Salon post: May 4

[jenett]

Welcome to this week's salon post! How is it Friday again?

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Topic of the week
Last week's discussion of what do you have in your bag was great! For this week, I'm curious about what tools/objects/nifty stuff you have that makes your life infinitely better. (Headphones and charging cords came up last time, but I'm sure there are kitchen tools, bedroom things, and all sorts of other stuff.)

What I've been up to:
I finished one writing project, have a bunch of things to sort out in May, whee, many of which are good. I also had my first allergy shot on Wednesday, so I've been taking it a little easy this week.


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Comments

[rosefox]

We had an electric water boiler gadget, the sort that sits on the counter and keeps water hot until you need it. It broke, and I mostly stopped drinking tea so we didn't replace it. But gosh, it was so useful to have pre-boiled water when I was starving and wanted immediate pasta!

[keshwyn]

I have an electric kettle on the kitchen counter at home that is ye olde basic "boil water" kettle, because I am of British descent, and TEA DAMMIT. But at work, I have a rather better kettle where I can tell it "keep warm at X temperature" and it'll do that for an hour. So I boil the water, make tea in the kettle (it's glass, has a mesh basket inside) and have enough tea for the day -
about 1.5 L. And then at the end of the week, I scrub the kettle down.