Coffee Break: Snag Nab It Tool

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1. Where should we eat in Sonoma? All adults, all price points, no restrictions. Hit me!

   1. What part? Sonoma proper or West Sonoma county?
      On the square in Sonoma proper, Girl and the Fig is classic and good (get the quiche), I also love El Dorado Kitchen.

      1. +1 for Girl and the Fig, but I thought El Dorado was so disappointing.

   2. Grata in Windsor.

2. My employer was bought out and one of the many things the new company just sent out is a thing where when I read the whole thing, I have 45 days to opt out of being required to use arbitration if I want to sue them (and which says class action lawsuits therefore can’t happen?). I have no expectation of needing or wanting to sue my employer but am contrary and this makes me want to opt out on principal. Does it matter? Should I bother? (It is a huge Fortune 100 company)

   1. I would absolutely opt out of mandatory employment arbitration.

      1. 100%.

      2. +2!

   2. Yes! Opt out. No benefit to you to remain in.

3. You can do this with any needle that has a large enough eye for the snag. Insert the needle halfway through the fabric, next to the snag, so the eye is on the side with the snag. Thread the snag through the needle. Pull the needle the rest of the way through the fabric.

4. I had a bad case of Perioral dermatitis from a very stressful semester in college.

   The root cause was EOS lip balm exasperated by licking/biting my lips. Switching to a different lip balm helped a lot plus finding a different outlet for self soothing.

   My mom (an ICU nurse) had me hold a washcloth soaked with listerine to the area for about 30 seconds twice a day for the first couple of days to dry it up and then use a tiny bit of Vaseline only on my lips when they felt dry. About 2 weeks later, it was gone. Very annoying and I felt so self conscious looking like the joker over Christmas break. I still have to be mindful not to do weird stuff with my lips/mouth when I’m really stressed.

   1. I got it after using vitamin C serum, which I had actually used before with no ill effects.

   2. Interesting! I think mine was started by stress, and possibly a skincare product that I’d been using for about a month. I’m not sure. What I do know is that it’s pretty miserable to look bad AND feel like my face is constantly itching.

5. It’s a nifty gadget, but you don’t need one. Like the above poster said, you can do snag repair with a needle.
   As an aside, it would be fun to read some articles on garment maintenence and repair now and again. Not just about the gadgets, the actual how-to.

   1. There are subreddits for visible and invisible mending, lots of communities out there. I mend all my clothes, it makes me proud to be able to save my garment.

      1. I do a lot of mending – a kid who always has holes in the bottoms of his leggings, my own jumpers etc. I use embroidery thread for stuff I don’t mind being visible.

      2. I’ve been mending my clothes for decades.
         I don’t know what you mean by ‘subreddits’, I just meant that it would be interesting to read about an aspect of fashion -on a fashion blog of all places- that can save money and benefit the environment by extending the life of a garment

   2. Yes – basic clothing maintenance tips would be appreciated.

6. does anyone have any great science fiction books to recommend? husband loves the expanse. i can’t get him to read muderbot though.

   1. The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler

      Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind by Molly McGhee

      The latter doesn’t seem as Sci-Fi now, but much more horror, with a tech start-up reportedly trying to leverage lucid dreaming for employees to do more work — https://thehustle.co/a-real-nightmare–tech-that-lets-you-work-in-your-sleep/?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&amp

   2. Why won’t he read Murderbot? (Did you see Apple TV is making a series?)

      The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi was a fun recent read. Under Fortunate Stars may or may not be his jam.

   3. The Light Pirate.

   4. The Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson is amazing.

      1. Kim Stanley Robinson also has some more recent speculative fiction about earth adapting to the sea level rises in the relatively near future. The Ministry of the Future, 2312 and 2140. Maybe not everyone’s cup of tea, but I really enjoyed them because they are somehow both realistic about the climate and optimistic about human resilience and adaptation.

         1. I loved Ministry for the Future, too!

   5. What kind of sci-fi does he like? Does he like just sci-fi, or does he also like sci-fi/fantasy?

   6. The Martian and Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir.

      1. + 1 million. I don’t even like sci fi but these were both so amazing.

      2. Came here to recommend Project Hail Mary

         1. Also Metro 2033 – dystopian future kinda thing. The basis of a video game but really good.

            And the Dune series.

