Seasonal Footwear

Posted 7 Dec 2010

Clothing, Daily Life | 2 Comments 

When the air temperature drops to single digits (Fahrenheit) and the wind-chill takes it below zero, I know it is the right day to swap from my flip flops, to my winter slippers.

Oh yes, I know that some folks out there wear slippers every day. Others even wear slippers at work.  But that’s not the life for me. I am a slippers-at-home-during-the-winter kind of guy.

(Lest we lose track, I believe this calls for an update of ChickenMonkeyDog’s Slipper-related post count.  It is now at 3.)

Why you gotta lie to me?

Posted 7 Sep 2010

Clothing, Daily Life, Signs | 8 Comments 

Does anyone else find it irritating when stores use advertisements stating that everything is on sale, only to use the next line to specify exceptions?

I have seen this sort of advertisement often enough to know that one can’t believe the initial promise, still it is aggravating.

Why not just say “almost everything”? Or at the very least you could leave out the “absolutely” in “absolutely everything” when you know for a fact that not everything is included.

Non-disposable shorts

Posted 13 Aug 2010

Clothing, Signs | 3 Comments 

So, does Dickies mean that the pocket shorts that had this tag attached to it could be worn more than once … or that they could also serve as, say, a hat, a jacket or a nice table mat? You tell me.

Hot and Twisted

Posted 11 Aug 2010

Clothing, Daily Life | 2 Comments 

Today’s post comes at you from experiences during one of the more mundane daily tasks of my life. Running laundry.

Despite the number of times I’ve run laundry machines, I am stunned at how often I mess something up.

Forget the soap. Mix colors that bleed. Shrink clothes. Etc.

How frustrating!

Today I ran some clothes through the wash, loaded them into the dryer and set it on a thirty minute drying cycle. All fairly routine so far. After about forty-five minutes I come back to find that the dryer has stopped turning, but that the timer was only about three minutes gone out of the thirty.  Hmm, curious.

Opening the door, I found that the clothes were still quite wet, and for a bonus prize, they were twisted about two thousand times around each other. Apparently, while loading clothes, the elastic band from some of my gym shorts caught on the door latch.  All the other clothes had gotten twisted up in this mess too, so it took me five minutes just to unravel it all.

Not a good situation = Being stuck on to a stationary part on the inside of a dryer when the tumbling begins.

Who else has had random, quirky and perhaps frustrating laundry experiences to share?

Over-stuffed, but under-filled

Posted 21 Jul 2010

Clothing, Commuting, Daily Life, The Little Things | 1 Comment 

Wrapping up my time abroad, I faced a problem that so many travelers do. So much more to bring home than I brought there.

I like to travel light, so I only had one big bag and one small bag. It took hours of arranging, squeezing and cajoling to pack everything into these two bags.  I even had to ask my friend to lend me a hand to close the zipper.

And at the end of it all, what do I discover?

I’d left one of the outside pockets completely empty! Oh the joys of packing. Wah-wah-wah.