(My new boss has discovered I can word good. Now I'm apparently writing emails for the intern as well as website copy. I think I've performed poorly if it's taken him this long to work it out--but when he handed me the web pages on Wednesday and explained his goals and asked for a review, apparently everyone fell in love with it. Come on! I have an "excellent presentation" award from the CIO pinned up in my cubicle. It's my not-so-stealth differentiator.)
(My previous manager thought I was pretty incompetent when it came to communication...)
Right! Grab the fruit salad for late lunch and back to the presentation.
I found the last Cost Market Plus Whatever Adirondack chair in the Los Angeles area, and *purchased* it to find out it can't fit in my car assembled
I had that problem with a coffee table (and my parents' car). It was so sad! But I'm really happy with the one I have, and that one really would have been too big for the space. I hope your chair situation works out as well!
Anyone have suggestions on how to get a drawer unstuck? It's a wooden drawer in a wooden cabinet. It doesn't have runners or anything -- just the plain rectangular drawer stuck in a slot. And it's stuck. I'm not sure if it's that the heat expanded the wood, or what, but I can't watch a DVD or play Wii without the remote that's in the drawer. It's a nice cabinet, so I don't want to ruin the wood in the process of unsticking the drawer.
Anything that will cool it down will help, but it's usually heat. My desk drawers wouldn't open until we had the desk in A/C for a few days, after getting it out of storage.
It may be quicker and cheaper to get a replacement remote in the meantime!
Humidity more than heat, I bet. But I have no ideas of what to do except wait for fall!
Hilariously, Apartment Therapy suggests (a) a dehumidifier, (b) a heat lamp, (c) moving to Phoenix. [link] But that makes me think a hair dryer might help.
It's really annoying -- my cable remote was programmed to work with my TV, and it can do everything except switch input. The cable guy tried it with a few different codes, and the TV just wouldn't recognize the switch input button with any of them. So I use the cable remote most of the time, but have to keep the TV remote around just for when I'm switching between TV and DVD and Wii.
OK, so the solution is either heat or cold.
Hil, you need to dry out the drawer. If you can get to the underside, aim a hairdryer at it or put an incandescent light under it for a few hours. Try whacking the sides sharply after protecting them with something like cardboard. If those don't work, see if you can get some lubricant in the sides. The best is a graphite lubricant, but even WD-40 might work. After you've gotten it out, rub wax on the runners to keep it from happening again.
