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jenettWelcome to our fifth salon discussion thread. Wander in, invite a friend to come along, and chat! (Not sure what's going on? Here, have a brief FAQ.) The first three went wonderfully - you can find them in my salon tag. Please take a quick look at the reminders at the bottom of this post, too.
Topic of the day: What do you have in your pocketses? Or to be more useful, what stuff do you carry with you? I ask partly because I want to talk about what I have with me, but also because I'm contemplating being more systematic about some of it, and I suspect you all will have interesting ideas.
My usual bag is either a backpack (if I'm walking to work) or a small messenger bag. (My backpack is Tom Bihn'sSynapse 19, and my smaller messenger bag is their Medium Cafe bag. They wear amazingly well, come in nice colours, and have pockets and interior design that make me immensely happy. I own various others from them.)
What I usually have in my pockets at the moment is my keys (work key, house key, car key, car key fob) in the left, and my iPhone in the right. What I usually have in my bag is my asthma inhaler, a pen, and a few other minor things.
I'd like to do better. Things I'm currently contemplating include:
* Minor first aid kit (ibuprofen, several sizes of things to put on cuts or blisters, etc.)
* Whether I want to get some sort of pocket tool. In specific, the thing I need most and don't always have handy is stuff for opening computer cases/removing components. (And, y'know, in case of zombie apocalypse or getting stranded in back woods rural highway, a small knife blade and scissors and such wouldn't exactly be a *bad* idea)
* A small actually useful sewing kit (which probably means putting it together myself. because the pre-made ones never make sense to me.)
* Some combo of other useful self-care stuff. (Portable "I need food" object? I usually have a water bottle with me.) Lip balm. That kind of thing.
* A USB with useful stuff on it. (I have been creating one of these for work, with things I use all the time, but I could probably stand to have a personal one.)
Music in the background: I am very much about the comfort listening this week, which lead to my creating a playlist of Enya and Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition and Yo-Yo Ma playing Bach cello suites. (Look, I'm a person whose comfort reading has long included Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited. I never claimed to be normal about these things. Whatever normal is.)
Other possible topics: (plus whatever you suggest!)
* The annoyances of weather. (Weather is my current most annoying migraine trigger: it threw me for a loop Monday. I am still cranky.)
* Ways you make things like waiting for laundry at the laundromat or waiting for car repairs more enjoyable. (Guess what I'm doing this week.) Both places are noisy enough that complicated reading is not generally viable. Neither place has wi-fi, so if I want Internet, I am limited to my phone, and neither has a table, so I can't type easily. And neither has somewhere near enough by I could go grab coffee and sit there instead.)
* Nifty things you have read/watched/listened to this week/month/year and why we ought to check them out.
Quick reminders
- If you want to post anonymously, please pick a name (any name you like) that we can call you - it makes it more conversational and helps if we have more than one anon post.
- Base rule remains "Leave the conversation better than you found it, or at least not worse". If you're nervous about that, I'd rather you say something and we maybe sort out confusion later than have you not say something. (People here have been excellently friendly and helpful so far.)
- I am still working on finding the balance on how much I talk vs. how much other people talk, so I am sometimes taking a bit before I reply to things. (An hour or two, usually.) Also, it is a slow brain week for me, please excuse.
- The FAQ still has useful stuff, but I have not added to it recently.
- Comments tend to trickle in over the course of a day or two: you might enjoy checking back later if you're not tracking the conversation.
Topic of the day: What do you have in your pocketses? Or to be more useful, what stuff do you carry with you? I ask partly because I want to talk about what I have with me, but also because I'm contemplating being more systematic about some of it, and I suspect you all will have interesting ideas.
My usual bag is either a backpack (if I'm walking to work) or a small messenger bag. (My backpack is Tom Bihn'sSynapse 19, and my smaller messenger bag is their Medium Cafe bag. They wear amazingly well, come in nice colours, and have pockets and interior design that make me immensely happy. I own various others from them.)
What I usually have in my pockets at the moment is my keys (work key, house key, car key, car key fob) in the left, and my iPhone in the right. What I usually have in my bag is my asthma inhaler, a pen, and a few other minor things.
I'd like to do better. Things I'm currently contemplating include:
* Minor first aid kit (ibuprofen, several sizes of things to put on cuts or blisters, etc.)
* Whether I want to get some sort of pocket tool. In specific, the thing I need most and don't always have handy is stuff for opening computer cases/removing components. (And, y'know, in case of zombie apocalypse or getting stranded in back woods rural highway, a small knife blade and scissors and such wouldn't exactly be a *bad* idea)
* A small actually useful sewing kit (which probably means putting it together myself. because the pre-made ones never make sense to me.)
* Some combo of other useful self-care stuff. (Portable "I need food" object? I usually have a water bottle with me.) Lip balm. That kind of thing.
* A USB with useful stuff on it. (I have been creating one of these for work, with things I use all the time, but I could probably stand to have a personal one.)
