What Do You Carry With You? (2018 edition) April 1, 2018

Not an April Fool’s joke, just a meme, borrowed from jjhunter.

Things I almost always take along when I go out:

• Glasses
• Smartphone
• mp3 player + headphones
• Keyring (with loyalty cards for Stop’n’Shop, CVS)
• MBTA pass
• Chapstick
• Wallet (with photo ID, credit card, library card, laundry card, debit card, and some cash)
• Mini health kit (pads, painkillers, bandaids, alcohol wipes, cough drops, in a little Red Cross pouch)

(The last 4 are stashed permanently in my bag, only pulled out for special occasions.)

Things I won’t pack if I’m just running to the store, but will make a point of taking to work, or on a more extended trip:

• Phone charger (USB, with outlet adapter)
• Sketchbook
• Clipboard (for sketchbook sturdiness reinforcement)
• Assembly of pens, pencils, eraser

Desktop Screenshot Meme July 10, 2017

Down to the last 399 images in my Photobucket account! Among the randomest of the broken images: desktop-screenshot memes from 8 years ago.

Here’s what it looked like June 2009, two computers ago, running Windows XP:

And here’s September 2009, my previous computer, running the just-released Windows 7:

Picking up the theme, the computer I got during grad school and still have, in July 2017:

That’s the wonderful Desktop Calendar app running in the lower right. And in the second column of icons, you can see the folder with miscellaneous Photobucket rescues.