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It was back in the spring, if you can call it that considering the frigid nature of the weather, when I finally broke down and bought myself a small bag… yes, a man purse, a murse, a gadget bag, whatever you want to call it… the maker calls it an ‘urban bag’ if you care.

I have to admit I haven’t been carrying it around as often as I had been ever since that little episode in the middle of nowhere when this redneck boy yells “Hey, Mister, I like your hat… …and your purse.”

The thing about it though, is that during the spring/summer when wearing a jacket was out of the question, the whole ‘detachable man sack’ thing worked brilliantly. I was able to carry my iPod, (Palm) Tungsten, digital camera, cellphone, various little things like vitamins and pain relievers (yay for narcotics), checkbook, along with an assortment of small computer gadgets like my bluetooth adapter and usb flash drive thingee. I found myself muttering something along the lines of ‘I can’t believe I’ve lived without having something like this…’ or ‘the women have the right idea’ …you get my point. No matter what the situation I was able to have my toolkit with me wherever I went, lol.

My Hedgren urban bag is a little flimsy though, and I was always having trouble with the directly affixed shoulder strap flipping around the wrong direction. The idiotic magnetic closure was always pulling out of the lightweight nylon too, but none the less I still love the thing. It does tend to get a bit bulky when I have everything in it though, so I’ve been casually on the lookout for something that might just work a bit better. The problem is, well, everything I’ve seen looks stupid.

That is, until I was taking a glance at my friend Dave’s site (you know, davezilla.com) and he’d posted that little French language translation of the Tom Bihn care tag image that has been circulating around the various websites for a while now. I vaguely remember looking at his stuff (Tom Bihn’s) when I searched for a super huge messenger bag, but at that time I was out of the market for a small bag, so I don’t think I even payed attention to the Cafe Bags then.

So, yesterday I bought one, a small Cafe Bag, black with an interior of ’steel’ colour. I wanted something sturdy enough so that I wouldn’t feel awkward about carrying around a bag full of thousands of dollars of ‘gadgets’ for fear it’d come apart… and the Hedgren bag didn’t have any special pockets for my Tungsten or cellphone (like the Cafe bag does have). I think it’s going to work well, plus for added amusement I’ll have a care tag that says how the president is an idiot, whoo, right? Yes, I thought so too.

Update: Drats, apparently they sold out of the black bag with steel interior sometime this weekend prior to my purchase. I could get a black with crimson interior, but, errm… I decided to go with my tossup choice of steel with a sapphire interior, it’s just a little more flashy with that brilliant blue inside.