The Chambers

OK, so I recently cleaned out the sock draw. Unfortunately, the sad outcome of that meeting was the untimely demise of several black socks (may they rest in peace….) There was a few odd socks in the draw. I think some of them were a matched pair I was unable to match, some of their mates probably got lost in the mysterious depths of the washing machine or other such exotic places as the back ironing room where socks get sorted…

This got me to thinking. How do I save my socks from an untimely passing….

I’ve rolled out a couple of ideas and wanted to share them with someone. Not many would be interested & thats why I’m posting them here. Because no-one comes here.

I’ve bought bright coloured socks and rarely wear black socks now. It’s much easier to match up a nice bright red pair of socks, a striped blue pair and a brown pair with a green strip that it is to match three straight ordinary old black pairs.

Masterstroke!

Part B in the saving of socks is that I now have a “lingerie laundry bag”. Not for putting lingerie in! The socks go in, the whole bag goes in the washing machine, they whole group / set / collection / gaggle (whatever a group of socks is called) get washed together, they go into the drier together inside the lingerie bag and then get removed as a group / gaggle, immediately matched up with their mate and go back in the sock draw… ahhh – no more lost socks!

How’s that for an idea?

Problem solved…

How’s this for a nifty idea?

The Wineskin is a bottle shaped bubble wrap pack. They are built to be able to put a bottle of wine inside and then pack it into your checked luggage and have the bottle arrive safely & intact at your destination. If, heaven forbid, something does happen to the bottle and it breaks in transit the design is such that there are two seals which SHOULD keep the wine inside the sealed packet.

http://wineboxwarehouse.com.au/Accessories-Gifts/Wineskin

Great idea and at only $4.50 this is a great way to get a bottle or two or three home from wine hunting expeditions.

a few quick hits…

the other day I was messing around on the ‘puter and have found this site www.tripit.com. It’s pretty nifty, allowing you to send confirmation emails of travel arrangements to it and then it somehow sucks all the information out of the confirmation and places it in a neat itinerary! The itinerary can have maps, notes, lots of details and allows you to also reference sites like google maps, seat guru (for making sure you get the right seat on that long flight) and other nifty things like weather and the like. It’s v cool. Even cooler was that it has an ical feed, which lets you sync the content in your tripit itinerary with the calendar on the mac, BUT, even better is that that calender then syncs with the calender on my ipod! which means that our itinerary for our next US holiday need not be the massive document we had last time around! I’ll put a link to our itinerary in the blog soon.

our bet on the spurs and mavs got up! we’re on the improve – actually our balance has more than doubled since we started punting on doubles and if we’d been a bit more disciplined in the amounts we’d bet we could be going a lot better…. we’re still down on our starting position (JUST!) but we’re doing much better now that we’ve started punting on the doubles.

I’ve succumbed to another online trinket… twitter. silly name huh? it’s like an updater on what you are doing at any given point in time and for posting random thoughts. It’s in the right hand navigation, but I’ll probably get sick of it in a week or so and remove it in a couple of weeks. i need to try these things for my job though, huh?!

oh well – time to get ready for work. have a great day!

cc

Just last week, or the week before, we bought ourselves a new gadget. I’ve (chris) wanted a video camera / handycam for a while now. Our holiday to the states later in the year seemed like a great excuse to get one.

We ended up going through the fine folks at retravision, thanks John! we got ourselves a SONY sr300e handycam. This thing is great, it has a 6 megapixel stills camera, it’s small and light and so far I have found it easy to use. It records straight to a 40 gigabyte hard drive. We also ended up buying an external 80 gigabyte hard drive which we will take with us and transfer footage over from the handycam to the hard drive as we travel. I’m sure 120 gigabytes should be enough memory to cover all footage we take while we are away!