Monday, May 29, 2006

Tents and the pitching of

Debating on chucking a sickee, more precisely using some comp time hours this morning. So far it's a pretty slow morning and my friend Mr. Caffeine has not blessed my cardiovascular system yet - although it's moving that way. I have some grunt work to do if I choose, need to move around some surplus computers and get them ready for donation/disposal and also clean up all the detritus in the computer room.

But with a 3 day weekend looming it's always tempting to pull out early.

Made a visit to REI for some tent seam sealer. We're going to go camping in the next couple weeks out at the coast and we haven't sealed the seams on our tent in the 4 years we've had it. And since we haven't actually pitched it in a while *giggle* and the fact that last time we camped on the coast we got soaked, it's time to seal 'em.

I'm amazed at how huge tents continue to grow *giggle again* - most of the tents on display at REI would allow us to put our tent inside, and ours is like 8'X9' and just fits in most campgrounds. I guess it goes hand-in-hand with SUVs and most other things American - bigger and bigger. Another thing that amazes me are the 'retro' ice chests that are metal covered. Before injection molded plastics took over they used to be the standard and pretty reasonable - or you just bought a styrofoam one and hoped it didn't crack and spill your Old Milwaukee all over the back of the Country Squire. But now a steel Coleman will cost over $100! Or just $24 for the same size in plastic. Wonder as oil prices rise if the price of plastic items will rise as well?

Ok, time to make with the work.

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