Today

[polyfrog]

• Cleaned everything off of the filing cabinet behind my chair. Much trash thrown out in this process.
• Unearthed extra long active USB extension cable.
• Added powered USB hub to the end of same.
• Moved long-disused (like, over a year) inkjet printer to top of filing cabinet.
• Moved used-every-day scanner to the top of the filing cabinet (and thus out of

Comments

[atlanticat]

Consider making a tea out of some dried chiles and soaking the drawstrings of your blinds in same before restringing? As long as there's a dangle of some sort attached to the ends of the drawstrings and you always pull the dangle, you should avoid inadvertently causing yourself pain whilst simultaneously keeping the cats away.

[polyfrog]

They gnawed off the dangle.
(It used to look like this:
======o-----<
Where the o and < are plastic bits. The strings from the two sides come down to a bobble, then there is a heavier string that you pulled on, with another bobble at the end. I have the round bobble (gnawed off and fallen behind the filing cabinet), the end bobble is gone now.)

[polyfrog]

I found the heavy string and second bobble.
Maybe I'll replace the whole mess with cable; tigertail for the working cords and something slightly heavier for the o-----< part. I have some thin steel cable lying around I could use for that.

[bammba_m]

gah, i imagine steel cable to be a nasty surprise when chomping.

[polyfrog]

Exactly. Remember, Réné has a scar on one side of her mouth from an electrical burn where she gnawed through a light cord.