Iceblossom

After far too long yesterday I cleaned out the wheels on my computer chair. My son's company is downsizing (fortunately his job is safe for now) and was giving away nice, relatively new chairs so he picked up a couple for me. It was funny because just that day I decided that I had to do better than what I had in my sewing room. It's been ok, never a great chair, it was my old computer chair and replaced the regular non-rolling chair I had in the sewing room. The biggest problem is that the piston seat height adjuster had died, when I'm not sitting in it, it magically and gradually raises up but then when I sit down, whoosh! I drop about 6 inches and it was just too darn low especially since my work table is not a sewing table so my machine is up a bit high anyway.

I decided the best course of action was to put the new chair at my computer and use the chair there in the sewing room, as I pulled it out it was dragging badly. Turns out only 2 out of the 5 wheels were turning well. Hadn't really noticed too much since all I do is pull out and back in. So I figured I should clean out the roller balls while I had the space.

Good googly moogly! I considered taking a picture but decided it was too gross to share, let's just say I had enough lint/strings/hair/dog fur in there to stuff a small teddy bear. And once again the hubby had to be subjected to another lecture on making sure his used dental floss actually makes it into the trash can...

I hereby resolve to clean out those things more often. I have said that in the past but this time I mean it!