Fuckin' desk chairs.

[azurelunatic]

My Costco desk chair, with the new-ish rollerblade wheels, has just at least partially died.

The main factor was the glass chair mat, and falling off of it. The process for getting back up put a lot of sideways stress on the parts of the bottom holding the wheels, and the plastic holding one of the wheels in failed the other day. Using a desk chair with four wheels is ... not great.

Belovedest helped reposition the glass chair mat, and I'm reasonably assured that I won't be falling off in the near future. So I decided to address the wheel-holding-in part with Sugru, yesterday.

This afternoon, it failed again, and that seems as though it has failed me for the last time. I don't want to engage with it any further. The arms have been ripped up substantially (I could fix this with the right kind of tape, not duct tape) and the cushion is ... Bad. (I could also address this by adding supplementary cushioning.) I am just ... disliking the chair more and more.

Right now I have pulled out my bouncy-ball and am working from that. It's too short for the desk, which cannot be adjusted. (Old extremely metal desk.)

My preference is to get rid of the fucking chair (the amount that I hate the seat is difficult to overstate), put the rollerblade wheels in the tall blue chair, and pull tall blue chair 2 (of 3) from the downstairs. I could be talked around to another position but it would take some convincing.


Unrelated, I am cranky that Apple is discontinuing the iPod. https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2022/05/the-music-lives-on/

Comments

[batrachian]

i wish to know more about "glass chair mat", as i am suddenly need of something to put under my desk chair again.

[azurelunatic]

Big sheet of tempered glass, sold as a chair mat, lovely flat rolling surface. Vulnerable to being accidentally set down on top of a random piece of debris that would potentially destroy it. Best used with slippers (cold)

[batrachian]

Oh huh. Useful, though the temperature may be a dealbreaker.

[azurelunatic]

If you keep your feet in one spot it warms up, but I have had to start wearing house slippers for unrelated (but also foot temperature) reasons so I haven't had too bad a time.

[pauamma]

If I'm reading this right and falling didn't cause you lasting harm, cautious yay?

[azurelunatic]

There has been a couple months of constant falling about a quarter-inch on one or two wheels of five, and then this week falling about three inches on one spoke of five. Never anything that involved my person hitting the floor.

[pauamma]

*nod*

Scene from your biopic?

[ng_moonmoth]

AZURELUNATIC motions CHAIR around to one side of their desk.

AZURELUNATIC: Chair, you have failed me for the last time!

AZURELUNATIC presses a red button on their desk phone. A trapdoor opens beneath CHAIR, which then drops several feet into a cage containing several angry gorillas.

AZURELUNATIC releases the red button, and the trapdoor closes. Gorilla screams and the sounds of splintering wood and tearing fabric prompt a cackle of glee.

Re: Scene from your biopic?

[azurelunatic]

That's about the size of it, except maybe a very large dragon waving a screwdriver.

Chairs, arggh!

[ravan]

I replaced my desk chair at the start of the pandemic. It was fine when I sat in it in the used equipment showroom, but apparently I have failed being able to adjust it low enough (it's at the bottom of its travel), and the seat tilts wrong so I'm always sliding out of it. It's wide enough for my butt, and can hold my weight easily, but fails in other ways.

I need to find one that fits better, but I hate chair shopping.

Re: Chairs, arggh!

[azurelunatic]

Chair shopping is the worst!

[ephemera]

desk chairs are the worst to try and shop for - hopefully your internal rotation brings you to a good result!

[azurelunatic]

I am pleased with the blue chair already! Belovedest brought it upstairs yesterday morning.

[xngurevar]

Because of incredibly good costco returns, you could probably turn it in for full refund. I just did this with a chest freezer I'd been using for almost a year.

[azurelunatic]

I think 2+ years, without the receipt, and with a chair that was the floor model on nearly half discount is probably fully disqualifying, but I like the way you think.

[azurelunatic]

I am enjoying the blue chair from downstairs. Rollerblade wheels are a project for Later.