New Old Chair Causes Side Effects

Saturday, March 11th, 2006 | Life

So I decided that my “computer chair” was dead. 2 of the springs from underneath have busted out (obviously due to my magnanimous brain weighting down the chair). Also the fabric was tearing and well… For a recliner, it really wasn’t all that comfortable to begin with.

The only reason I ever got this chair in the first place (besides being free) was because my old recliner had been sat on by too many girls and the left side had broken loose, causing not only lopsidedness but overall chair instability.

Upon deciding my current chair was deceased I first tried to convince my roommate to buy a new chair and give me his old one. He actually wants to get a new chair now, but the problem is (and will always be) that he is insanely lazy and will end up putting it off for a couple years anyways.

Not willing to wait a couple years I went into my basement and looked at my old comfortable chair and it’s lopsided arm. I then decided to fix it, since the idea of fixing the comfortable chair instead of the uncomfortable chair seemed a good one.

I flipped the chair over and started looking for weak areas. I discovered that not only was it not connecting to any of the staples at all on that side, BUT the other side also had a bracket with a bar that connected from the arm over to the base of the chair, and the left side did not.

I don’t think there ever actually was a bracket on the left side, which is why it could not handle the weight of a few girls sitting on the arm and caved under pressure.

So, not being able to make a new bracket and bar equivalent and knowing the staples would never go back in I decided to find some big ass nails and use them to connect the once stapled pieces together.

After a few bitch nails that wanted to bend on me, I had succeeded in fixing the chair. Now all I had to do was clean the cobwebs off and I could swap out my chair. WooHoo

So I get it upstairs and haul the broken chair downstairs much to Paul’s protest (but what can i do with it… nobody will take it if I stick take me sign on it, not in our neighborhood). Clean the area where the old chair was and set it up, confident in my abilities.

However… there was a catch. One that I don’t recall having with the chair before… It seems my optical mouse does not track well on this chair. In fact it was bad enough that I had to go get a mousepad (that I made myself btw) and place it on the arm of the chair.

Now the mouse tracks really, really well on the pad. However… and this is a big however…. It tracks so well that when the chair is tilted slightly (like it always will be since the footrest will always be out) it slides right off the mousepad.

Ah, as I am typing this I remember the solution I had when I used this chair in the past. I had some stacked up cases of soda to the right of the chair with a mousepad on them. This however is not really something I want to do, so….

What it actually means is that now, seeing as how I am building myself a new computer, I shall now need to buy a new wireless laser mouse. Yes that’s right, optical was a million times better than the ball mouse’s, but laser is at least 100 times better than optical. So I assume it will be able to track on the arm of the chair, and I will not need to rig up a stand next to the chair.

All in all, I am very happy with my new old chair. Most people sit at their computers in a very uncomfortable computer chair, and sit straight up and type on a keyboard that is on some sort of slide-out drawer and they try to convince themselves they are comfortable. I however transcended long ago to the realization that you don’t need to be uncomfortable to use a computer.

We’ll tag this with “the smartass recommends” replacing your computer chair with a recliner and then getting a wireless keyboard / mouse and an external speaker volume control that you can stick in the side of the chair for instant volume control access.

               

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