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I got two things by mail order recently: my handmade boots from Catskill Moccasins, and a power conditioner for my computer.
A little while ago, I sat down with the "care and feeding of your new boots" page open, including the diagrams of how to lace the boots. I followed the instructions, got to the top of the boot, and had about a meter of lace left, and a diagram that seemed to suggest just tucking it underneath. So, instead of putting on my new boots (which are tight at the moment, or at least the right one is, but the company says they stretch a little after a couple of days' wearing) and starting to break them in, I have emailed the company to ask "How am I supposed to tie this?" I'm guessing there's supposed to be a bow of some kind, but the details are not clear. If I don't have an answer to my email in a couple of days, I may experiment again.
The power conditioner (aka uninterruptible power supply), reasonably, requires a three-pronged outlet. This is an old building, so we needed a two- to three-prong adapter, which I didn't realize until after the power conditioner arrived. Last week, in the second store he tried,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
cattitude got two (2) such adapters. This afternoon, he tried to install it, only to find that the tab faces the wrong way. Both adapters in the package are the same shape. So, we need to shop again, for one that either faces the other way, or has a wire instead of a tab. (We will each be tucking one of the wrong-way ones in our daypacks, for comparison while shopping.)
I am a bit grumpy about this. If we hadn't had a really nice walk in the park, I would be really grumpy. As it is, I'm thinking in terms of melon or berries, tea, and maybe Scrabble. (Neither of these is an immediate problem: I do have shoes, and while I bought this hardware after the power glitched once, that's once in the year and a half I've had this computer).
ETA: I have now rubbed neatsfoot oil into the boots, with only a little difficulty withjulian_tiger. (He sat and watched but basically behaved once I tucked the laces under my leg.) I washed the floor when I was done, because of course the oil soaked through a couple of layers of newspaper. More newspaper next time? I would guess that almost everyone who does this is doing it either outdoors or in a barn or mudroom, not a city apartment; whether I do the same when it's time to rub in mink oil for winter will depend on weather/how long I put this off. I used an old T-shirt for the purpose. Given that I will be needing to do this a couple of times a year, and Cattitude has a similar pair of boots on order, maybe I won't clean out the T-shirt drawer, or at most limit it to the tattered ones, not those I'm merely bored with.
A little while ago, I sat down with the "care and feeding of your new boots" page open, including the diagrams of how to lace the boots. I followed the instructions, got to the top of the boot, and had about a meter of lace left, and a diagram that seemed to suggest just tucking it underneath. So, instead of putting on my new boots (which are tight at the moment, or at least the right one is, but the company says they stretch a little after a couple of days' wearing) and starting to break them in, I have emailed the company to ask "How am I supposed to tie this?" I'm guessing there's supposed to be a bow of some kind, but the details are not clear. If I don't have an answer to my email in a couple of days, I may experiment again.
The power conditioner (aka uninterruptible power supply), reasonably, requires a three-pronged outlet. This is an old building, so we needed a two- to three-prong adapter, which I didn't realize until after the power conditioner arrived. Last week, in the second store he tried,
cattitude got two (2) such adapters. This afternoon, he tried to install it, only to find that the tab faces the wrong way. Both adapters in the package are the same shape. So, we need to shop again, for one that either faces the other way, or has a wire instead of a tab. (We will each be tucking one of the wrong-way ones in our daypacks, for comparison while shopping.)I am a bit grumpy about this. If we hadn't had a really nice walk in the park, I would be really grumpy. As it is, I'm thinking in terms of melon or berries, tea, and maybe Scrabble. (Neither of these is an immediate problem: I do have shoes, and while I bought this hardware after the power glitched once, that's once in the year and a half I've had this computer).
ETA: I have now rubbed neatsfoot oil into the boots, with only a little difficulty with
julian_tiger. (He sat and watched but basically behaved once I tucked the laces under my leg.) I washed the floor when I was done, because of course the oil soaked through a couple of layers of newspaper. More newspaper next time? I would guess that almost everyone who does this is doing it either outdoors or in a barn or mudroom, not a city apartment; whether I do the same when it's time to rub in mink oil for winter will depend on weather/how long I put this off. I used an old T-shirt for the purpose. Given that I will be needing to do this a couple of times a year, and Cattitude has a similar pair of boots on order, maybe I won't clean out the T-shirt drawer, or at most limit it to the tattered ones, not those I'm merely bored with.![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
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