due to attention span issues, the following post will contain bullet pointed items ( Read more... )

It's been a while ( 5 years, about) since I made a spreadsheet to assist my bag shopping. So when I got the urge to buy a colorful summer tote, a brief survey of the market told me that there was too much information just to make a decision. I needed to bust out the spreadsheet.

Now, I know science now tells us that too many choices are bad for ( Read more... )

I had a pretty good weekend, despite the fact that I have been in a bit of a funk lately. I know the various reasons for this: me being lazy, feelings of inadequacy at work. It all comes down to that ( Read more... )

yes, i ended up choosing the timbuk2 bag, and i'm so happy. apologies to all of you who thought you convinced me to go with black, as you can see i emailed them right after i made my order and changed it to brown. now i'm going to go put things in pockets and pull them back out and decide where i want everything to go. i will also point out that i ( Read more... )

so, sometimes i am kind of anal about shopping. and i like to compare, although i don't always do this. and i am also fond of tables. so here is my table about bag comparison shopping. it's an exercise in online shopping, since i know that one cannot find all these bags in one place and fondle them, put your crap in them, see how they feel. if you ( Read more... )

i was sure tonight would involve almost no work, since last night was so work-heavy. i was hoping to chill out and get through my email, muse on LJ, meditate and the like; of course that's not happening because we've had three outages and there's supposed to be a huge network naming convention overhaul. i'm kind of cranky for no good reason ( Read more... )