Miscellany: the Good, the Bad, and the Stupid

[stoutfellow]

1. On the day before my birthday, I ordered a present for myself from Studio Foglio. It arrived yesterday. I now have all five published volumes of Girl Genius. :contented sigh:

2. The zipper on my heavy winter coat has given up the ghost. Having the teeth come apart is bad enough. Locking up, so I can't unzip all the way and have to pull the coat over my (winter-shaggy) head, is considerably worse. Nonetheless, I bless the designers of the coat for including buttons. I'll still have to buy a new coat, but at least I won't freeze in between.

3. In the men's room near the Math Department today, I noticed that one of the two sinks was hanging about five degrees below horizontal. It was pulled four inches or so out from the wall, and one of the two input pipes was clearly disconnected. Above the sink? A sign: DO NOT USE. Gee, ya think?

Comments

[countrycousin.livejournal.com]

I got a nice winter coat about 15 years ago. During the first winter, several of the zipper teeth came out during an over-vigorous attempt to clear a jam.[1]

I'm still using it. It has snaps, not buttons, and some of them are getting weak. I suppose I'll have to replace it some day. DW just added some velcro at a strategic point, so maybe that day isn't during this year or next.

[1] The zipper is still usable, if one is careful, because it is bidirectional. But when it jams now I pull the coat over my head and pay close attention to the jam. I only use it when it is very cold - below 0.

[hornedhopper.livejournal.com]

Stay warm! Good thing you have your winter mane on, ne?

Re sink? Never underestimate the power of a person thinking about something else. I've seen people try to use all sorts of broken things. Including me. Er, that is, *I* have tried to use something that just *won't* work. When my attention is finally fixed on that fact, I realize that anyone *might* have seen that it was broken... :)