(From the Air Quality Division, University webcam.)
The air is still very bad. Some hope for Monday, and next week. Nothing new, but recently worse.
D was exasperated with the current desk/cable nest situation, so we worked out a way to get rid of the desk, by putting up shelves and getting a table we could both sit at. Since me at the kitchen counter brought other problems, which is to say me whining about everything being put on what I used as a desk, from keys to food and dirty dishes, to mail and gloves. We have already got our taxes figured, if not officially, so we are using a small portion of the expected return to make this place more livable. And we can sit together while online, again.
We weren't going to actually buy anything today. But the only furniture store where we figured we'd find anything worth having, was unexpectedly going out of business. Not quite the bad news it seems, since the owner was just ready to sell up and retire to join the Peace Corps, no debts, not a matter of the economy. And we got a great deal on a solid alder table just the right size. Got it in the car, dismantled. So, we had to clear out the desk, with no other place to put the table. Picked up serviceable shelves. The desk went within an hour of being listed on Craigslist, picked up and paid for. Well, we passed on the spirit of economy, and they got a great deal too.
The shelves will go up when our building maintenance guys drill the holes. They prefer to do that, and we like it that way as well.
Of course D had to do a lot of cable and cord sorting, with lots of dust mopped and vacuumed by me. Everything in a silent uproar of clutter. Moby circled us suspiciously. He would prefer we never moved or cleaned anything ever, but he doesn't get to vote.
He gets to glare.
(That's him on the shelf of the cat tree, staring at me balefully.)
Shortly after, once we moved his stool in place, he figured out that he can lounge between us, and that is ideal. We've been provisionally forgiven.
6 comments:
Congrats on the new table/computer home space.
Am so very sorry about the palpable air where you live. That's so far worse, so it seems, than the smog I encountered when living in southern California.
Hope you three are rid of it soon.
:)
Crow,
Actually, this is probably much like the smog in CA. Cars and factory emissions in a valley inversion. Colder here, it's a winter phenomenon.
wow, that is some pea souper. We used to get them in London many years ago, when I was a child. Is this a new phenomenon as a result of recent pollution?
Rosie,
This valley has always been prone to winter haze, but the toxicity and duration has been worsening, and this is the most persistent stretch of it I remember since first moving here 24 years ago. It's definitely a matter of factories and cars.
There used to be lead smelters, making the air in the bottom extremely poisonous, which is why the main hospital was built up on a hill. Lots of lung disease and arsenic poisoning.
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Cable nests......I hate cable nests. We have one in the sitting room and one ( fortunately) out of the way under A's desk which is in the laundry ( small house, therefore built in desk in laundry).
Awful about your air quality, I could send you some of ours in a box. It's hot air but smells of eucalypts.
Word verif.......mists.
herhimnbryn,
Laundry room/office, yeah I could see that. Even with twist ties and zip ties, the nests form and collect dust.
If you could, that would be great. I love the smell of eucalyptus, I add that essential oil to every load of laundry to kill dust mites.
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