The Dino-Aspie Ex-Café (for Those 40+... or feeling creaky)

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Good luck with your job Merle. As for my job, I was recently transferred from a production
line to the machine room where I am being trained as a die setter and machinist's helper.
This job has more responsibilities than being a production line wiper but there is not as much
aggravation and insanity. As for tactile issues I now deal with grease instead of sticky sealer.
Grease is easier for me to deal with than silicone goop.

you know, were were supposed to be in the middle of our latest vacation as of today. it's friday... we were to be at the british museum and then tomorrow were to take a train to scotland. thenwards on to northern ireland, then down to dublin and surrounds.

they've very recently had floods, late snowstorms, rail strikes, a wonking car bomb, and now- arguably - fire from heaven.
guess it's a good thing, in a way, that i got sick and we had to cancel, or i'd be just in time for the plagues of locusts or the boils and sores....

two aspies, one who doesn't travel all that well and who melts down when really tired, stuck in foreign airports for days on end.
now that's a nightmare.

Good wishes to Merle and Richie for welcome new developments at work. Even the most change-averse among us can get a lot of benefit from the occasional paradigm shift. Agree with Nan, though, that being stuck in foreign airports is taking it too far.

Hey, anybody know anything about buying carpeting? I have to re-carpet my bedroom so I can use it regularly again (no way to get all the bird dander out after 10 years of having birds in on the old carpet). The amount/variety of carpeting to choose from is just daunting.

I've been to Home Depot (and various places) and am leaning towards a brand called Puresque, by Beaulieu Mills. There's a top of the line one that's like totally cleanable - you can even put a strong bleach solution on it and it will come clean of almost any stain including indelible magic marker! - but it's a little too pricey for this family. Ethically it appeals because it's like uber-recycled and very "green", but again, it's just too expensive for either us or this condo. It has an absolutely lovely "skin contact" feel. But we are not exactly the posh set here and a really impressive carpet in here would be kinda like putting a crystal chandelier in a mobile home. Still, it has like a 20 year warranty, which also appeals. But I can't imagine living here for 20 more years. But we might, so....

The other one I'm looking at is a nice neutral plush, 4200 density with a face weight of 56 ounces. That's actually a slightly better construction, but does not have the "solution dyed" feature that the posh stuff has, so it would be a little more prone to fading out. It's a nylon product, with a supposed odor-eliminating treatment inherent in it. (That's a real plus, when one has cats.) It's got their "Permasoft" treatment on it, which makes it feel a bit like wool. They let us bring home samples and it is actually nice feeling - the cats like it very much and it has a good "skin contact" feel to both of us. It costs a decent amount less than the expensive stuff.

One special plus to this lower cost one is that we may eventually have to re-carpet the rest of the house - actually, it REALLY needs it, but I'm saving up so we pay as we go. I'd rather have a Pergo type thing out in the LR/Den/Kitchen/hallway, but the floor isn't terribly level and I'm not sure that's doable (we're on the second floor) due to all the earthquakes and building settling. We might just end up putting the carpet out front, with maybe a new lineoleum in the kitchen, eventually. But if we did go with carpet, it would cost us much less to do the front of the house with this than the really impressive stuff and it would all match.

HD will rip out and remove the old carpet and pad for no fee, and is charging only $37 labor to install the carpet for the room (a special promotion). Anybody got a clue if I'm making a good choice here? My hunch is that it would serve us well, as this is for a low-traffic bedroom, and I tend to keep smaller throw rugs over places where there's a lot of foot contact - at the doorway, by the bathroom door, in front of my over-stuffed reading chair, etc.

So many variables to choose from ! !! !

Hey, Merle, you'll only be about 300 miles away! That's "right next door" in Aspie terms...

Sorry I've been uncommunicative lately - looks like the houseguests (who are still here, because H is so much more forgiving than I am) will be here until June, and I haven't been able to retreat to my room as much as I'd like (my bedroom is downstairs, next to the area they're staying in, and apparently they sometimes feel I'm being "intrusive", like I'm going to listen in to their conversations or something). Mostly I've responded by playing a lot of Rock Band and Mass Effect 2 on the ol' XBox 360. On the plus side, Autistic Rage just picked up enough fame stars in New York to hire a Merchandise Girl, which increases their income on every gig played - and meanwhile, Commander Shepard (who bears an uncanny resemblance to Vin Diesel, this time around) has just acquired the services of the drell assassin Thane Krios, and is about to convince the asari Justicar, Samara, to join his merry band of Collector-killers...

G'day auntblabby and belated happy birthday chippie (only 49? youngster )

Congrats Merle on being the one in 5.75.

Seems I was only gone for a day or so and there's pages here!

Congratulations to Sinsboldly and Richie on new jobs.