Music in the background: I am very much about the comfort listening this week, which lead to my creating a playlist of Enya and Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition and Yo-Yo Ma playing Bach cello suites. (Look, I'm a person whose comfort reading has long included Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited. I never claimed to be normal about these things. Whatever normal is.)
Other possible topics: (plus whatever you suggest!)
* The annoyances of weather. (Weather is my current most annoying migraine trigger: it threw me for a loop Monday. I am still cranky.)
* Ways you make things like waiting for laundry at the laundromat or waiting for car repairs more enjoyable. (Guess what I'm doing this week.) Both places are noisy enough that complicated reading is not generally viable. Neither place has wi-fi, so if I want Internet, I am limited to my phone, and neither has a table, so I can't type easily. And neither has somewhere near enough by I could go grab coffee and sit there instead.)
* Nifty things you have read/watched/listened to this week/month/year and why we ought to check them out.
Quick reminders
- If you want to post anonymously, please pick a name (any name you like) that we can call you - it makes it more conversational and helps if we have more than one anon post.
- Base rule remains "Leave the conversation better than you found it, or at least not worse". If you're nervous about that, I'd rather you say something and we maybe sort out confusion later than have you not say something. (People here have been excellently friendly and helpful so far.)
- I am still working on finding the balance on how much I talk vs. how much other people talk, so I am sometimes taking a bit before I reply to things. (An hour or two, usually.) Also, it is a slow brain week for me, please excuse.
- The FAQ still has useful stuff, but I have not added to it recently.
- Comments tend to trickle in over the course of a day or two: you might enjoy checking back later if you're not tracking the conversation.
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Date: 2013-07-03 01:35 pm (UTC)Purse with wallet, keys, small bag of things I need to carry with me (inhaler, ibuprofen, chapstick, nail clippers, nail file, couple of hair elastics, used to have an epi-pen, but don't need that anymore, thankfully), phone, iPod, iPad, small cross-stitch project. Given that my bag is only 12x4x8" or so, it's kind of packed. I need to get a smaller wallet, which will help immensely.
I don't usually have pockets because women's clothing is stupid, so I can't carry anything there.
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Date: 2013-07-03 01:51 pm (UTC)We wantsss pocketses precioussss, pocketses.
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Date: 2013-07-03 01:59 pm (UTC)I do not want to haul even a small shoulder bag with me when I'm wandering off to fix a computer somewhere (and I often do want my phone - both for something to read while it's booting/rebooting, and to take pictures of long error messages.) And I have to have my work key, no matter what else, and sometimes a USB drive, and I hate the little coil things that people put around their wrists.
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Date: 2013-07-03 04:09 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-07-03 06:07 pm (UTC)So in cool weather I wear a man's or unisex vest with big pockets with zippers.
For summer I took a lightweight man's longsleeved shirt, closed the ends of the sleeves which made them like bags, made a lengthwise slit above teh cuffs, and use those bags as pockets. Wear it around the shoulders yuppie style, or around the waist like the guy in MEN IN BLACK, depending on temperature. When I get around to it, I'll turn up the bottom of the shirt to make big pockets like in a workman's apron.
What I keep in those sleeves/bags is memo recorder, basic keys, candy, lip balm, small items on the way from one place to another, and cell phone (in a plastic sleeve with a replica of drivers license and car insurance cards, in case I drive to a neighbor's without my purse, and sometimes a $20 bill).
When I go to town, I transfer the memo recorder and phone to a regular purse kind of like a small Baggallini, with compartments for all the above plus checkbook, credit cards, small comb, money, pen and pencil, memo paper, pill box with dog treats, wristwatch, pocket knife, spare AAA batteries for the recorder, more keys, space for receipts and folded letters etc that I need to take in somewhere to show someone, etc. This is the bag that I take into stores, meetings, etc.
Dangling from this nice purse is a net bag of adjustable size, for temporary things that don't fit in the purse, such as small water bottle.
In the car lives a medium size shapeless bag of replaceable stuff. Big comb, emergency recharger for the cell (holding 4 AA batteries). Things I might want in the car but don't want to carry into stores etc. It's black and hides on the floor behind the seat. If this were larger and the nice purse would fit into it on occasion, I could say everything was nestable, but it isn't, quite.
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Date: 2013-07-04 02:23 pm (UTC)My two problems are when other people mistakenly throw things in the wash, or I run out of drying space. XD
utility belts for women: I want this so badly
Date: 2013-07-04 12:43 pm (UTC)Re: utility belts for women: I want this so badly
Date: 2013-07-04 06:25 pm (UTC)Re: utility belts for women: I want this so badly
Date: 2013-07-04 06:39 pm (UTC)Re: utility belts for women: I want this so badly
Date: 2013-07-07 02:11 am (UTC)Re: utility belts for women: I want this so badly
Date: 2013-07-07 02:28 am (UTC)When I have money again, yes yes yes (and thank you).
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