{"id":153,"date":"2007-10-24T17:00:02","date_gmt":"2007-10-25T00:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/?p=153"},"modified":"2018-08-06T15:06:41","modified_gmt":"2018-08-06T22:06:41","slug":"the-quest-for-the-purse-of-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/?p=153","title":{"rendered":"the quest for the purse of gold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like most women, I&#8217;m always on the lookout for the Perfect Purse.  I&#8217;m beginning to think that Perfect Purses fall into the same category as perpetual motion machines and world peace&#8211;nice idea, not workable in the real world.<\/p>\n<p>The latest entry in my Purse Quest arrived today.  It&#8217;s the Messenger Bag from Duluth Trading Company.  The illustration is the khaki version.  Mine is black.<\/p>\n<p>The illustration&#8217;s a bit misleading because it shows the backside of the bag.  But it&#8217;s otherwise accurate enough.<\/p>\n<p>The bag&#8217;s a bit smaller than I&#8217;d pictured it when I ordered.  This is a good thing in that it will encourage me to be better organized and quit hauling around so much junk, but on the other hand I can&#8217;t just stuff my big spiral notebook into this one when I&#8217;m off to class, as I did with my Victorinox mesenger bag, its predecessor.<\/p>\n<p>Still, I&#8217;m replacing the Victorinox because it just wasn&#8217;t well enough organized.  It&#8217;s just one big inner compartment and stuff not only got lost in there, it fell out.  After my bus pass disappeared for the second time I figured it was time to take action.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other good things about this purse:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nylon and therefore easy to keep clean<\/li>\n<li>Lots and lots of compartments, with zippers<\/li>\n<li>Built-in phone holder<\/li>\n<li>Cute little LED flashlight that snaps into the purse flap<\/li>\n<li>Expandable bottom gusset (a necessity since the top of the bag is comparatively small)<\/li>\n<li>Zippered compartment on the back that will be great for my card case<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Things I don&#8217;t like so much:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The aforementioned small opening at the top<\/li>\n<li>Magnetic closure (safe for PDA or not?)<\/li>\n<li>Designed to be carried over the left shoulder and not ambidextrously<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m gonna transfer my stuff over to it and see how well I can fit everything in.  I&#8217;ve been carrying around an unstructured bag from Marketplace of India when I didn&#8217;t want to haul out the big messenger bag, and I think this new bag will be the perfect in-between-those-bags replacement.<\/p>\n<p>Whether it&#8217;s the proverbial Purse of Gold remains to be seen.  \ud83d\ude42<br \/>\n<!-- ddsig --><\/p>\n<i><font color=\"brown\">Hope you'll recommend my posts via your favorite social media.  Just don't copy the material as your own.<\/font><\/i>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like most women, I&#8217;m always on the lookout for the Perfect Purse. I&#8217;m beginning to think that Perfect Purses fall into the same category as perpetual motion machines and world peace&#8211;nice idea, not workable in the real world. The latest &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/?p=153\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1385,"href":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions\/1385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}