New bag!

Alas, commuting has taken it's toll on my wheelie bag. For a week or two I had started noticing that my laptop case was looking a bit dusty. I just thought it was my DIY lining on the inside of my wheelie bag coming off. Turns out there was a huge hole at the bottom of the bag near one of the wheels. I had been dragging my laptop along the floor all this time!!!!!!!!

I have since gotten a new one and it is no way as good as what I had - the compartments are too small, I have to put my lunchbox in sidewards, and I can't haul shopping in it either. The upside is that it is designed to hold a laptop so it is all protected, and the wheels are a bit bigger.

Maybe I should ditch it and go more high-tech - there are now bags you can get with solar panels that can generate energy to charge up your laptop (check out Voltaic):

Pretty cool no? Now if only it had wheels and I could haul shopping with it that would be great!

Bags on wheels!

Bags, bags, bags. Everyone knows how much a girl loves bags. I got two that I take to and from work. The second one isn't by choice really. When I started my job the boss told me that they didn't have any office computers. In fact they didn't have anything so I had to bring my own pens, pencils, note pads, tape, gluestick, staples, paper-rock-scissors and get a laptop - fast. The cheapest laptop had all the basic specs I needed but weighs a ton. As I wasn't going to leave my purchase in a place frequented by opportunist drug addicts I needed a mode of transport for my laptop that allows me to keep my posture, muscle tendons and good temperment intact while lugging it to and from work. So all hail the wheelie bag! The saviour of commuting souls. The all faithful container of workstuff, lunch and other personal items. The epitome of convenience. I can't harp on about it enough!

Necessity is the mother of all innovation. I don't know much on the history of the bag or the wheel so I will say this: I love the guy/girl who invented the wheel! I love the girl (it has to be) who invented the bag! I love my wheelie bag! :D

What I would look like if my bag didn't have wheels (image by Thiago Piccoli)

Going somewhere?

Everytime I go in or out of work I get asked the same sort of question - "are you going somewhere nice/for the weekend?" or "have you just come back from the weekend/somewhere nice?" The answer to these is - no! Haha! I am going to or just leaving work.  Nothing too exciting, but since my bag is a rucksack/wheelie bag it does look like I am forever travelling.  Oh I wish I was ;)