The New Ride

After weeks of research and a lot of hemming and hawing, we finally bought a stroller. We were going to get a cheap-y, like a Graco or Chicco, but I found that I just couldn’t do it. Buying anything with wheels taps into the part of my brain that also responds to Porsche, Ferrari, Audi, etc. I just could not see myself pushing my baby in a Yugo, so we went for the Mercedes of stroller, the Uppababy Vista. Bought it on eBay from a seller in Canada, saving us about $100. The stroller is awesome! It’s came with lot of kit: bassinet, foot muff, rain shield, bug shield. It folds compactly with a push of a single button. It’s got sharp styling. It’s not wildly overpriced like the Bugaboo, which is probably the Bugatti of strollers. If only Ducati made strollers.

Home Depot Blues

I painted Henry’s room a nice shade of blue, although getting the color right was also a bit of a trial. We came home from the Home Depot and decided that Caribbean Blue was just too light. So we went back to Home Depot to get the next shade darker that appeared on the color sample card, which should have been an easy thing to do. But the woman working behind the paint counter didn’t understand that one could adjust our paint by adding the difference in formulas between the target formula and the original formula. When I explained the concept to her, she kind of just stared at me. “Ok, but don’t get mad when you see it. I have no idea what it’s going to look like.” She wasn’t understanding. Come on, mixing paint is not rocket science. Creating paint color is a very precise thing, and the computer is doing all the measurement, so it should be easy, right? After I had worked out the pigment amounts for her, she stepped up to the computer and froze. I wanted to push her aside and do it myself. Eventually, she started entering the adjustment formula. I watched her make three mistakes, but at that point I was too flustered to be mean to her. I just watched as the pigments spurted out in their incorrect amounts.

Once home I was feeling somewhat defeated, but I decided not to get bent about the whole thing. So we have a color that is probably going to be impossible to reproduce, but really, this will never be necessary. The color turned out to be really close to what we were after, so all’s well that ends well.

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