So until I found this video and became obsessed with the thing taped to her body, my only Birthmonth gift to myself was a power floor washer/vaccum called a crosswave. If you have a ton of bare floors, it's great! It will vacuum and clean wet or dry messes and leave your floor almost dry. For me it means I don't have to sweep then mop. I can do ( Read more... )

I decided to splurge on a fancy cat tree.

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I bought a new tablet, even though I thought I shouldn't, because google "upgraded" my nexus 10 into brokenness. I wish I hadn't. I hadn't realized the resolution of the 10 was good enough to out class current tablets and my new one has poor resolution. I think this wouldn't be as much of a problem if it didn't also have a shitty number of ( Read more... )

This is going to sound like a post full of complaints. I want to say that these are nice problems to have and more observations and maybe even asking for advice ( Read more... )

With hulu shutting down its free service, I once again wanted to look for a cheap dvr.  The well known names (TIVO)  want to sell you a scheduling service which drives the price far out of my budget.   Surely there was something out there that would just act like a VCR but record to a hard drive?   Turns out, yes, but  it was hiding under " ( Read more... )

G and I are likely going to get a new weight machine and elliptical soon, but first we have to get rid  of the old ones.   Someone is coming to see the weight machine today, but the elliptical is a bigger issue, partly because it's heavy enough that we can't carry it down the stairs without risking our backs.    We also can't transport it easily.   ( Read more... )

Because the school of honk trombones look so cool, I bought a plastic trombone (pbone). It arrived damaged, but I fixed it with a little hammer. Some how playing taps is easier than using the slide.

BLAT!

EDIT: I made a video!

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So for my birthmonth I was going to finally get, after years of wanting one, a handpan. While I was looking, I bid on I really really liked, and then the guy removed the auction. Then I found out there is a company who will be making electronic handpans, which I thought "that's silly, but look at all these ways it is better than a real handpan. ( Read more... )

Even though I'm about average height for a woman, I've always had the problem that chairs are all too tall for me. Currently I'm sitting in a child's gaming ottoman chair. DX racer is a high end gaming chair. As an office chair, it would still be too tall for me, so I decided to try their console gaming chair.

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Since I undeniably live in suburbia now and, more importantly, because my house is growing green stuff, I bought a pressure washer ( Read more... )