What do you need to carry? A couple of those are too small for a laptop.
Handsome brooding vampire guy has to swoop in all sensitive mouth and overhanging forehead. How 'bout leaving some scraps for the homely-looking fellows who don't turn evil when they get some?
Doyle ,'Life of the Party'
Natter 70: Hookers and Blow
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
aurelia - Sep 01, 2012 6:38:56 pm PDT #20658 of 30001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
JZ - Sep 01, 2012 6:39:18 pm PDT #20659 of 30001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Unsurprisingly, I love #2, what with the black and the large mysterious key, but #s 3 and 4 look more Lee-ish.
So now you've got one vote for each of them. We're amazingly unhelpful!
Lee - Sep 01, 2012 6:40:39 pm PDT #20660 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
No laptop--just an ipad (or sometimes 2), plus the wallet, keys, phone etc.
Number 3 might be too small, but I do love it.
sarameg - Sep 01, 2012 6:41:45 pm PDT #20661 of 30001
I came within milliseconds of bailing on the night and am now glad I didn't.
Husband does improv locally and is also a green restoration contractor type. The house is so funky and wonderful. Several other single women (he kept saying "I invited my boys for you guys but none could make it. But it is my birthday, so this is AWESOME") he knows from improv, but of all sort of different backgrounds.
Massage therapist (who counts several Ravens among her cliental. She wants them to win because if they lose= more training, less downtime, she doesn't get appointments,) pysch intake person, my friend the CTY person, etc. Huh, I never got what the wife does and I spent a long time talking with her. Many varied and interesting conversations. And their needy cat glommed on to two of us and basically spent the whole time between us, getting pets until she passed out in overload.
And cocktails, which are my friend K's thing. She literally brought over a box of booze and simple syrups she'd made. My favorite cocktail was one that involved bourbon and gin (unsurprising that, but I'd never thought to mix them!) bitters, ginger and lime. Whoa. Suffering Bastard or something like that.
aurelia - Sep 01, 2012 6:44:08 pm PDT #20662 of 30001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
How do you want to carry it? That will determine what kind of strap/handle you want. I usually want the smallest and lightest bag I can get away with, but I'm sometimes standing with it draped over my shoulder for an hour or more in transit.
Lee - Sep 01, 2012 6:50:41 pm PDT #20663 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
I don't have to carry it much beyond to and from the car--I have a backpack for non-work use.
Atropa - Sep 01, 2012 6:58:17 pm PDT #20664 of 30001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Unsurprisingly, I love #2, what with the black and the large mysterious key, but #s 3 and 4 look more Lee-ish.
I echo JZ's votes. Including the love for #2.
Nora Deirdre - Sep 01, 2012 7:24:05 pm PDT #20665 of 30001
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
Ah, the Suffering Bastard. Has a long history!
JZ - Sep 01, 2012 7:24:15 pm PDT #20666 of 30001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Completely random: I just Googled "Saint Matilda" and found out that she is the patron saint of misbehaving children.
LOVE.
Cass - Sep 01, 2012 7:30:51 pm PDT #20667 of 30001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
I like 1 and 3 because they are simpler and would effortlessly go with anything. And I'd go 1 over 3 only because I am so damn sick of carrying my current purse on my arm. So, you know, unbiased.
sarameg, did you have book recs on learning the basics of DIY home stuff? Basics of plumbing and such? I need something like the Joy of Cooking for a house.