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2024-06-04 09:27 pm

Broken Chair

I had a chair problem start on Sunday: two of the wheel assemblies in my office chair just snapped right under me. Bought the chair barely half a year ago because the older office chair was starting to lean a bit to one side.

Bought the chair from Jysk barely half a year ago because the older office chair was starting to lean a bit to one side.

In theory, I could find replacement parts and install them myself. I don't think I can find the right part(s), though. Not fast enough. The chair that broke is a Snertinge from Jysk. Bought it six months ago. I'm currently down to two options from Staples:

1) Serta Brinkley
2) Staples Turcotte Luxura

Recommendations, anyone?
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2023-08-23 09:26 pm
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One Thing Resolved

Basement ceiling repairs are done.

More on other topics tomorrow morning, I hope.
dewline: Three question marks representing puzzlement (Puzzlement 2)
2022-12-16 07:12 pm

Pandemic: Air Purifier Question

Anyone using a Bissell MyAir device at home or office? Or in their home office?

Looking for opinions.
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2022-05-16 10:30 am
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2021-09-21 08:26 am

After the 2021 Election Vote

So...it seems we've managed to hold onto the status quo ante electionem in Canada. I'm settled up with my dentist until next year. I still have a roof over my head for now. I've got an interview with one of the temp companies later this morning.

Oh, and the Ottawa Animation Festival and Typewknd 2021 are both getting underway soonish?

It's a start.
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2021-08-31 04:54 pm

Checking In - 31 August 2021

Things that got done today:
  • Kept up the job search.
  • Tried to push onward with CPAP acquisition paperwork.
  • Mowed the front lawn.
  • Got some sketchbook time in.
  • Got walking exercise.
  • Updated my Affinity design software.
  • Returned an overdue book to the library without drama.
  • Stayed in touch with family.
  • Stayed in touch with friends.

Adding tonight:

  • Watching an interview of a respected author of political satire (Terry Fallis).
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2021-08-26 07:44 pm

Checking In - 26 August 2021

And the heat warnings keep on keeping on hereabouts. We might expect some rain on Saturday. Maybe. It's not a certainty yet.

Household's been quieter today than earlier in the week, for which I am grateful.

Expecting some entertainment from Lower Decks later tonight.

Managed to remember to check my browser bookmarks for websites I haven't looked at in months for job search purposes, which was good.

Not feeling doomed at the moment, which is also good.
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2021-01-17 09:47 am
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Driveways and Windrows

I don't own a car. I don't drive. But I live in a house that has a driveway, and that driveway has to be kept clear enough to get at least a single car/van/truck/police cruiser/ambulance in and out safely enough. Which, these days, often falls to me, with snowblower and shovel(s).

Overnight, the city's snowplows re-complicated that process. With a metre-tall hard-packed windrow. I think I managed to clear enough of that obstruction, but one of the household shovels had its handle grip snap off in mid-chopdown, and a second is about to have its plastic "blade" break into pieces sooner or later. This is not going to be fun to deal with, I expect.

(Have since found that handle grips are available as a separate product.)
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2019-11-23 07:43 am
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Versions of Home Long Dead

Seanan McGuire made a point about the versions of "Home" we keep on carrying with us, no matter what other people said about and did to those versions back when they actually existed physically.

There were things about living out west that I hated and feared. That I was glad to be away from when I moved here to Ottawa-Gatineau. There are things that I was and still am glad to have found when I got here. I didn't go through gentrification (yet), and my city may be less hard-hit by climate derangement during the rest of my lifetime than other parts of this planet.

But I realize now that it still hurt that I felt that I had to leave in the first place. Being able to fly away to a place that felt like it was going to be healthier for me...and was and still is, in several ways...doesn't detract from that hurt.
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2019-10-02 07:19 pm
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Homemade Philosophy

From 2009. It applies to me first of all.

Homemade philosophy
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2019-02-13 07:27 am
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Okay. Not going in to the day job today. I have let my supervisor know this, and started work on clearing the walkway from the front door to the driveway. The driveway looks like it's going to need more than the snowblower to get that part of the work done. And then, there's the task of clearing a pathway in the back yard to the ventilation pipes for furnace and water heater to make sure that those aren't obstructed.
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2016-04-30 08:44 am

CBC Docs: WiFi Network Names

I've seen some weird ones myself around Ottawa-Gatineau. So this sampling from metro Toronto doesn't seem too bizarre.

How about where you live?

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2012-01-05 04:00 pm

Walk-Up Apartments

While checking out [livejournal.com profile] spacing_ottawa's sister weblogs, I came across an entry of interest re: the "intensification" doctrine of urban redevelopment in older neighbourhoods: The Genius of Walk-Up Apartments. Written by Alex Bozikovic and Toronto-focused, I'm finding myself thinking that this does have applications across the country if not the planet.

Opinions?