Blog ≫ 2022 ≫ Chair in, jury out
The new chair from IKEA is in. I'm not 100% convinced, and Clare does not like it. The boys like it, it is comfortable and that, but it does hog the room a bit, doesn't go with anything, and most importantly looks a bit cheap. I'm hoping it will wear in, the cover is quite good on the arms but the same material on the back panel looks like cheap vinyl. The front room does look cluttered, I will see if I can stage the room a bit better. I need to choose another of the bits of furniture to get rid of to compensate for the space now taken.
Here's me in the new chair:
which prompted an unkind friend to send me this:
though to be fair that is kind of the look I was going for. Off to get my hair cut today now.
Here's another look at the chair, thing two making the most of being allowed to sit in it for ONE DAY ONLY, then they are both barred. He found the recliner:
DIY job for tomorrow is to sort out those trailing cables you can see in the background. It is just an extension lead so they can plug in phone chargers in that corner. I've got another socket with USB built in that will fix that a bit more tidily. Ooh then the electrician is coming one evening this week to do even more stuff. Or at least, to size the job up.
Regular parkrun today, my first run of the week. It was very cold out, and I did not feel like going, and I was wondering if I really should anyway. I'm on call this weekend, so must respond on the phone and be within half hour of the laptop to work. I was thinking of taking the boys and leaving them in the cafe with my laptop, but Clare was not working, so I took the car and left the computer there. No call anyway, no calls at all this week, which is good. Anyway it was so cold I wore my hoodie for the whole run. I was thinking at first "just get round this" and had a gentle first kilometre at exactly five minutes, but then picked up the pace after that. If I'd gone for it from the outset it could have been a fast one. 23'38 in the end. As well as being cold it was windy, but the wind was always blowing across us so did not assist nor slow me down.
Work very very busy, we are live with phase one of our project and all gone smoothly so far, though a mix-up has meant we are not seeing as much traffic as we should. We will be sent a lot more customers on Monday, so if there are issues that's when they will show. Then phase two is about ready and should be going live on Tuesday. It has all gone pretty well so far I think. I well deserve my day off which I'll be taking later this week.
Strangely someone knocked the door yesterday, do I want to sell the beetle? I should have said yes, said probably not, guy said he would like to see it repaired, I said repair it for me, and now he keeps texting me. I'm not so sure I should hand it over to some random who knocked on the door. Clare thinks someone stealing it is probably the best option. I will go back to my original choice of fixer and see what they say.
Clare contacted the blinds company, they are so busy they can't come out to measure for two months, but at least it's underway now. That's one job done, and another is I cleared all the bags of charity shop stuff out of the study. It looks slightly less "Hoarders: Buried Alive" down there. But only slightly. There is room for that chair...
Twenty four years ago today I was at Highbury Garage for the Dandy Warhols, I think it was their first UK gig. I liked them a lot at the time and their music has stood the test of time, aged a lot better than other bands I have loved.
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