Seventh Disadvent

[psocoptera]

About once a year the fancy windowshade by J's desk breaks and we invoke the warranty and replace it. We had been keeping the old ones thinking they might be useful for spare parts somehow but given that this has now happened several times and they always break the same way and it's not a way we can fix, it felt like time to give up on all three broken shades. Eventually we will fall off the warranty and we'll have to decide if we want to actually pay to keep feeding fancy windowshades to the demon who only eats the left tendon of fancy windowshades (or whatever the root of the problem is) or if there might be a lower-cost or lower-waste solution, but that is not today's problem.