Random post of randomness

[innerslytherin]

1. I got a new desk chair today. Huzzah! It seems impossible to find cheap rolling task chairs with no arms. The ones I could find were either available only online (I want to sit in it first, TYVM) or $70, and no way am I going to pay that much for a chair at this point in my financials. But the Gaiam ball chair just wasn't doing it for me. I think if I could make myself sit in it properly, it would be okay, but I tend to straddle it more than actually sitting, and it was putting my sciatica-ridden hip even further out of whack. But I stopped at the local Staples on a whim today and found a task chair on clearance for $27! Woohoo!

2. If anyone is interested in buying said Gaiam ball chair, I'm taking offers. *G* I can keep using it as an exercise ball, but it's just taking up space, and if someone is hankering to try it, I have one for cheap.

3. Have been working on the novel rewrite. Open submissions at a small press that interests me starts on April 16, so I'm doing what amounts to a double-NaNo from March 13 - April 15 or so. Double, because the novel is going to be at least 100,000 words. If I'm lucky. The last draft clocked in somewhere around 200K, which is just too damn long for a debut novel. Fortunately it also featured much Pointless Walking (TM) and since I don't want people to call this "the next Belgariad!!!" I need to cut some of the walking out anyway.

4. Working on the novel was difficult to make myself do, when sitting at the desk wasn't very comfortable. Hence a great deal of my excitement at finding a cheap and appropriate chair.

5. I also bought Mom lots of seeds for her garden today. Can't believe it's been in the 80s all week. In MARCH. Geez, if this is how the spring starts, I am worried about how hot the summer will be. Last year the summer was insufferable and we broke a record for days over 100 or something like that. I would really prefer to stay in the low 90s if possible.

6. I got a coupon off a case of Dr Pepper 10, so I went ahead and bought it. Now I am torn, because their commercials offend me, but it really does taste good. I bought a case of Diet Dr Pepper to see if it tastes as good as I remember.

7. I read a novel recently published by a casual friend of mine. As in, a real publisher, a real novel, with advances and royalties and everything. And...I hate to say it, but the novel mostly sucked. I reeeeally wanted to like it. Fortunately she's a casual friend, really just on Facebook terms. So maybe if I don't mention having read it, she won't ask what I thought? :/

8. Had Little Caesar's for supper. Mmm. Happiness for $5.

9. Okay, there is no #9. I just wanted to keep listing.

Comments

[kerravonsen]

It seems impossible to find cheap rolling task chairs with no arms.
Or expensive ones, either!
When my workplace was replacing our desk chairs the time before last, I basically got one of the other people there to help me remove the arms from my chair. That was my special chair without arms, and woe betide anyone who borrowed it. My chair! Mine!

My current chair at work is also unique; while we were testing out chairs in the most recent round of "replace all the chairs", I pulled a tendon on my hip, and this particular chair was the only one that didn't make it worse. So they got that chair for me, but they got other chairs for everyone else.

[innerslytherin]

Yes, I've noticed people really love arms on their desk chairs. I don't, because if I have arms on my chair, I lean on them and end up with a crick in my back. I tried to take the arms off my last chair, because it was really a nice chair, except for the arms. But unfortunately the structural integrity of the chair was dependent on having those arms, since they were what held the back of the chair on! :P

[lar_laughs.livejournal.com]

That's not the book you told me about, was it?

[innerslytherin]

Not Blood Red Road. That one I read and loved, and I don't know the author, unfortunately. *G*

[chaoticprose.livejournal.com]

I loathe shopping for desk chairs, especially because of cost, so congrats on scoring such a great deal! :)

I'm excited for spring/summer, but am kind of depressed at how warm it is already. :(

I think if I ever got a novel published, I would be afraid to tell too many friends or casual friends for that very reason. Out of twenty people, ten might think it's awesome, and ten might think it's the worst thing they've ever read. Books are weird that way. I probably wouldn't mention having read it to her if I were you, either. ;)

[innerslytherin]

Yeah, thankfully we're not super close friends or anything, so she's not likely to ask me. If she does, I guess I'll think about the parts I loved and mention them specifically. *G*

Yeah, plus with my periodic sciatica flareups, I need some good padding on the seat part. :P

[darkhawkhealer.livejournal.com]

For those of us playing the home game, why do the Dr Pepper 10 commercials offend you?

[innerslytherin]

Oh! Sure. Google "Dr Pepper 10 not for women" and you'll see what I mean.

THIS commercial is a prime example of why.

Same reason those Dodge Charger Super Bowl commercials made me decide not to buy their gorgeous, hot hunk of muscle car.

[hhhellcat.livejournal.com]

1. Yay for awesome chair!
2. Hopefully you can get rid of it and maximize your available floor space. :)
3. Keep at it. I'm still looking forward to the day I can buy a book of yours and put it on my bookshelf!
4. Trying to do something at a computer when your body is uncomfortable makes it a miserable task. I'm glad you've got that sorted.
5. The weather up there is screwy! It's kind of screwy here too, but not in the extremes of temperature that you all have been experiencing.
6. I really don't like Dr. Pepper in any form so... yay that you got the coupon? I don't really see Dr. Pepper commercials here, either. I shall have to google and see what the deal is.
7. Mmm, I figure a don't ask, don't tell policy would work best, especially if you're just casual friends. ;)
8. I miss Little Caesar's. Ours closed about 15 years ago and we never got another. I used to drive Boog nuts when we'd go to visit his family because I'd insist on going there, even though the last thing he wanted to eat while at home was pizza.
9. Lists are fun!

[innerslytherin]

I'm looking forward to the day you can buy a book of mine too! :D

There's a link to one of the Dr Pepper 10 commercials that annoys me in a link further up.

Little Caesar's has changed form a bit here. We had LC when I was a kid, and it was "Pizza! Pizza!" and you got two pizzas for a set price. They were around for about 10 or 15 years, then they vanished. About five years ago, they came back into the area, but the deal was different. Now they're advertising "Hot and Ready" or something like that, and for $5 you can get a ready-made pepperoni, cheese, or sausage pizza. Add $4 and you get Crazy Bread too. It's a good way to feed three people for less than $10 though!

Clearly I need to talk Dad into buying into the franchise and building a Little Caesar's in Hilo. *G* He's always wanted to see the USS Arizona memorial...