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Nomadic Tote Bag Review

I recently won a bag from the Jetpens' random giveaways.  And now that I've had it for a couple of weeks and have used it off and on for that duration, I thought i would write a bit about it.  

The bag that I won was the Nomadic Toto Tote Bag, and I decided I had enough black bags and that I would totally dirty up the beige bag within no time, so I went with the grey bag.  The people at Jetpens were fast and efficient, the bag showed up within a week of me emailing them my address and color choice.  

First -- as with all nomadic bags, the plethora of pockets and stash areas.. Oh my! The bag has a tag that explains the pockets for the bag and depicts what goes in where.



Look at all those pockets!  Ok so I cant read Japanese, but I can sure follow pictures.  There looks to be 2 pockets for stashing water/bottles of whatever.  There is a pocket for  ID's inside the large pocket.  There is also a velcro'ed pocket for electronic devices (phones, cameras). 

Here is the bag as it was first unpacked from the box that I received from Jetpens.



Look at all those pockets!  Pocket envy -- The only problem is I have issues in finding things once i stash them into random pockets so this bag may prove to be my downfall :)

This is the bag stuffed, maybe not fully stuffed, but enough so that you can see how much it holds.  The far left is the bag full -- the right 2 pictures are what was put in the bag.  The far right picture was in the back pocket.  The picture in the middle with the 2 jr circa, 1 nomadic pencil/pen bag and a delfonics bag with the contents of my purse (sort of like my purse organizer).

 

The bag is very useful so far -- I've been able to downsize my work bag/purse.  I am able to put everything i need for work into the bag and keep my purse to a small bag, rather than using one of my larger totes for work stuff + purse.  In addition, it holds a Letter sized notebook meaning I can carry larger sheets of paper rather than folding them for the smaller work bags that i use.  

Something of note though -- one of the pockets in the back has a smaller stash section -- i tried to put pens in it, but the pens caps stick out -- not quite secure.  I'll see if i can get a picture or 2 of this in the next couple of days and post an update on here.

I think this may be a great bag for travel --- I would be able to stash things in the various pockets and be able to access them without much searching.  We shall see since I'm going to be going on a trip in a couple of days...

Where to Purchase?

• Jetpens $77.00

Jet Pens Giveaway

Jetpens is doing yet another giveaway!  They seem to be going through a giveaway fest.  Today's topic is Everyday Carry (EDC).  Usually one's EDC is what one takes around with them on a normal day -- pens, keys, flashlight, etc.  Jetpens did a EDC for Frodo and Catniss.  See it here and enter their giveaway.

Zebra Airfit Gel Giveaway winner

A week or so ago, i had a post on the Zebra Airfit Jell.  Since I had an extra i decided that it was a good giveaway.

Random.org did the picking of the winner.. and thus the 4th comment was from Kevin who is essentially Aziziah.. so as i already have your mailing address.. did you want me to send the package care of Tyco?

If you didnt win this and would love one of these pens, here's the link where you can drool and order one for yourself or you can try your luck with East West Everywhere's giveaway.  Now i've got to go see where the hubby stashed my envelope where this pen was being stored :D

Uniball Vision RT review

This pen is a liquid roller ink like the Uniball Vision pens. The pen is not one of my favorite pens because of the pen barrel.  Is the pen barrel that important?  Well, to me the pen barrel is quite important, because I'm an aesthetic type person--I dont like boring looking pens.  There is a rubber grip, but its very dissimilar to all the other grips that I've encountered.  Its a hard rubber grip -- harder than the jetstream grips that I am so very use to.  As you can see by the 2nd picture there is a textured grip area but it feels less substantial than some of the other rubber grips that I'm use to.  I typically use the Dr Grip like pens so your experience may vary.  There is a semi-translucent barrel (you can see the ink cartridge on that 3rd picture).    Now since I have a blue pen, I cant quite tell, but potentially if you had a different colored (lighter colored) ink you would be able to see the ink level?  In addition, once you use up more of the pen i suppose you would be able to see the ink level but as i've only used this pen for this writing test, i cant tell.


The pen is obviously a retractable pen, and you can either use the push button at the top or click on the back of the clip to cause the pen to retract.  Nice--- unless you like to fiddle with the clips on your pens and then potentially you could accidentally retract your pen when you didnt want to.  Not a problem here.  I suppose it has a blue push button on top since its a blue pen, and for the red pen you would get a red push button, black a black one, etc similar to the signio 207 push buttons.


The blue pen is a nice navy blue hue, but since its a liquid roller the line is much thicker than some of my similar tipped gel pens (the pen is labeled 0.7mm).  For some reason you can't really find pens that are 0.3, or 0.4mm in the US.  The "EF" pens that you normally find in a big box store (Staples, etc) is 0.5, sad when you are use to pens that range from 0.28 to 0.4mm.  This is also a pen found in the US market so it lays down a pretty thick line in general.  


I also have a pretty tight grip on my pens, so after writing with the pen for a few minutes writing the review on a rhodia pad (see below) I ended up with slight cramping in my index finger -- and thus realizing that the pen is not for me.  Since I will have no use for this pen, I am giving it away once this review is posted.  


The pen was purchased at Staples, but I assume you can find it at any big box retailer for pretty reasonable price.  If you want a pen that is reliable, and lays a pretty even line and able to lend out to someone without being afraid of it being damaged this would be a pen to get.

So -- in light of the fact that i only had 4 entries.. I'm just going to get 3 other Vision RT's and ship them out to the 4 of you :)  Since I only have 1 currently and I've got to go purchase the other 3 -- slight delay in shipping the pen out to you 4.. but I need mailing addresses for the 3 (I have Sara's)  of you.  Please email me at chunsan_at_gmail_dot_com 

Thanks!

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