April 29th, 2005
bags and more bags
I think I’ve decided to get this bag for school. In the red-silver-red color combination. I know, it’s a messenger bag, and I want to save my back and all, but these messenger bags have the coolest feature—a back strap. It’s an extra strap that goes around your back and secures the bag to you, so it doesn’t flop around. I can only see that this would be helpful for my lower back and all.
Meanwhile, I will apologize now for what I’m sure will be a dearth of posting today and this weekend. For one thing, we’ll be entering radio silence sometime this evening when we dismantle the home network, and we’ll be offline until we can get everything set back up sometime tomorrow evening, after our cable has been turned on in the new place. I’m going to be a little wigged out without my always-on internet access, but I think I’ll pull through.
I’m trying to keep my eye on the prize through it all—this is just the first of many big steps we have to take so that we can get us some more book learnin’. I just have to suck up the inconvenience and stress for a couple more days and it will all be behind us.
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Timbuk II bags are great. I have one, but I found it on closeout from a reseller (in kind of ugly colors) for abotu $30. It’s one w/out a built-in laptop sleeve so I use a Marware Sportfolio as a laptop sleeve inside the messenger bag. It’s a little pricy, but if you ever find you just want to haul the laptop around outside of your regular bag, the Sportfolio has handles, a shoulder strap, and an external pocket for small items. It all works great.
Happy moving!!
I’m not a big fan of latches like those. I don’t think they handle the stress of carrying heavy stuff, but if there is a zipper there too, you should be ok. Just a thought.
Yeh, I’d hoped for a bag without the male-female latches (Tumi bags, for instance, have a magnetic close for their flaps), but this one seems to have a lot of redundancy built in with extra latches, zippers, reinforced seams, etc.
I’m going to go to a local store that carries these bags and try one on for size before I actually send any money, but I’m pretty sure this is what I’m getting.
The Boot
I just got back from a mini shopping spree. Bad. Bad. Bad. My first stop was the Apple store. I wanted to check out Kristine’s bag…