Morning Fog

Kitchen appliances, the basics at least, are a necessity for any household. A sufficient night’s sleep is a different necessity for those of us that have to rise in the early AM and make way our into the working world. A lack of either and the day may well start off on the wrong foot. MoreTronics.com can certainly help with the appliances part, and maybe to a lesser extent make you rest a little easier overnight knowing your kitchen is suitably equipped.

Seemingly everyone’s got a story where their morning grogginess has led them to take some incredibly absent-minded action. Adding juice to your cereal or coffee seems to be a well-renowned one. The possibilities are numerous - pouring pancake batter into a cold pan while the adjacent burner glows hot or thinking your newspaper is a misprint for a second or more before realizing you’ve opened it upside down. I remember watching my dad drop a plate into the toaster and push the lever down without even an inkling of anything amiss.

While there’s little to be done to assure your synapses are firing effectively when the motor’s just been turned over, consolidating your appliances in the kitchen may mean less of the turning to and fro that compounds your disorientation. To this end, consider a Kalorik Breakfast Set which merges your toaster and coffee maker into one unit and features a reusable filter so there’s one less piece of trash for you to witlessly drop into the recycling bin.

A Kalorik 4-Slice Toaster might be just the t

hing for the sleep-deprive

d man or woman who’s needing to make breakfast preparation for the entire family a little less demanding. Look at it this way, you’ll still have three slices to get it right and serve

the kids after you butter the first one with mayonnaise. A Black & Decker 2-Cup MiniPro Plus Food Processor is price

d right and ideal for those who like an omelet for breakfast. Be inadvertently ambitious and grate tofu in place of mozzarella, or a

ttempt to puree ham.

The morning fog can take some rather embarrassing turns as well. I have a bad habit of missing a belt loop or two on my khakis sometimes, but that’s nothing compared to the guy who’s not alone in the elevator before he realizes he’s without footwear or the woman who steps out with different earrings in each ear. Having your java ready for immediate consumption shortly after rising might mean a little more alertness when it comes time for final preparations. A suggestion – have a cup of joe ready and waiting for you and any others upon rising with a DeLonghi 10-Cup Programmable Coffee Maker. This top-quality machine features the ability to set your coffee maker to begin the brewing process any time before you crawl out of bed.

For many of us, no matter what time we hit the hay or how many hours of slumber we get, we’re still zombied come morning. There’s going to be times when you take your toothbrush to your scalp or step from the shower with a head full of shampoo. Knowing things will go a little more smoothly in the kitchen could be a welcome reassurance as your head struggles to come round, that is until the fork in your hand proves wholly ineffective for the consumption of cheerios.

Bored of your Boardroom? Spice it up with Office Furniture

Bored of boardroom meetings that seem to go on and on? The scene usually looks like this: The donuts and weak coffee dwindle slowly while the guest presenter repeats the same ideas as the last guy, only in about fifteen different ways. You can feel you neighbor’s breath on you because there is not enough room for everyone at the table and the presenter keeps fumbling to keep their papers from falling off the make-shift desk that’s been impractically placed in the far corner of the room. To top everything off, the projector buzzes too loudly for anyone to concentrate and the only thing that is truly keeping everyone from nodding off is their utter discomfort in the circa-1980’s office chairs. If any of this sounds familiar, your office boardroom definitely needs some sprucing up.

The best place to find good, quality boardroom tables and office chairs is at Cymax, where online shopping makes your furnishing job easy, so you can concentrate on the job that you are actually employed to do. At Cymax, you will also be able to find high quality projectors which will eliminate fuzzy pictures and the need for everyone to squint to see them. As well as projector mounts, so that you won’t have to rely on stacking the perfect amount of books underneath your old projector. Try treating your presenters with a lectern, complete with a large reading surface, a shelf, and caster wheels so that nobody has to shuffle around.

