inside
- CHARGE any SIM cards

KEYS for all potentially needed apts, both directions
- LEAVE unneeded keys
Clean:
- wallet
- backpack
MONEY
- Currency of both countries
- In hand luggage and packed if any
- 2x of what I plan to spend
Last time, what will be needed on the WAY BACK? (Docs/keys/…)

Toothbrush
- IF electronic - all needed BRUSHES
- IF trip is long - CHARGER
MASKS
- Some FFP2
- Standard “OP” (at least one)
HAND SANITIZER
MEDICINES
- The usual PRESCRIPTION stuff
  - HOW LONG will I be away?
- For the trip:
  - Something agaist NAUSEA
  - Atoxil / Eliminal / Sorbex
  - Painkillers

CHECK WEATHER at target point
- Take all needed layers
- If it’s cold - pants are more important than upper body
Polo with BREAST POCKET for passport/docs
Comfortable shoes
Belt
N underwear
N socks

LUGGAGE
- WEIGHT within limits
- Paper with date, flight, contact info
- Take PICTURES inside, outside
- Remove stray TAGS
ROOM clean
- Take away the TRASH
- Especially ORGANICS
Everything turned off
- WINDOWS closed
- Electricity off
- Things disconnected from sockets
- Water off
Go last time through stuff that was charging overnight
ESSENTIALS
- Passport + Aufenthaltstitel
- CORRECT TICKETS printed or downloaded
- Phone, phone charger, laptop, laptop charger

Pay more attention to what the losers do wrong as to what the winners do right