$500 on a bag. Yes, if it was saddle brown leather, of the perfect quality and softness, large and sturdy enough to function as a briefcase, laptop case, and/or overnight bag, and comfortable to carry, with a strap long enough to go across the body and also padded grip handles. A purse? Nuh-uh. I'd be thinking of all the rest of the stuff I needed I could spend $450 on after I bought a really well-constructed backpack or messenger style fabric purse.

I'm not very ornamentation-oriented, but I have one of the Fellowship cloak-clasp type pins

Fellow geek! Do you have a green wool Irish walking cape to wear yours on? I've seen the Galadriel ring, and I'm meh on it, but I'd love the Evenstar necklace. And I've had a want-it, want-it-not relationship with the Aragorn ring, until I realized that I really didn't want the ring, I wanted the hand that wore the ring, and everything attached to it. What I'd really like? Either the Elrond or the Galadriel tiara!

Not a bad story; great picture. Deb looks amazing. I'm very sorry I missed the show.

I think now that I'm dragging less stuff for Owen that it's time to switch from the diaper bag/backpack combo I have to a Timbuk2 messenger bag. I've had my eye on one. Maybe in the Spring.

We've achieved lunch but no shower. That's coming up next. Then the Venturing Out before the blasted rain comes back.

Deena, I have tape. If you can't get it from anyone closer, I can send it.

Deb looks fantastic! Yay!

Tep, I would be speaking of a bag-bag. I could never spend $500 on a purse, not even one from Kate Spade. I don't like purses that much, I just need one because so few of my clothes have pockets.

Yeah. Part of the Special Person tax...much more subtle than DWB. And don't get me started on the cab companies that want an extra $25.00 just to press a lift button. No, really don't. Unless you *dig* blistering rants andmaligning strangers' parentage.

Crap. I emailed the office, and the Director was the guy to address it to. They've also started interviewing. I'm going to have to get my stuff together and send as is, stat.

Dear Lord, erika, that's just... The fuck? Are these companies run by actual human beings? That's appalling.

Evil transport people. May they all have surgeries that force them to spend some time in wheelchairs.

By the way, Noah? Your Ark is in our company's parking lot, please get it out of there, the other boats can't get by. It's vampire-friendly levels of dark outside, and it should rain until it starts snowing again on Wednesday. Then the sun comes out and the temperature plummets. Winter in Utah.

Fellow geek! Do you have a green wool Irish walking cape to wear yours on?

I don't, I think that would be perfect. I wear it on a black leather jacket, which gets some attention, but it is usually the borderline geeks who comment. Serious geeks make eye contact and give a little knowing smile, but the "is that ... the pin?" comments are the most fun.

I'd love the Evenstar necklace.

I had to have the Fellowship pin. The phenomenon will pass, and stuff like that will become impossible to get again. The Evenstar I had to buy, even as a gift.

What I'd really like? Either the Elrond or the Galadriel tiara!

Hee. Those would be fun. I was just thinking that the occasions I'd have to wear something like that would be fairly limited, but of course that's not true.