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...actually, I went out for a while. Hung out this morning online, chatted with people on the 'fort mush, played neopets, and fiddled about whilst listening to music.
Contemplated writing and decided that I wasn't that motivated. Read the rest of the D20 articles I didn't read yesterday, discovered I could largely have skipped them (as surmised). Oh, well.
Then I measured the library for shelves and went out to hunt. I wish we had (have? if we have, wish I knew about--) a decent place for modular furniture. Nothing I saw is, functionally, enough like what I want in the library. And I am not a carpenter.
On the other hand, I dropped into one upscale furniture place on the way (it was next to another I was checking out, and I figured it would be entertaining, even if it would be more than I wanted to pay). And that was entertaining. The furniture ranged from nice to old-lady-fancy (the stuff that looks really pretty, but you can't use). And the salesmen? Well, the greeter greeted me. And everyone one of them sized me up and ignored me.
Which was highly amusing (I am in the income bracket they sell to, but I grant I didn't look like it - I was wearing jeans and a t-shirt, and carrying my purse jammed under my arm), and also effective. I hate trying to browse with salesmen dogging my every step - to the point that I have failed to buy from otherwise perfectly acceptable stores because they would not leave me alone.
This place could have had my business. If they'd had anything I wanted to buy. Maybe. The prices were a bit much - for the sort of stuff I'm looking for; for what they had, I suppose they were probably about right.
Meanwhile, dammit, someone give me a decent store out here?
Boredbored. Boredbored. Realized after I got home, I should have tried Home Depot and Lowe's just in case - that's not their specialty area at all, but it couldn't've been worse than the rest of today's searching.
On the other hand, neither is that far from work. So I'll check them out this week, I guess, if I stick to that.
Found a branch of one of the two art supplies companies I like, that's closer than I've been going to (on the way to work, albeit on a road that no one in anything resembling their right mind would get on at rush hour...). Unfortunately, the one that doesn't have a closer branch (though I could go further, to the downtown one) is the better store, but for a lot of simple stuff, this one's just fine.
I didn't stop in to see if this branch was as well-stocked as the other. I don't need anything right now, and I didn't want to pick stuff up on impulse or have to get back out of their driveway....
Anyway. So far? It's been a day.
Contemplated writing and decided that I wasn't that motivated. Read the rest of the D20 articles I didn't read yesterday, discovered I could largely have skipped them (as surmised). Oh, well.
Then I measured the library for shelves and went out to hunt. I wish we had (have? if we have, wish I knew about--) a decent place for modular furniture. Nothing I saw is, functionally, enough like what I want in the library. And I am not a carpenter.
On the other hand, I dropped into one upscale furniture place on the way (it was next to another I was checking out, and I figured it would be entertaining, even if it would be more than I wanted to pay). And that was entertaining. The furniture ranged from nice to old-lady-fancy (the stuff that looks really pretty, but you can't use). And the salesmen? Well, the greeter greeted me. And everyone one of them sized me up and ignored me.
Which was highly amusing (I am in the income bracket they sell to, but I grant I didn't look like it - I was wearing jeans and a t-shirt, and carrying my purse jammed under my arm), and also effective. I hate trying to browse with salesmen dogging my every step - to the point that I have failed to buy from otherwise perfectly acceptable stores because they would not leave me alone.
This place could have had my business. If they'd had anything I wanted to buy. Maybe. The prices were a bit much - for the sort of stuff I'm looking for; for what they had, I suppose they were probably about right.
Meanwhile, dammit, someone give me a decent store out here?
Boredbored. Boredbored. Realized after I got home, I should have tried Home Depot and Lowe's just in case - that's not their specialty area at all, but it couldn't've been worse than the rest of today's searching.
On the other hand, neither is that far from work. So I'll check them out this week, I guess, if I stick to that.
Found a branch of one of the two art supplies companies I like, that's closer than I've been going to (on the way to work, albeit on a road that no one in anything resembling their right mind would get on at rush hour...). Unfortunately, the one that doesn't have a closer branch (though I could go further, to the downtown one) is the better store, but for a lot of simple stuff, this one's just fine.
I didn't stop in to see if this branch was as well-stocked as the other. I don't need anything right now, and I didn't want to pick stuff up on impulse or have to get back out of their driveway....
Anyway. So far? It's been a day.