Thursday 06/15/2023
I had to call off going to Shustek today because of an AV thing. In theory, all resident run events are scheduled a month in advance. There’s a process, an online form that gets filled out, so the event will be on the monthly calendar, and so the A/V team will know about it and schedule somebody at our month-end meeting to do the tech. So this event, a memorial, excuse me celebration of life, for a recently deceased resident, got scheduled late and owing to some errors (not by me) the notification didn’t get to me until the end of last week. And nobody was available to do it. So I am the AV of last resort, and I canceled going to Shustek to turn on the mics and tv for this 1pm event.
Did the gym round in the morning. My big toe is better, still a bit tender but I can walk without limping. Anyway, got the event going. Then what to do with the rest of the day? I got in the car and went first to the hardware store where I got some CA glue which I needed, and also a new bottle of Tide, ditto. Then to FOPAL where there were three boxes of computer books, out of which nearly a dozen turned out to be “high value” i.e. over $25. So yay.
The CA glue? Silly thing. Way back in 2020 when we were all eating in our rooms, Dining Services (then Sodexo) offered everybody their own salt and pepper shakers. Plastic ones. I kept mine on my dining table and over the 2+ years since, it has gotten nearly empty. So I thought I would replace it. A couple days ago I went by the grocery store and in the spice area they had little salt&pepper sets, made of cardboard, $4.69. But down below, they had 16-oz Morton’s salt containers, $2.40. Well, hell, thinks I, I will get a lifetime supply and be able to refill my plastic shaker 30, 40 times for half the price of one.
Got home and went to pry the bottom off the plastic shaker and, oh dear. It didn’t snap in or screw in; it was glued in. The plastic shaker was never meant to be refilled. Well ok I will refill it and glue it back. So I put masking tape over the holes in the top, and fill it up, and try to glue in the base using model car glue. Nope, it wouldn’t hold on this kind of plastic. Only answer obvs. was CA (“super”) glue. So I got that today and completed the repair. Ready for another couple years of eating in my room.
Codgerville 