Friday, April 13, 2012 - Elephant Butte Lake State Park, Elephant Butte NM
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New Leather iPad Brief
Two issues briefly
One. My new iPad is one slippery beast to handle. None of the many available covers and cases designed to solve that problem please me. I finally came up with a design that works for me a couple weeks back (more on that tomorrow).
Two, I still needed a case to serve as a slip case around the house and as a carry case to go wandering off to the coffee shop. I finally worked that issue out yesterday.
I ended up with a simple leather envelope with two pockets; one for the iPad and one for a small sketchbook/notebook. A flap that tucks inside around the house in slipcase mode and closes the envelope in travel mode. The leather is a piece of goatskin bookbinding leather with the rough, sueded, side out for grip.
Simple. I like it.
Night camp
Site 10 - Paseo del Rio Campground - Elephant Butte Lake State Park, Elephant Butte NM
- Verizon cell phone service - very good
- Verizon EVDO service - very good
- Find other references to Elephant Butte on this website
- List the nights I've camped here
- Go to the Elephant Butte Lake State Park website
- Get a Google map of this area
- Check the weather here
Stay What You Always Were
My sisters have been listening to me all my life and vice versa, and there's a limit to how interesting we find each other. Which is one of the reasons, surely -- this is exactly the kind of thought that didn't come up in conversation -- that it is at least as stifling as it is comforting to be with family. It doesn't allow its members to experiment with themselves. The penalty for being loyally accepted for the whole of your life is that you must stay what you always were.
Almost There: The Onward Journey of a Dublin Woman, Nuala O'Faolain