It’s the little things, as long as they blow
I felt so cutting edge Sunday night, with both fan-on-a-stick and superpillow! I also picked up a full-spectrum bulb for my bedside table lamp, went food shopping, got the cool LED tap-light (a cheapo one though, but still cool) and a bunch of hangers. I think I want to do drapes in my bedroom and start figuring out a dining room game plan. I sort of want to repaint my bedroom too… I was thinking of going with a darker blue, but I’m not 100% yet. I think it’ll look better with the floor and furniture, and some B&W prints on white mattes with silver frames would look really good.
Who’s distracted with workday ADD? This guy.
Review: New Superpillow
A little background — I’d bought one of those foam neck pillows from Blood Bath and Beyond about 2 years ago and it’s been the star of my bed ever since. The new Superpillow is known in the retail world as the Tempur-Pedic Neck Pillow (extra thick), and retails for $130 from Brookstone. It’s pretty firm, and it’s comfortable, with great head-neck alignment, but it’s a bit much when I roll over on my stomach, but still was nice for the first lay-down. My main problem is that every time I woke up I couldn’t help starting to think about how the pillowfelt and mentally contrasting it with Superpillow JR which was demoted to the other side of the bed. After a second night, I’m decided that it’s going back to Brookstone. The Extra thick one’s just too thick, which translates into extreme firmness. As a result, I wake up almost hourly and never really get comfortable. I’ll try the regular thickness and report back.
Review: Fan on a stick
This is my second fan-on-a-stick (my name for floor-standing fans), the 10″ 3-Speed Blizzard by Holmes. I gave my last one to Rachael last summer since her apartment turned into a furnace in the summer unless she resigned herself to signing over all her paychecks to the gents at BG&E. Fan-on-a-stick’s just like I remember it from my last one: holy shit, that’s a lot of air coming at me. It’s a little louder than your average floor-stand fan, but since it moves enough atmosphere to make the big bad wolf wish he had one, that’s forgivable. The only shortcoming is one I noted before — it needs one more extension rod, because it’s just level with the top of my bed. I emailed the manufacturer, but I think I might just make something, since I’m expecting their response to be any of the following:
1. just go buy another one, and use its rods, then you have an extra fan.
2. suck it
3. no, we don’t sell those, but here’s our catalog of fans so you can buy a taller one
4. we have them lying around but you can’t buy them
5. they were all sold to a dildo company to be reshaped and marketed to girls who didn’t want to go out with you in highschool
Career Opportunities
*singing* …the ones that never knock…I’ve been toying with the idea of a new career lately, something completely un-computery. Like what, you ask? Maybe being an architect, since I’ve always have a knack for math and 3D modeling, and that whole creative thing. Maybe engineering, since it’s a great place for people into puzzles and problem solving, not to mention people with a knack for math and science. Or possibly a novelist, which I think everyone I know has suggested I delve into at one point or another. I was just thinking about all of the schooling and degrees needed, and how long I’d need to stay in the web game to fund all of that, and I think that might be a bit defeatist. Get a masters as a Nuclear Engineer, after 5 years of night classes, and a starting salary that would probably be half where I’d be 5 years from now doing what I’m doing. Maybe I’ll just try to get the freelance business booming again… write novels in my spare time, and retire early so I can walk the streets at night rambling about fans and pillows.
Do you have to be good at math for that? Awesome.