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yo kids, what's shakin? I'm busy as all heck with both coaching and photography so both the blog and my other stuff have been let slide recently. However, after some sushi out with the troops tonight, I had to make a grocery run, and thought I'd share a couple pics. These were shot with the Stylus, since I've 3 huge folders of stuff I've been processing for sale from the Nikon. yay, I don't even know what I'm doing and people are paying me for this??!! ha ha, suckers!!
The collegiate guys I've been coaching aren't rich by any means (which is why it's me coaching them and not somebody with a marque name, i.e. Vaughters), but daggone, do they get some killer discounts on stuff, useful little gromits that they are... well big gromits in the case of the one. Since last Christmas, Da Boyz have hooked me up with my Chrome Metropolis, a sweet pair of wheels and my MacBook Pro, which over the past ten days has laid to rest about ten years of psychological trauma from dealing with craptastic PC equipment. Payment in kind, it'll do; and in this case the intangibles are way more valuable than cash
Now, I love my Pista, but I love my Metropolis even more. Scarily enough, this is not the biggest bag Chrome sells... tho the only one I've seen who can pull off wearing the Kremlin gracefully is my 6'6" collegiate client. Check this out:
Grocery Night. 8 miles round trip to the sushi bar, and along the way pick up a few groceries on the way back. I'm having friends over for movie night tomorrow, so my usual m.o. of Grape Nuts and PB&J in front of the computer ain't gonna cut it.
Pic 1: one bag to rule them all. Looks kinda loaded, right? the gloves of course go on my hands, and the Ulock goes in the back pocket of my knicks.
Pic 2: in the spirit of flickr's 'What's In Your Bag' group, I thought I'd share just how much you can cram into a Metropolis, and still make it home in relative comfort... keep in mind I'm 5'4" and just a tick under 130# as of this AM. IOW, when Da Bag gets loaded up like this, the freakin' thing's about bigger than I am.
Item list clockwise from left (includes groceries and random bitz):
Outside the bag:
Family Size Grape Nuts (because regular size just won't cut it in this household, J loves' em too!)
craptastic Motorola camphone (eh, it was free...)
housekeys-on-a-leash (well, carabinered to the front buckle of the bag, anyhow).
Sourdough boule', sliced to order for bruschetta
4 cups of yoghurt
6 Braeburn apples (the kind that don't suck) also for bruschetta (thanks, Brendan, for the killer recipe!)
Zefal minipump, fits nicely between the liner and outer shell
spare tube, levers and patch kit (the turquoise thingy); same as pump
Rudy Project Ekynox SKs + 2 sets spare lenses (dark, amber, clear)
3 emery boards (I'm a princess about my nails)
pens: a nice gell roller, a nice liquid ultrafine roller, and a Sharpie. Never know when you're gonna need a Sharpie.
eye drops (for da contacts, but LASIK's gonna happen soon, yay!)
chapstick (Colorado necessity)
lavender 3x3" Post-Its
keys to the brand new Subaru that I never drive (seriously, bought it 15 September 05, it's got 2,600 miles on... and that's with several ski trips and a boyfriend who lives 30 miles away in LoDo)
Moleskine reporter's notebook, ruled (doesn't crash like my Palmpilot did)
U.S. passport, in case I need to leave the country in a hurry
Raymond Feist novel (cos I'm a teenage boy masquerading as a GenX woman)
Altoids peppermints (cos I'm a safety gal like that)
relatively decent salsa; no good local tomatoes yet to make my own with
cheapo Tar-je trendy pink-n-black wallet. cost five bucks if that, and I get tons of compliments on it... wth?
Quesadilla cheese (ask your friendly neighbourhood Mexican grocer)
quart o' vanilla Silk, for the Grape-Nuts. cos I hate cow's milk, that's why.
big ol' bag o fresh spinach
big ol bag o romaine hearts
1000 ml red Nalgene waterbottle, with Campag stickers all over it
spare fleece, um... yea. cos it's Colorado, ya know.
Inside the bag (because even the Stylus isn't quite wideangle enough to fit it all in):
big ol bag o tortilla chips
small bag of Boulder Malt Vinegar & Sea Salt kettle potato chips
loaf of whole wheat bread for PB&J carnage during the week.
and last but not least: a towel (underneath)... because if you truly understand Life, the Universe and Everything, you know ya just don't leave home without one. 42, suckaz!
not pictured: Olympus Stylus point-n-shoot (uh, cos I'm taking the pics with it, duh!), the Chrome laptop slipcase that the MacBook rides around in most days, and the nice Footbolt Shiraz I purchased for Movie Night a few days ago.
so I gotta ask youall this: Since the weather is improving - why not park your car, shoot your T.V., and go ride your bike?
