Almost finished! And good chair...

So my blog of Jan. 28, where I said I was going to knit up my Doctor Who scarf.  As of a tiny bit before 7 pm today, I have finished the knitting.  Now to weave in ends, and make tassels. Then I will have a fully-functioning scarf!  I am sort of looking forward to showing it to a friend of mine, who is an even more geekity Who follower than I am...

And the chairs of Feb. 5?  I must not have been the only one displeased with the things.  There was, like my plan, a chair from the conference area.  It worked, no leg cramps, and no upset deputies.  I think we have a winner!  (I feel like putting a sticker with Volunteer Use Only, or something on it, so we don't lose the silly thing!)

Not a great lot otherwise, this week to blog about, let's face it, knit across, slip one stitch, knit across, repeat until next color, repeat again, isn't screamingly fascinating to read about.  But once I get it complete, I will see if I can get a photo up.

The animals are enjoying a rare sun break here at the moment.  See if I can get some pictures of them, as well...

I have (sigh) 4 roosters now.  Mon Ami, and an almost white one I call Blanc.  Technically Noir et Blanc, but Blanc is quicker.  I have two more I want to name, one is really lovely, with red wings, and is loud and boisterous.  The other is more his shadow.  I will have to see what some of those sound like in French.  I suppose it is silly, but they are French birds, so I am sticking with french names.  Guess it gives me something to learn, as I know zip in the French department...  (I am also tempted to call the red winged one 2 a.m., because, I found out, he crows at that time!)  

Also, I have been trying to say hi on some of your blogs, but I am still not getting the phone to cooperate.😒   I will see about saying hello on the computer more often...

The story of the three chairs. And counting...

In the sub, I have a desk.  And that’s fine, I can do my work for one section of the office, take notes when I need to, I have a phone, and a computer, and several forms and information to use, and give out.

And… I have a running battle of late with… 

The chairs.

We had a pretty nice office chair, sort of a red colored seat, with black, and it was pretty cushy.  It has started showing its age, but I still like it.  However, I showed up about 3 or so weeks ago, and there was a new chair.  A black one, with a taller seat.  I thought I would just adjust it.  No dice, it was as low as it was going to get.  So, I sat.  

And realized, it also was tipped forward slightly.  Just enough that I felt like I was going to slide out, if I sat for any length of time.  I didn’t realize it, but I was compensating by leaning back, and holding myself “up” by my toes, sort of ‘on pointe’, if you will.  This did NOT work.  I ended up with cramps in my back and legs by the end of the day. 

So, the next week I used the red colored chair I’d mentioned before.  It was sitting in the back, I just rolled it up to the desk and sat.  SQUEEE-AAAAK!

Hm.  Well, no one is here, and I don’t care, so I will just use it.  And what a symphony of noise ensued!  Groaning, squeaking, grinding noises, some low pitched whines… And then 2 deputies came in to catch up on paperwork.  After about 15 minutes or so, there was a comment about the noise. 

My sin?  I would turn my head from the computer to the papers in front of me, and then click the computer mouse, and look up again.  This basically made a continuous Squee-click-Squank, about every minute or two.  After a comment about what was going to happen to the chair if it kept up, (nothing mentioned about the user, but I really thought I should do something), I quickly went back to the black chair.  And a mild case of leg cramps.

So, last week, I used a non-office-y, plain old chair with padding, that they have sitting out for back office visitors.  Sort of a gray-pink think, with gray metal legs.  

It worked… Except it grips like iron, so when someone would come to the desk, and I would need to come up and talk to them, I would have to do a rather heavy push against the desk to move the chair back.  Once, the desk, rather than the chair, moved. Not much, but enough to convince me I need to find a different chair.

Next week, the deputies will find one of the conference table chairs missing…