I’m going to skip to the chase: I left my camera, a Canon 5D Mark II, and a Canon USM 17-40mm lens under seat 1A of Horizon flight 2609 PDX -> OAK yesterday. I’m busily trying to expand my professional and technical horizons at DrupalCon San Francisco at the moment, but I’m dolorously heartsick.

Lost and found operations at airlines and airports appear to be a 9-5, weekdays, kind of business. Apparently people don’t tend to lose stuff on weekends. So, I have left rather obsessive-sounding messages on various recorded lines, hoping that anyone, ever, will retrieve them. Twitter messages have been sent, web forms have been filled out (Thanks, Mr. Pencil!). All I can do is put my head in my hands and hope. I’m in an intensive all-day training now and don’t know when I’ll get the chance to continue on my search.

I have all sorts of good excuses about how this happened: bulkhead seating, my camera getting separated from the rest of my carry-on items by a helpful flight attendant named Cliff, a good conversation partner/someone I know next to me in 1B. But still. I feel like a daft moron.

Send your good thoughts my way. Please.

New Canon 5D Mark II, $2,700, 21.1 Megapixels, Full Frame Sensor, Anti Dust Technology, Shoots HD Video

(photo by Thomas Hawk).