Our first camping experience showed that sleeping on foam pads isn’t the most comfortable thing, so our little camper kit has now been joined by these inflatable sleeping pads.

A box of six such packages arrived recently.

And who just received this adorable little Chinese screwdriver set? That would be me

The case is magnetic and holds every bit in place. It’s also a metal-and-plastic combo — a metal sleeve slides over the plastic tray. Finally I have a Torx with a …

This is what the insides of a six-year-old laptop look like

“Come and get it, prices slashed!” — that’s basically what an email from Amazon was screaming at me about a grand sale on all sorts of stuff from WD and SanDisk.

The first time I changed strings with my own hands. The first string (as always) snapped, but at the time the guitar was hanging on the wall and we weren’t even home. I suspect the cat may have helped, though there’s no evidence.

Another necropost dug out of drafts. In principle, everything is still fairly accurate and relevant, except that “recently” (became the owner) — it’s not even clear when…. Couldn’t find the purchase data, which is rather …

I thought it over and decided not to wait for Black Friday, nor for the storage to run out ahead of schedule. In the spirit of increasing diversity inside my NAS, a green Seagate joined the two existing red WD drives.

Red is for love, and black is for sorrow….

Today at the store I saw a whole variety of hand sanitizers — looks like the panic is over, and some production capacity has been created or retooled.