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Here is my Duluth Pack Bison Leather Market Tote. The picture really doesn't do it justice. And is is HUGE. I almost think it might be too big for me but I just started carrying it so hopefully I will get used to it. It is my work bag so my purse and all sorts of other stuff ends up in it. The leather feels really great and I am sure it will get even better with time.20190214_081750.jpg
 
Here is my Duluth Pack Bison Leather Market Tote. The picture really doesn't do it justice. And is is HUGE. I almost think it might be too big for me but I just started carrying it so hopefully I will get used to it. It is my work bag so my purse and all sorts of other stuff ends up in it. The leather feels really great and I am sure it will get even better with time.View attachment 4341474
LOVE that leather!!!
 
Here is my Duluth Pack Bison Leather Market Tote. The picture really doesn't do it justice. And is is HUGE. I almost think it might be too big for me but I just started carrying it so hopefully I will get used to it. It is my work bag so my purse and all sorts of other stuff ends up in it. The leather feels really great and I am sure it will get even better with time.View attachment 4341474

The leather looks wonderful ... thick and soft. It almost reminds me of the soft pebbled leather Coach came out with as "Bleecker" two or three years ago. I *love* soft, 'cushy' leather.

But I'm actually also here to say this ---- PERL CODING!!!!!
When I finished grad school, my first job was running a bunch of Silicon Graphics Unix machines for a business consulting company, and I coded the company's website (and a searchable database) using Perl. ;)
And for me, the real joke, is that my name, actually is, Pearl.
Do you have the Perl book with the camel on it? I forget the name of that series of language books, but they each have a sketch of an animal on them. Mine is in the basement, but I think it was a camel on the Perl volume?
 
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So this is what hubby got me for Lunar New Year (pre-loved, obviously, as this is an oldie).
My intention was to carry it from CNY through V-day ... I figured the red cherries were perfect for both, right?

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But then .... (and I posted this in LV subsection, but thought I'd put it here too, since it's kind of comical in the end) ...

Daughter had stomach flu a couple weeks ago, this past Sunday hubby came down with it (both are better now), and last night ... guess what. V-Day started at 4am with me calling my husband to the bathroom because I honestly didn't think I'd make it back to the bed on my own. New situation for me ... I've never seen stars from a viral illness before in my life. Sure enough, halfway back to the bedroom, after me insisting that I wanted to walk on my own, I heard a thump. Heh. Turned out that thump was me, as I suddenly realized I was sitting on the hallway floor. The thought process was actually very funny in retrospect.

V-Day is now hubby bringing me liquids while I sit on the sofa, and daughter will help him do the grocery store run. Tomorrow he'll work from home so he can babysit me again just in case. Sigh.

But hey, I can *look* at my cute little cherries, right?
 
The leather looks wonderful ... thick and soft. It almost reminds me of the soft pebbled leather Coach came out with as "Bleecker" two or three years ago. I *love* soft, 'cushy' leather.

But I'm actually also here to say this ---- PERL CODING!!!!!
When I finished grad school, my first job was running a bunch of Silicon Graphics Unix machines for a business consulting company, and I coded the company's website (and a searchable database) using Perl. ;)
And for me, the real joke, is that my name, actually is, Pearl.
Do you have the Perl book with the camel on it? I forget the name of that series of language books, but they each have a sketch of an animal on them. Mine is in the basement, but I think it was a camel on the Perl volume?

Thank you! LOL the leather right now is pretty stiff but I am sure it will soften up with use.

I am a programmer so have a lot of programming language books at my desk at work. As for the camel book, I think you must be thinking of the O'Reilly books. I don't have that one for PERL but I have it for Oracle PL/SQL Programming, SQL, UNIX, etc!
 
So this is what hubby got me for Lunar New Year (pre-loved, obviously, as this is an oldie).
My intention was to carry it from CNY through V-day ... I figured the red cherries were perfect for both, right?

View attachment 4341553

But then .... (and I posted this in LV subsection, but thought I'd put it here too, since it's kind of comical in the end) ...

Daughter had stomach flu a couple weeks ago, this past Sunday hubby came down with it (both are better now), and last night ... guess what. V-Day started at 4am with me calling my husband to the bathroom because I honestly didn't think I'd make it back to the bed on my own. New situation for me ... I've never seen stars from a viral illness before in my life. Sure enough, halfway back to the bedroom, after me insisting that I wanted to walk on my own, I heard a thump. Heh. Turned out that thump was me, as I suddenly realized I was sitting on the hallway floor. The thought process was actually very funny in retrospect.

V-Day is now hubby bringing me liquids while I sit on the sofa, and daughter will help him do the grocery store run. Tomorrow he'll work from home so he can babysit me again just in case. Sigh.

But hey, I can *look* at my cute little cherries, right?
Seems like that stomach bug has made it's rounds. It's gone around here in Mississippi, it's a tough bug, especially when it hits an assisted living and memory care facility like where my mother lives. Hopefully, you'll bounce back soon.
 
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Seems like that stomach bug has made it's rounds. It's gone around here in Mississippi, it's a tough bug, especially when it hits an assisted living and memory care facility like where my mother lives. Hopefully, you'll bounce back soon.

Yeah, there's something really nasty about this one. My husband's immune system is usually phenomenally good. This was the first time in four years that he actually missed a day of work due to sickness. And while my own immune system sucks, I rarely pass out from anything. But we both actually passed out from this one. (He'd made it back to the bed when he had it; I just dropped in the hallway.)

My mother is 86 and lives by herself. She usually comes up on Sundays and helps in the sunday school class I teach. She's not scared of the colds those kids carry, but geez ... this thing ... I told her not to come last Sunday due to hubby, now telling her to not come this Sunday due to me. I cannot have an 86 year old passing out in the middle of the night, when it did exactly that to both hubby and I. I can only imagine this in an assisted care/nursing home setting. (I actually worked part-time in one during college, and I do remember bugs going around, but nothing that was literally dropping people onto the floor.)

Good luck (I'm being completely sincere, not the least bit sarcastic) to anyone else out there who gets this. It's a wild one.
 
Seems like that stomach bug has made it's rounds. It's gone around here in Mississippi, it's a tough bug, especially when it hits an assisted living and memory care facility like where my mother lives. Hopefully, you'll bounce back soon.

Wow, and one more thing ... I just did a google news search on "stomach flu".
One of the first things that came up is from down south in your neck of the country. At a Lousiana high school, over 100 kids were out this week due to stomach bug. That's impressive.

(Sorry for derailment to thread.)
 
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So this is what hubby got me for Lunar New Year (pre-loved, obviously, as this is an oldie).
My intention was to carry it from CNY through V-day ... I figured the red cherries were perfect for both, right?

View attachment 4341553

But then .... (and I posted this in LV subsection, but thought I'd put it here too, since it's kind of comical in the end) ...

Daughter had stomach flu a couple weeks ago, this past Sunday hubby came down with it (both are better now), and last night ... guess what. V-Day started at 4am with me calling my husband to the bathroom because I honestly didn't think I'd make it back to the bed on my own. New situation for me ... I've never seen stars from a viral illness before in my life. Sure enough, halfway back to the bedroom, after me insisting that I wanted to walk on my own, I heard a thump. Heh. Turned out that thump was me, as I suddenly realized I was sitting on the hallway floor. The thought process was actually very funny in retrospect.

V-Day is now hubby bringing me liquids while I sit on the sofa, and daughter will help him do the grocery store run. Tomorrow he'll work from home so he can babysit me again just in case. Sigh.

But hey, I can *look* at my cute little cherries, right?
Oh no! Funny, not funny! [emoji28]
Hope you're feeling better.
 
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