More Shopping Finds

So the Pony is now in 8th grade, at which time all parents of 8th grade students purchase a laptop computer for said 8th grader, which is used at school, in class, for homework, for making class presentations, and also for downloading music and posting at MySpace, although those are not school requirments.

In the nature of short notice, however, is the fact that while the computers were to be delivered to the students at school, they did not come with anything in the nature of a carrying case. So, Monday night we discovered we had to find a notebook case by Tuesday morning.

Well, we looked. The local likely retailers--Target, Office Max, etc.--did carry notebook cases. They had black backpacks, black satchels, black messenger bags, black briefcases, black suitcases, and black handbags made of black nylon, black cotton, black microfiber, black suede and black leather. Do you see a trend here? Because Pony doesn't want a black computer bag. And who can blame her? How could you tell yours from anyone else's?

So off to the trusty Internets. Which have an even wider variety of retail outlets selling an even wider variety of black notebook cases. And then we found--

Mango Tango.

A site dedicated to the proposition that all computer carrying cases are not created black. And Pony liked this one:

Heck, I like that one too, although the bronze one is more attractive to my eye for shiny things.

So we ordered the one for Pony, and she is using my carrying case in the interim. We are both looking forward to the delivery of hers. Maybe that one will break, and I can get myself the shiny one!