Christmas in October
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TODAY'S RAMBLINGS
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Happy Monday and what election? I am going to try (try) to breathe for the next week plus - or whenever this clusterfuck gets settled.
As a brief distraction, I am highlighting a cool service/product I discovered after - horrors - having to use paper luggage tags during our recent trip to Italy. Unbeknownst to us, our real ones had been sheered off on a previous trip, so we had to go paper.
For wannabe jetsetters like us, that won’t do. As I waited for our luggage from Rome to appear at SFO (as I’ve mentioned, it would be a 2 day wait for Julie), I noticed that luggage tags - paper and otherwise - are mostly boring. Most are not particularly bright or distinctive, so you can easily spot your bag among the rest.
I pondered - out loud, naturally - that there must be an online service that makes custom luggage tags. Of course there is; indeed, there are many.
But we used Luggage Pros, and for $10/each, they sent us the tags above - which we love and find to be of very high quality and dare I say unbreakable? The metal loop is especially serious and a no-brainer upgrade. They can use any photo and look what I used - shocker.
And a reminder before sharing: I have no relationship with this website, and will not receive any kickback should you buy something. It’s just a good product - and an inexpensive and somewhat unique gift.
MyFly Personalized Luggage Tag
FROM THE UNWASHED MASSES
I never thought there’d be an opportunity to cite and agree with Bill Kristol, but:
I think Harris nonetheless has a good chance to win. If she does, people will explain how their personal favorite part of the campaign was key to her success. But the fact is, even if she loses, she will have done as well as could have reasonably been expected.
Of course, people will ignore that and blame her. The losing candidate always gets thrown under the bus. But it will be wrong to do so. It’s been up to us, for a decade, to stop the bus of authoritarianism and nativism, of demagoguery and dissimulation, barreling down the highway. If that bus completes its dark journey ten days from now, we’ll be to blame.
Thank you for reading this newsletter.
KLUF
Rest in peace, Phil Lesh.
