Stapler Repair

I forgot to say yesterday that I learned more about staplers than I ever wanted to know. Generally when Bonnie's on vacation I wind up gumming up a stapler at some point. Usually cause I didn't load the staples right or something. Anyway, this happened yesterday. With her old stapler it took a while of me jamming a pen tip in there and pushing on the top while pulling at the bottom of the staple. Her new stapler isn't working that way. I discovered that the metal plate can move a little so I thought this might give me the room I need to work something down in there to push out the three staples that were jammed up. So I got a screwdriver and pushed. Not the best of plans. A long spring unwound and some metal thingie flew up, the faceplate came loose and a tiny spring was laying there. I had broke Bonnie's stapler!!! Her brand new stapler! Fearing for my life I spent the next 20 minutes trying to fix it. I grabbed her old stapler and opened it and compared parts and figured out how to put it back together. It works now, but I damaged one of the springs and it will eventually snap. Hopefully not for a good long while so she doesn't think it's something I did. Also the faceplate will never be as secure as it once was, but it's on there and it works just fine. So I guess I can add stapler repair to the list of skills I acquired at work.

And I remembered something I didn't do. I forgot to set up the tracking sheets. You're supposed to reset them after the perishable departments take inventory. (which they take inventory once a month) Oops.

I played a little more Burnout Paradise yesterday, and I unlocked the special version of the car I really like, I don't remember. Opus or something, and the special is Lightening something. Anyway, I didn't get a chance to really test it out yet because I unlocked the police car and it's kinda sucky actually. I can't figure out how to turn the siren on and off. Best I can figure is it turns itself on after the first time you crash. And it takes corners really badly with the backend skidding around weirdly. I much prefer my little green stunt car. But I will take it's special out and test it to see if it's any good. It's minus one speed but plus one boost, compared to the other one. I need to figure out if that means my overall boost speed is faster or if I have longer boost. If it's longer boost I'll keep it! I hate running out of boost cause then I start drifting in the oncoming lane to try and get more and wind up crashing.

After I played that for a bit I switched to Sims 3. I was going to do Sim Societies but it's having issues. A long while back my computer was attacking files it thought had viruses in them and I wound up losing my html editor, paint shop pro, and I guess Sim Societies. I've already fixed the other two cause I've needed them, but for some reason it won't let me reinstall societies so Victor has to look into that. In the meanwhile I played Sims 3. I really like doing the styling job. I didn't know you could choose more than one outfit! I found some people were asking for Everyday Clothes (2) and didn't know what that meant. But then I saw the little plus icon and realized I can make more than one set of everyday clothes! I simply must style my own sim so I can get her more clothes. Actually playing with the sims instead of building houses reminds me one of the reasons I  had decided to teach myself how to crochet. It's boring to watch my sim sleep. So I unraveled the scarf I had been making for Victor. It was coming out really bad. I was doing four rows of red, four rows of green, etc, and I was running the off color up the side of the scarf. And the scarf itself was all womply, wide in places and skinny in others, and there was no real rectangle shape. It wasn't in any sort of pattern either to where I could say it's a style not a mistake. And I'd been thinking. That scarf and the arm warmers I made myself both came out horrible. The hat I made came out great (for a newbie project). The other two were using single strands and the hat used two. So I am making the scarf with both the red and green strands together. I haven't done a whole lot on it yet, but I'm excited to work on it some more later. I'm not following a patten. But it's a scarf. How hard is it to mess up a rectangle?