So, apparently the Metro is smaller than it looks. I haven’t seen it yet in person, but the downtown sporting goods store allegedly carries them, and I do plan to check it (and others in the line) out. Dammit!  (I mean, I even looked it up on Flickr. I am that laaame.)

So, instead I’ve been spending Ingrid’s naptimes looking up bags. Yes. I know. Shut up. Lame.

What I’ve decided would make TPB for me, based on other bags I’ve used:

• Outside, easy access, pockets, like water bottle pockets. On my previous TPBs, these have held bottles or my keys or my sunglass case or whatever.
• Fairly easy to keep clean
• Waterproof or resistant (I imagine…)
• Not as big as a traditional messenger
• Not as small as a purse
• Not hideously ugly
• Not too boring
• Not too froufy
• A light colored liner — that’s one of the cons of my current bag, that it’s a black hole, and I loved the idea of a gray lining!
• One adjustable strap, preferably, and, of COURSE,
• nothing Pooh-Ass.

So, that would be my requirements. I don’t carry a checkbook wallet, just a bifold, but I would like to carry my camera more, which is fairly small but chunky (my Olympus, I can’t imagine fitting the D70 in anything that would meet my everyday needs, now that I think about it), and of course, traditional Ingrid supplies, with room to grow.

And, why do so few bag companies offer any sense of SCALE with their pictures? Sigh. (Actually, Timbuk2 does, but apparently it still skews for me, as the Metro seemed pretty big. But, then again, I usually just carry a wallet.)