Yesterday's shopping trip, in 3 parts

[mdlbear]

The main item on yesterday's schedule was, oddly enough, a family shopping trip. Well, 3/4 of the family, anyway. The flower_cat wanted a new purple laptop-bag/purse for her new EeePC, and the chaoswolf wanted a new Windows laptop capable of running Adobe CS3, which she needs for school. The Wolfling had determined that there was a Lenovo at Micro Center that fit her needs, and nolly had suggested either Staples or Office ?Depot? for the bag. Along the way, the Cat wanted to drive around the neighborhood of the Baycon hotel and locate the nearest restaurants. So off we went.

Micro Center is located within Mission College's ring-road, and it's off Great America Parkway only a few blocks from the Santa Clara Convention center, so we hit that first and backtracked to MC, spotting restaurants along the way. There's nothing within a short walk of the hotel, unfortunately, but it's only a short drive. About 20-30 minutes' walking each way, if you want the exercise; I probably will.

The Cat had never been to Micro Center, so she had fun exploring (and rejecting their entire collection of laptop bags, none of which were purple) while the Wolfling bought her lappie. The Cat bought a little laptop stand that looked as though it would hold the EeePC off of upholstry and keep it from burning up, so that was OK. End of part 1.

There was a Staples on the way home. No purple bags, though we did get a dark-pink beanbag laptop tray in case the stand didn't work out. End of part 2. We continued toward home, intending to drop off the Wolf, until I mentioned that there might be something at REI. The Wolf immediately pricked up her ears, and we quickly changed course.

No joy at REI, either, though there were a couple of Timbuktu bags that came close. Sort of a muddy purplish, with a broad stripe of either beige or pink. Gack. But there was an Office Max next door...

Score! Buxton Reno tote; rich dark purple; big enough for her present purse, the Eee, accessories, and so on. Big win. End of part 3.

Came home and verified that, indeed, the little stand held the Eee just fine. The Y.D. immediately claimed the beanbag tray -- "It's pink!" Verified that the bag's handles are -- just barely -- long enough to go over the handles of the wheelchair.

Went out for my walkies around 6pm, when it was pleasantly cool. Leftovers for dinner.

Comments

[pwl1.livejournal.com]

And I thought I was doing well with a new ergonomic (and totally "green" I'm told) Targus backpack for my work laptop. I love the inner bag that can be removed which holds the laptop, and then "hangs" on three loops inside the largest pocket of the backpack. And then there was the universal port replicator. And the order for the new desktop ($350 Cdn) with 160 Gb hard drive, 1 Gb RAM (we're adding another Gb), 6 USB slots, firewire, slots for almost every imaginable memory card, DVD writer - well - you get the picture. And a fairly small footprint on top of the desk which will make it MUCH more accessible than my tower. Which I'm keeping for games and such-like :-) All purchased on our way to the house filk yesterday afternoon...

[mdlbear]

Cool! I'm using a Microsoft branded bag (the only one of their products I've ever liked) that's big enough for a laptop and notebook in the front compartment, my CPAP and shoulder bag in the middle compartment, and a big pile of accessories in the outside compartment.

$350 isn't bad for a desktop; these days I usually just do upgrades, since the various parts die/become obsolete at different rates.

[kshandra]

I have the same bag; it fits my Lenovo R61 beautifully. I was trying to find a link for it online to show you and flower_cat, and failed miserably.

[mdlbear]

I went looking for it, too; lots of places trying to sell it. Buxton's website started playing sound at me, so I'll never know whether it would have been possible to find a picture there.

[kshandra]

There isn't.