Review: Chrome Macheto Travel Pack

After a recent trip, I feel I need to sing the praises of the Macheto Travel Pack by Chrome Industries.

I've long been a fan of Chrome bags. They're well-constructed, waterproof, durable, and all-around badass. I obtained the Macheto Travel Pack pretty much as soon as it went on sale after I got an advert from Chrome saying it was in the works. I had a trip in the works and thought it would be perfect.

Wow, was I right! It was the perfect-size for a week-long trip, with myriad pockets for pretty much ever conceivable need. The Macheto shrugs off rain like Superman in a bullet-storm and can convert to a backpack with ease.

It even caught the eye of one of the TSA agents who saw it go through security.

If you're about to take a short trip somewhere, I cannot recommend the Macheto highly enough. It's carry-on size for pretty much every airline I know of.

This little bugger's going with me on all my trips.

Aaaah... Deadly Sins

I'm fond of saying that my favorite Deadly Sins are Gluttony and Sloth.

Oh, I'm a fan of all seven, were I to be totally honest. Envy is probably my least favorite of the lot. Pride is a "meh". Lust... well, okay, that one vies with Wrath for my number three. I've always felt Greed is really a variation of Lust, Envy, and Gluttony. And that leads me Gluttony and Sloth. Damn but I love lounging around, eating and drinking my fill then doing fuck-all with my day.

I've had two weeks off now. Two glorious weeks of doing very, very little.

Oh, I've gotten some productive things done, to be sure. Small things, such as workouts, laundry, bits of life maintenance, and the like. In the grand scheme, I've done exactly jack shit for about two weeks.

I'm sad that time is coming to an end.

Hello 2019

I slept through the New Year this time. Can't say I regret it.

Haven't done shit today. It's been awesome.

Hello 2019, what have you got in store for us?

Wrapping Up 2018

I feel oddly-obligated to make a New Year's Eve post. Not sure why.

I've just finished (re-)watching Shaun of the Dead with some Zachary's deep-dish pizza and a bit of Campfire whiskey. That's pretty much the sum total of my New Year's Eve plans in a nutshell. I may pop another movie on. I may try a bit of writing. I expect I'll have a bit more Campfire. I'm not sure if I'm going to bother staying up 'till midnight.

2018 has been a really weird year. Can't say I'm sorry to see it go. I'm curious what 2019 will bring. I'm sure it will be interesting times.

Almost there...

As 2018 winds down, I sit nursing sore muscles. I overdid it yesterday. A life lesson: make sure your destination has what you're looking for before you walk a couple of miles to fetch something.

Got my SSD configured. Turns out I had to do things. Google pointed me to the things. I managed to do the things. I feel very empowered and technical, despite my inability to describe what I had to do to get everything working properly.

I'm set for New Year's Eve, for the most part. I couldn't get the beer I wanted (part of my fruitless trek yesterday) but I've got plenty of other stuff to make up for the lack. I've also got a deep-dish pizza waiting to be baked as my dinner tomorrow. Mmm...

I figure I'll marathon some movies, maybe all the Avengers flix in my library or the entire LotR series. If I'm still up around midnight, I'll toast the new year and go to bed.

Yeah, it's not exciting, but I'm not really looking for excitement.

2018 was a fairly ridiculous year for me. It certainly had no small bits of excitement. I changed jobs. I saw one of those "landmark" birthdays come and go. I thought I was going to lose my mind more than once. I changed Internet providers (aaah... to be websurfing at civilized speeds...). I did a lot of personal journey stuff that would mean nothing to anyone other than myself. All said, despite the worldwide shitshow that was 2018, the year itself treated me fairly well. Gonna be interesting to see where 2019 takes me.

Four Days Left

I'm kind of proud of myself today. Having no hardware skills whatsoever, I managed to clone my hard drive to a solid-state drive without issue. I even managed to expand the volume to take advantage of most of the drive!

For some really annoying reason, I can't seem to access about a quarter of the new drive, but there's got to be some way to make that happen.

Four days left in the year!

Thirteen Days Left

After today, that is.

I'm struggling with a decision: do I upgrade my current PC with a SSD and just keep going with it for a few more years or do I just bite the bullet and get a new machine? Getting a new machine means having to configure the hell out of it. That's gonna be a pain in the ass. But it would be a faster machine, if I did so.

Decisions, decisions...