Engaging self obsession

Michael Barrish writes: Google changed my life. This says something about my life. I find this blogger’s self obsession engaging. He carries a bag everywhere, he says. He describes its contents in forensic detail:

In contrast with my girlfriend, who only carries what she thinks she will need on a given excursion, I always carry the exact same items, all of which pass a certain informal test for combined usefulness and compactness.