'shopping' Category
Report on one-bag light packing experiment
Experiment failed. Well, that’s not strictly true – according to the scientific method, the experiment succeeded in disproving my hypothesis. LAB REPORT Hypothesis: one- bag method is more pleasant way to travel in all or almost all cases. Test subject: ten day business trip to Japan. No customer meetings but 15” laptop and reasonably professional [...]
NAYY (website review)
I’m not putting this under a cut because a fair number of people are interested in either bras or website usability, in addition to those who care about both. Just now I was looking up some bras. (And by the way the reason I was looking them up was to find out what I’m getting [...]
this is why it’s really not a good thing when I get in shopping mode
What I meant to buy today: short pajama bottoms and a soap dish, maybe some groceries. What I actually bought: um, pretty much a spring summer wardrobe. Two dresses, one skirt, two cardigans, and a bunch of layering pieces (3 camisoles, 2 long-sleeved tissue weight jerseys, two pair leggings. And a skyblue knit slip dress). [...]
stuff I did today
One of the things I’m looking forward to in the Netherlands is the likelihood of an apartment with some soundproofing. We did sometimes have to sleep with earplugs because we lived right in the Centrum, right by the bars, and it got loud when they had things like the celebration for PSV winning the European [...]
stuff!
This is a bit silly: below is a picture of all the stuff I accumulated during my trip.] That includes stuff I bought on the trip as well as stuff waiting for me when I got back here. Missing from photo: one pair jeans (currently in the dryer), two fleece pullovers and some yarn (currently [...]
how many boats is too many?
I’m tempted to send the Mommy sock to my friend to go with the Baby sock for her daughter. Only one problem: there’s another daughter (not to mention two sons). I think I can send just one pair of socks and not create too much angst but if I start getting inclusive I can’t leave [...]
poised on the horns
Currently the major dilemmas in my life are all minor – well, there’s a big job decision, but I think either option would be OK. Harry Potter – to be spoiled or not? I’ve read several of the spoilers out there. They contradict each other, and I think I’m best off just to wait and [...]