The collegiate guys I've been coaching aren't rich by any means (which is why it's me coaching them and not somebody with a marque name, i.e. Vaughters), but daggone, do they get some killer discounts on stuff, useful little gromits that they are... well big gromits in the case of the one. Since last Christmas, Da Boyz have hooked me up with my Chrome Metropolis, a sweet pair of wheels and my MacBook Pro, which over the past ten days has laid to rest about ten years of psychological trauma from dealing with craptastic PC equipment. Payment in kind, it'll do; and in this case the intangibles are way more valuable than cash
Now, I love my Pista, but I love my Metropolis even more. Scarily enough, this is not the biggest bag Chrome sells... tho the only one I've seen who can pull off wearing the Kremlin gracefully is my 6'6" collegiate client. Check this out:
Grocery Night. 8 miles round trip to the sushi bar, and along the way pick up a few groceries on the way back. I'm having friends over for movie night tomorrow, so my usual m.o. of Grape Nuts and PB&J in front of the computer ain't gonna cut it.
Pic 1: one bag to rule them all. Looks kinda loaded, right? the gloves of course go on my hands, and the Ulock goes in the back pocket of my knicks.
Pic 2: in the spirit of flickr's 'What's In Your Bag' group, I thought I'd share just how much you can cram into a Metropolis, and still make it home in relative comfort... keep in mind I'm 5'4" and just a tick under 130# as of this AM. IOW, when Da Bag gets loaded up like this, the freakin' thing's about bigger than I am.
Item list clockwise from left (includes groceries and random bitz):
Outside the bag:
Family Size Grape Nuts (because regular size just won't cut it in this household, J loves' em too!)
craptastic Motorola camphone (eh, it was free...)
housekeys-on-a-leash (well, carabinered to the front buckle of the bag, anyhow).
Sourdough boule', sliced to order for bruschetta
4 cups of yoghurt
6 Braeburn apples (the kind that don't suck) also for bruschetta (thanks, Brendan, for the killer recipe!)
Zefal minipump, fits nicely between the liner and outer shell
spare tube, levers and patch kit (the turquoise thingy); same as pump
Rudy Project Ekynox SKs + 2 sets spare lenses (dark, amber, clear)
3 emery boards (I'm a princess about my nails)
pens: a nice gell roller, a nice liquid ultrafine roller, and a Sharpie. Never know when you're gonna need a Sharpie.
eye drops (for da contacts, but LASIK's gonna happen soon, yay!)
chapstick (Colorado necessity)
lavender 3x3" Post-Its
keys to the brand new Subaru that I never drive (seriously, bought it 15 September 05, it's got 2,600 miles on... and that's with several ski trips and a boyfriend who lives 30 miles away in LoDo)
Moleskine reporter's notebook, ruled (doesn't crash like my Palmpilot did)
U.S. passport, in case I need to leave the country in a hurry
Raymond Feist novel (cos I'm a teenage boy masquerading as a GenX woman)
Altoids peppermints (cos I'm a safety gal like that)
relatively decent salsa; no good local tomatoes yet to make my own with
cheapo Tar-je trendy pink-n-black wallet. cost five bucks if that, and I get tons of compliments on it... wth?
Quesadilla cheese (ask your friendly neighbourhood Mexican grocer)
quart o' vanilla Silk, for the Grape-Nuts. cos I hate cow's milk, that's why.
big ol' bag o fresh spinach
big ol bag o romaine hearts
1000 ml red Nalgene waterbottle, with Campag stickers all over it
spare fleece, um... yea. cos it's Colorado, ya know.
Inside the bag (because even the Stylus isn't quite wideangle enough to fit it all in):
big ol bag o tortilla chips
small bag of Boulder Malt Vinegar & Sea Salt kettle potato chips
loaf of whole wheat bread for PB&J carnage during the week.
and last but not least: a towel (underneath)... because if you truly understand Life, the Universe and Everything, you know ya just don't leave home without one. 42, suckaz!
not pictured: Olympus Stylus point-n-shoot (uh, cos I'm taking the pics with it, duh!), the Chrome laptop slipcase that the MacBook rides around in most days, and the nice Footbolt Shiraz I purchased for Movie Night a few days ago.
so I gotta ask youall this: Since the weather is improving - why not park your car, shoot your T.V., and go ride your bike?