In which Rolanni solicits advice and assistance
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rolanniAt 4:47 this evening, it was pitch dark on the outside of the house -- a circumstance made more dire by the fact that it was raining.
This had the not-exactly-unexpected-result of making me regret the demise of the reading lamp even more than I already did -- and, believe me, my sorrow on that front is non-trivial, mostly because I am sick to death of buying lamps that promise Forever and keep dying after a couple years. Dernit, I want a lamp I can have a Lasting Relationship with. A Forever Lamp.
So, advice: Where/How can I acquire a decent reading lamp? I can't spend a gazillion dollars, but considering the amount of money I've wasted on these consumptive brass things over the last five or six years, I'm perfectly willing to spend a bit of cash to get something that's gonna be able to keep up with me for years to come.
And! Assistance: Who is going to a convention or a book fair, or belongs to a reading group, has a relationship with a bookstore manager (or, yanno, is a bookstore manager) -- and can take some Carousel Tides postcards to put on the freebie table/in the goody bag/distribute? I have some left over from my various efforts and they might as well go to good homes.
If you can help, drop me a note at rolanniATkorvalDOTcom and I'll pop some in the mail to you.
In other news, I have created an Elegant Draped Effect for my back window, which remains shut all winter. Steve does not understand my drapey thing; especially he does not understand it on one window only. He wonders if I can't cut the existing one in half and drape both windows, in the service of symmetry.
Great Art is always misunderstood.
This had the not-exactly-unexpected-result of making me regret the demise of the reading lamp even more than I already did -- and, believe me, my sorrow on that front is non-trivial, mostly because I am sick to death of buying lamps that promise Forever and keep dying after a couple years. Dernit, I want a lamp I can have a Lasting Relationship with. A Forever Lamp.
So, advice: Where/How can I acquire a decent reading lamp? I can't spend a gazillion dollars, but considering the amount of money I've wasted on these consumptive brass things over the last five or six years, I'm perfectly willing to spend a bit of cash to get something that's gonna be able to keep up with me for years to come.
And! Assistance: Who is going to a convention or a book fair, or belongs to a reading group, has a relationship with a bookstore manager (or, yanno, is a bookstore manager) -- and can take some Carousel Tides postcards to put on the freebie table/in the goody bag/distribute? I have some left over from my various efforts and they might as well go to good homes.
If you can help, drop me a note at rolanniATkorvalDOTcom and I'll pop some in the mail to you.
In other news, I have created an Elegant Draped Effect for my back window, which remains shut all winter. Steve does not understand my drapey thing; especially he does not understand it on one window only. He wonders if I can't cut the existing one in half and drape both windows, in the service of symmetry.
Great Art is always misunderstood.
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Date: 2010-11-10 11:14 am (UTC)In our Santa Cruz house (before we moved to Silly Valley) we had two uuuugly boxed fluorescent lighting. Two of the tubes failed, and I went to the hardware store to get replacements. I found some "daylight" tubes, and bought two. I took them home, a tall friend installed them, and I turned around, went back to the store, and bought two more and some new plastic diffuser sheets to go under them. The difference made such a difference in that dimmish corridor we called the kitchen. I do deal with SAD, and I hate being in dimly-lit rooms. Dim outside is completely different!