Category Archives: things and more things

all things tangible and usable: power tools, car dashboards, gadgets, hand tools, chairs, tea cups, vacuum cleaners and lightbulbs; the accessibility, arrangement, usability, storage, and organization thereof.

An entire assortment of lessons learned. 0

After the last week or so of nonstop go-go-go (with the final note of it all being the news a friend is shipping off to Iraq for a month, sigh), I realized the best sanity saver is to avoid deep thoughts and chase the shiny, which for me will always be How To Occupy Space. [...]

is it spring yet, because this feels like cleaning. 0

My grandmother used to call it “getting or-gin-ized,” where /gin/ is the same as the alcoholic beverage.
Right on the tails of the Amazing Wardrobe Reconstruction, I seem to be feeling this sudden flare-up of Virgoan Organization Syndrome, which is quite peculiar. It only happens about every two or three years, and it’s quite terrifying; there [...]