My chair was recalled...

[cybermystic]

The desk chair I bought a few years ago was recalled. Apparently the weld on the base has been known to break causing the base to separate from the seat. The potential for injury is obvious. I've been sitting on the chair just about daily in the years I've had it and haven't had the weld fail yet. Though looking at it, it's plainly visible that it's not a good weld. I wasn't going to bother with the recall until someone recently reminded me that people do visit me occasionally and many of those people are heavier than I am. I'm a fairly small person. Someone closer to average adult weight or heavier might be just heavy enough to break the weld. After more thought I went ahead and took it to the nearest store and got a gift card in return for it.

I had intended to buy a new chair while I was there but upon looking at the rather meager selection of chairs they had I couldn't find one that appealed to me.  At the moment I'm sitting on a rather uncomfortable stool as I type this. It'll be a week before I can get a ride to another store to look for a new chair.

I'm not really sure what I'm going to do in the meantime. I guess I won't be sitting at this console all that much. I'm still not really up to speed on the new computer and I'm still hoping I might be able to get the old one up and running again.

My lower back is starting to ache so I'm going to close here. I'll try to post something again soon.