Today’s neat thing: a working furnace. I am freezing to death, even with mine running, and I cannot imagine the misery of not having one! And by working furnace, I mean central heating. Because when you are really cold, all the rice in China, all the gold chains in Solomon’s Mines won’t help you be warm. Unless you burn it. And if I am cold enough, I just might. Good thing we get to heat more efficiantly with electricity and oil.
Okay, I have poured all over this truck accessories site, and the neatest thing I found was a basket that you attach to the trailer hitch of your truck. It holds up to 500 pounds, and folds up when you aren’t using it. I don’t have a truck or a trailer myself, so I don’t know if you can use it while you aren’t hauling anything, and I also don’t understand how you can possibly need it if you are driving a pick-up. Of course, I guess all spaces fill up eventually, huh?
I did it to myself, I know. I did not exercise proper talent management. I got greedy and I got lazy, and I spread myself too thin, and now I am dealing with the consequences. That doesn’t mean that it didn’t hurt to find out no one EVER comes here. It does mean that I need to decide what I am going to do about it.
Ok, like most of you, I am pretty cynical when it comes to lawyers and medical malpractice suits. It really chaps me that there are actual living breathing semi-humans who make a highly desirable living suing some people over other people’s suffering. Sometimes, bad stuff happens, and it’s nobody’s fault. It’s just life, the way life is, with all it’s vagaries and uncertainties.
So, it is with particular delight that I get to link to this site on mesothelioma. No, I am not being sarcastic. While it is run by lawyers, there are actual pages of information there on causes and treatments, links to more resources, and even information for non-traditional treatments. Yeah, I’m shocked, too. I’ll get over it, I suppose.
Yep, spawned directly from my previous post on books, let’s talk about shelves. I have several sets of book shelves in my home, and I want to let you know that book shelves do not have to come from furniture stores. Now, I think everyone ought to have at least one nice set of bookshelves to hold truly special books and a couple of phots and such as this, but if, like me, your books number in the thousands, you eventually have a decision to make: a nice set of shelves or more books, and if you are as passionate as I am about books, that is likely to be your choice.
My best bookcase tip? Dollar General and Family Dollar sell a set of three shelves with round black supports for 15 or 20 bucks. Get two or three of them and stack them together to make a sets 4 or 5 shelves high. (Bonus: use the leftover shelves to add storage space in your pantry.)
I am having a hard time getting back in to the swing of things here on Six Neat Things. I had my Grandmother’s death, and then Christmas, and then a significant household rearrangement to create a library, and I have just fallen off the wagon. In truth, it takes a lot of effort to talk about stuff like modern office furniture in a three pronged post, and sometimes, I just can’t do it.
The sad thing is that this used to be one of my favorite blogs, and I am more and more having trouble with it. It is the poorest performing blog I have, but I just cannot let go of it. I keep thinking I have it handled, and I keep getting sucker punched, but I will have this blog, and it will be good. Eventually.
So, back to the tittle of this post: BOOKS. This post’s three things are history BOOKS, science BOOKS and poetry BOOKS all neatly shelved in my library beside all my other BOOKS. I just need one more bookcase, and I can get this gargantuan stack off my desk.
Continuing today’s videographical postings, let me show you three great resources for folks who like old movies. First up, Blockbuster Online, where you can rent them.
Second, Amazon, where you can buy classic movies
Third, Stargate, where they carry rare movie posters, so you can share the love. And by that, I do mean hang it on the wall for others to see, not give it away. Unless it’s of Marilyn to Me.
The neatest tv accessory ev-ar is a working remote, preferably one that controls the DVD and the TV. Mine went on the fritz last night, after being held in a hot sweaty 8 year old hand for most of the day, and I was so frustrated I almost cried. Now, admittedly, they broke the actual dvd remote last week, and so I considered myself lucky to have found this remote AND the instructions, AND being able to program it. Let me just say, if you are watching episodes of a tv show on dvd??? All those fancy schmancy HDMI switches aren’t worth nearly as much as a remote so you can use the menu/fast forward. In fact, last week, we had to watch a movie here on the laptop, because the first item on the menu wasn’t play, so we couldn’t get it to play at all without a remote.
PS, my kids were shocked to find out tvs used to have dials on the front. Yeah.
Okay, so recent nights have found me on the couch way too often. If you’ve ever tried to fit two adults and two squirmy kids in one queen bed, this post will certainly resonate with your sleepless self. If you were (ever so slightly) overcrowded in your current sleeping accommodations, would you choose to buy a larger traditional bed, look into platform beds, or just throw some mattresses down on the floor and call it good? Bear in mind that I am not getting any younger before choosing option 3, just because it is probably the easiest and cheapest.
What were your favorite three Christmas presents, and what do you need to go with them? I’ve not received any favorites yet, (except for what I bought myself) but unlike most of you, my Christmas isn’t over. So tell me, did you need a plasma tv lift to go with your gift? What about a set of brushes? What about an extra set of keys? Spill it in the comments.
TerraVox, which is a photoblog that I found in my referrals. Color me jealous and hand me a towel to wipe up the drool before you head on over. You’ll have to scroll down through the ads to get to the pictures, but it’s totally worth it.
The Letter Project, mentioned by my friend Jenn.
A site where they sell diet pills, but I decided to eat another Christmas cookie instead.
A different twist today. Instead of telling you what to go look at, I’ll save you sometime and tell you about some things to avoid.
First, speeding. No fun if you get a ticket, possible dangerous, and also, slow down and enjoy the ride. It could be the last trip you’ll ever take.
Second, legal steroids. Legal or not, they’re just bad for you.
Third, margarine. Just go ahead and use the butter. It takes so much better and you need so much less of it that it all evens out in the end calorie wise. Also, you can pronounce all the ingredients, which is a good thing when we’re talking about something that goes in your mouth.