      3. Agree with these recs!

   7. Blake Crouch’s books.

   8. My husband recommends the dungeon crawler Carl series.

   9. Blindsight and The Sparrow were two that both my husband and I read and liked (Murderbot books were also just for me)

      1. Both of these are good but can be nightmare fuel. Not chill reads.

         1. True. I am actually not sure how that compares to the Expanse!

   10. The Automation by Ian Young

       1. This looks fun but (and?) also a little like it was plotted by Bing chat.

   11. Lois McMaster Bujold has a Vorkosigan series, which is excellent. Cordelia’s Honor is usually a good entry point, but it’s more like a prequel, the bulk of the series focuses on the next generation.

       Also Pierce Brown’s Red Rising series, although again, most of the series takes place in space, but the first book is basically on a single planet.

   12. Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky

       Also a +1 to Ministry of the Future and the Andy Weir books.

       1. I was surprised how much I liked Children of Time.

   13. The Broken Earth series by N.K. Jeminsin is amazing, and the author is a black women (which is very rare for sci-fi)

   14. Ancillary justice and the rest of the Imperial Radch trilogy by Ann Leckie. And her most recent book Translation State.

       Elizabeth Bear have a few SF series that are excellent. I wouldn’t recommend her latest, but the Jacobs Ladder and Jenny Casey series are great.

       I like John Scalzi as a thinker, but not as a writer. The Kaiju preservation society is very much a fan-service vehicle, and neither funny or particularly inventive. Pretty bad worldbuilding and the characters very two-dimensional

7. I’m considering wrapping my gifts for family in some various scarves i’ve thrifted over the years, and i bought some of those furoshiki cloths that nyt recommends. but how do you “close” the packages? for some reason i’m thinking hairties?

   1. You tie the corners in a knot.

   2. Tie knots or fold it back into itself. I think hairties would take away from the overall look the fancy cloths are supposed to have…

   3. I did it once for a bridal shower present for one of my good friends and it was a huge hit. I was able to tie two opposite corners, and then tie the other two opposite corners.

      Here’s a how to:
      https://stylebyemilyhenderson.com/blog/the-best-guilt-free-2022-holiday-trend-that-has-been-around-3000-years

   4. I think you just tie the scarf. If you do an online search you can find a ton of how to videos.

   5. My dad does a version of this but uses stretchy elastic cord or bungee cords if the present is large enough. Bungee cords aren’t the most aesthetic option, but it works and then you have a bungee cord too—dad logic.

      I can see a fun scarf wrapped with a contrasting color elastic looking cool…or a scrunchie could be a fun add-on.

      1. Haha, I love your dad’s approach!

         I’ve used washi tape before which worked decently well.

   6. Can you tell me more about this – seems like it just leaves the gift receiver with a random scarf or single cloth that they have no use for. How is that better than just using newspaper or gift wrap and recycling it?

      1. +1

      2. it would work great for, say, the gifts you open at your own house. Then you just fold the cloths up and store them for next year.

         we enjoy ripping the paper too much for slipping a cloth off the gift to feel satisfying, though!

      3. that’s why i’m only giving them to family members – i’m assuming we’ll open all the gifts in my living room or my mother’s, and instead of trashing the scarves they’ll either want to keep them or just hand them back to me.

         but if they do keep it then the next time they give ME a gift they could use the scarf or similar…

      4. The point is to re-use it multiple times as a wrapping when the gift receiver gives a gift to someone else (or back to the original gifter), or to carry items, like a bunch of oranges or a bento box for lunch. Furoshiki arose in a context of scarcity, and are intended to be used and reused as gift wrapping (and not as a random scarf or single cloth).

   7. Square knot or yarn in a color that complements

8. What ‘cozy’ things do you all read when scrolling on your phone? For me, it’s Corporette and r/AskWomenOver30. Both feel like diving into a Seventeen magazine or issue of Vogue when I was younger. Does anyone else have any similar recommendations?

   1. I like finding things of interest on pinterest.

   2. Carolyn Hax, Ask Amy, Miss Manners.

9. Is there some way on TheRealReal to see information about fabric care (dry clean or machine wash)? Also, I just bough something that looked kind of black and grey and white tweedy, and it was, but it also had silver shimmery threads that did not show online and made it very nice for parties but useless for work. Is there any fix for that?

   1. I don’t think so, you just get fabric content. What kind of garment are we talking about with metallic threads? You can totally wear a tweed with metallic threads to work.

      1. +1 I have a tweed jacket with metallic threads and it is just fine at my business leaning formal and definitely not casual office.

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