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What do I carry around with me?

So I carry around a messenger bag with a combination of stuff in it. I’m curious to hear what other people carry around with them. So to start things off, I thought I’d tell you guys (and gals) what I had in my bag. Don’t worry there isn’t anything nasty in there.

I don’t like heavy bag so I try to carry around a small amount of essentials.

A Moleskine sketch book - not because I like to draw (I consider stick figures and color-by-numbers renaissance art) but I like the paper and I use it for note taking. I tend to take a lot of notes so a small notebook like this works really well. It’s the perfect balance of size and portability. I also have a very specific and particular pen to use with this notebook. I think I might have a notebook and pen fetish.

A dot grid book - I’m working on a project that requires me to document EVERY SINGLE ITEM and action. So I bought me one of these so I can take my project specific notes and any sketches in it without cluttering up the regular Moleskine. So far it has worked really well since the dots tend to keep my writing in place while still offering the fluidness of a regular sketchbook. Did I mention that I’m a stickler for paper? This notebook has excellent paper.

My IBM X30 laptop - God, I love this laptop! It is the lightest. thing. ever. It gives me the ability to take my work around and when I have a longer amount of time at a wifi hotspot/coffee shop I whip it out (the laptop - get your minds out of the gutter) to do some document writing, coding or emailing. Whatever may fancy my interest at that time. My only complaint is that it doesn’t have a trackpad; it has a nubbin’ for the mouse control. Easily remedied by the wireless kensington mouse that I also carry around. Oh yea, it gets a bit hot. Hot enough to burn a laptop shaped patch of my leg hairs.

The IPhone - An mp3 player, a portable media player, a calendar and, of course, a phone. I carry my music and my audiobooks in it for times that I need to distract myself from work (or life). I carry around two movies: Intolerable Cruelty and Thank you for smoking. Two movies that I can just listen to as background because of the awesome dialog. So yea! Screw you Rogers! I already have one!

So how about you? What do you carry inside your bag?

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