At Cymax, find a conference table that everyone will enjoy sitting at, perhaps one with a wide presentation top, a slab base and optional electronics modules. Choose from a large variety of top colors, base colors, edge colors – you can even feature three colors on one table. You can also have the option of where you would like the power and communication modules placed, so that there will not be any loose or disorderly cords hanging about the table.

Embellish your coworkers to office chairs that are comfortable, ones that nobody will complain about, no matter how long the meeting is. Adjustable ergonomic office chairs on caster wheels are perfect for boardrooms. Your staff may fall asleep, saddled in comfort, but at least they will not fidget around and get on everyone else’s nerves. If you have surprise guests or just not enough office chairs, stock up on stacking chairs that can be stored as easily as they can be brought out.

The weak coffee problem – and the side-effect of sleepy colleagues – can be rectified by a fashionable coffee maker a generous 1.5 liter capacity, pumping out enough coffee to keep the entire room buzzing with tons of constructive ideas and plenty of caffeine.

At Cymax, find lighting, hutches, storage cabinets, computer armoires, bookcases, and other office furniture to make your office as comfy as you can. You spend most of your days at work, after all, so make it as relaxing as possible for all employees and office guests. At Cymax, we also know how busy your days can be, so we make it easier for you to get what you need with online shopping that can be delivered right to your office. It’s just a day’s work for us.

Elvis Lives! (In the Suburbs)

On Saturday morning, I am woken up by Elvis and bagpipes. I lean over to see if my alarm clock is stuck between radio stations, soon realizing that I hadn’t set an alarm. It is Saturday. Saturday equals sleep for me.

Perplexed, I get out of bed and peek through my curtains. And there he is, in all his glory: Elvis – clad in a white bedazzled, studded shirt with the collar flipped up, and matching white bellbottom pants with a belt that you could see from space. Yes indeed, Elvis is alive and he is crooning, “You ain’t nothin’ but a hound dog” at my window.

The bagpipes are about twenty feet away from Elvis (not far enough). I am having flashbacks of my childhood: my mother drilling our Scottish heritage into my head by means of endless recordings of her favorite pipers and my father trying to instill in me what “real” music should sound like by playing LPs of Elvis, playing along with his guitar. I watch the pipers, and in my head, I go through the motions of Scottish country dancing – ugh. I turn my focus back to Elvis, and I swear one of my legs starts to wiggle, but it may just be pre-caffeine jitters.

I have never thought to imagine the King of Rock ‘n Roll and a band of twelve pipers go head-to-head for the spotlight on a suburban street in May. Nor what they are here for in the first place. I just moved to the suburbs after living in the city my entire life. In the city, Elvis might make an appearance, but only in the form of an over-confident, slightly inebriated fan, after closing time at the karaoke bar. But pipers? Not so much. I’m at a loss, so I walk into my den, where my community calendar is pinned up on a corkboard on the back panel of my workstation hutch. I flip through the calendar as I rub the sleep out of my eyes.

The May Day Parade! Upon realizing this, I am perhaps a little over zealous, but I have never really lived in a community before – the only parades I’ve gone to are more like protests than anything else. Wrapping my duvet cover around my shoulders, and with slippers on my feet, I visit the coffee maker for my essential caffeine kick (which did help my leg stop swaying) and then head for the deck.

One of the beauties of living in suburbia is that I have a rooftop deck – not a tiny Juliette balcony that looks out to a concrete alley between city blocks that I can only fit on if I lean up against the wall. No, this deck is huge and amazing and now that I can fit more than a body on my deck, I have completely spoiled both this deck and myself with stunning, quality patio furniture. But what feels like the greatest thing about this deck today is that it has a perfect view of the entire parade.

The parade lasts for a good hour and a half. Elvis and the piping band are followed by heaps of different community groups – from kids’ sports teams and school bands to War Veterans and vintage cars to Boy Scouts and Girl Guides. When all that is left is a few lonesome streamers and candy wrappers, I get up from my porch swing, head inside to my couch to catch up on the sleep that Elvis interrupted, with a smile on my face and an old song in my head.