08/29/07

2:43 p.m.
If you're anything like me, you'll understand my obsession with finding the perfect computer/book bag. I want to lug my computer, several books, pens, magazines, keys, phone, extra paper, power cords, sunglasses, iPod, camera and more with me wherever I go, be it to the coffee shop around the corner or half way around the world. I've tried bag after bag, each one promising to fulfill my very baggy needs, only to have them fail, wear out and/or completely disappoint me in one way or another.

Then yesterday, I ran across the Saddleback Leather company website, and there it was -- like a bright, shining beacon of hope that must have floated down directly from heaven: the perfect bag!

"I will seduce you with my sturdy, practical charm."

A bag that's just as roomy and useful on the inside as it is tough and impervious on the outside.

"My beauty aint just skin deep."

I ordered one of their medium size briefcase bags in a dark coffee brown. If the real thing turns out to be anything like it's pictured and described, I think that my long and desperate search for the right bag, the best bag, the ultimate life toting bag, might just be over.

Here's a link to a video of one of their bags getting attacked by a crocodile and living to tell the tale.