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walkitoutThe smaller hair sprayer looks great and works fine.
I ordered a regular ipad (a16, but I bumped the memory up some) so I could get the magic keyboard folio and see what that was like. I have mixed feelings about it. I still so love the keyboard folio I took for granted with the ipad pro from 2020 that I foolishly replaced. I wish there were more / better smart connector options. I’m currently using a TypeCase (purple!) but I really fucking loathe bluetooth keyboards.
I discovered, to my chagrin, that the a16 compatible pencil is the one of four pencils that I’ve never acquired. It might also be compatible — I’m not sure — with the original pencil, but I’d already put that in ewaste, took it out of ewasted, listed on FB marketplace and gave away. I wasn’t in a hurry to spend that kind of money on something I provably will only use to become familiar with it and then never again, but then Amazon served me up the ESR digital pencil, and that is a compelling price point. Also, purple. I’m never really going to use it so I don’t care about the pressure sensitivity, and it has everything else. Would be nice if it had wireless charging, but I’m not prepared to complain about it, honestly. It uses USB-C.
I’m almost to a point where I’m ready to do a test pack for Balticon, which in turn is a test run for one-bagging longer trips in the summer. I’m not genuinely trying to one bag, but while I can manage two rollers with soft bags strapped to the top on an escalator, it makes me irritable, and my poorly concealed inner control freak persists in believing it should be possible to traverse an airport and public transport with equanimity (obviously an excessively high standard, but if you’ve been reading this blog for a while, you’ll have gotten used to that). My goal is to have A. use her roller and soft bag, for me to have a backpack (specifically, the Fjallraven 17” laptop, which fits under every airline seat as near as I can tell), each of us have a small-to-medium sized purse, and if I cannot quite get everything into my backpack, overflow needs to fit into her soft bag. This should let me completely takeover all of her stuff and my stuff (because when she meltsdown, asking her to deal with luggage does not make it better) and continue, if not with equanimity, at least at speed to a location more amenable to her.
I ordered a regular ipad (a16, but I bumped the memory up some) so I could get the magic keyboard folio and see what that was like. I have mixed feelings about it. I still so love the keyboard folio I took for granted with the ipad pro from 2020 that I foolishly replaced. I wish there were more / better smart connector options. I’m currently using a TypeCase (purple!) but I really fucking loathe bluetooth keyboards.
I discovered, to my chagrin, that the a16 compatible pencil is the one of four pencils that I’ve never acquired. It might also be compatible — I’m not sure — with the original pencil, but I’d already put that in ewaste, took it out of ewasted, listed on FB marketplace and gave away. I wasn’t in a hurry to spend that kind of money on something I provably will only use to become familiar with it and then never again, but then Amazon served me up the ESR digital pencil, and that is a compelling price point. Also, purple. I’m never really going to use it so I don’t care about the pressure sensitivity, and it has everything else. Would be nice if it had wireless charging, but I’m not prepared to complain about it, honestly. It uses USB-C.
I’m almost to a point where I’m ready to do a test pack for Balticon, which in turn is a test run for one-bagging longer trips in the summer. I’m not genuinely trying to one bag, but while I can manage two rollers with soft bags strapped to the top on an escalator, it makes me irritable, and my poorly concealed inner control freak persists in believing it should be possible to traverse an airport and public transport with equanimity (obviously an excessively high standard, but if you’ve been reading this blog for a while, you’ll have gotten used to that). My goal is to have A. use her roller and soft bag, for me to have a backpack (specifically, the Fjallraven 17” laptop, which fits under every airline seat as near as I can tell), each of us have a small-to-medium sized purse, and if I cannot quite get everything into my backpack, overflow needs to fit into her soft bag. This should let me completely takeover all of her stuff and my stuff (because when she meltsdown, asking her to deal with luggage does not make it better) and continue, if not with equanimity, at least at speed to a location more amenable to her.