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New Key Chain
May. 29th, 2012 07:46 pmI just got a new key chain. It is awesome.
In the olden days (age sixteen, certainly) I judged a key chain by the decorative thingy on it. Later I learned that it also matters how easy to grab the decorative thingy was. Still later, I decided you could just have a mini mag light instead of a decorative thingy--it's useful, easy to grab, and available in decorative colors.
Then I discovered a key chain that was easily separated into two parts. You could keep your car keys on one for car repairs, car inspections, oil changes, or valet parking and leave everything else on the other one.
Then I noticed indigo rose had a key chain with three separate chains you could easily slide off. (She got me my very own one for Christmas. Yea!) Three chains means you could have one for car keys and another for other stuff you don't need (or can't bring) while traveling, such as a pocket knife and work keys. Or you could have one for stuff you need only when traveling, like keys to your parents' house.
Sadly my new key ring was not designed quite as well as the one available when indigo rose got hers (with the different parts falling off when I didn't want them to), and when it also broke, I went looking for something better.
And that's what I found this weekend. It has six parts to it, though you can only fit one or two keys comfortably on each part (three can fit, but then they don't slide well). They attach and detach to the mother ring with a carabiner design.
My favorite thing about it is that instead of a split ring design for the part where you add and remove the keys, you also get a carabiner design for that. It's an S-shape, so the opening to attach a key is different from the one for connecting it to the key chain. That helps make the clumsiness less factor less important--whichever thing I'm trying to do is the one I will actually accomplish.
The carabiner design is especially handy for me now that I have temp jobs [for one of them, I'm switching to my third office next week for a total of six keys to add (and two to remove) over the past three months]. My fingernails do allow me to work a split ring, but I don't enjoy it.
Another nice thing about my new key chain is that each S-carabiner is a different color, which can help you find the right key quickly. The only bad part is that some of the colors are ugly. (But then if you don't need all six, you can remove the uglier colors.)
Curious? What I got is the Nite Ize KeyRack. It's available at the Container Store (also for $5). Although my colors look more like maroon, black, purple, retro green, orange, and grey than the colors I see in the picture (red, black, dark blue, pea green, orange, and light blue).
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I'm now fantasizing about carabiners for shower curtain rings. They seem like such a good design for easily detaching things when you want to and not easily detaching them when you don't. If they are the right size, they might even slide properly. If they are the right materials (aren't they usually aluminum?), they might not even rust.
Cake of the Day
Today's cake is not from the cake show. It's from Disapproving Rabbits (thanks for the link, Robert). Because if you look at a real rabbit, it is much more likely to look disapproving than cheerful and eager to please, as they are usually depicted.
In the olden days (age sixteen, certainly) I judged a key chain by the decorative thingy on it. Later I learned that it also matters how easy to grab the decorative thingy was. Still later, I decided you could just have a mini mag light instead of a decorative thingy--it's useful, easy to grab, and available in decorative colors.
Then I discovered a key chain that was easily separated into two parts. You could keep your car keys on one for car repairs, car inspections, oil changes, or valet parking and leave everything else on the other one.
Then I noticed indigo rose had a key chain with three separate chains you could easily slide off. (She got me my very own one for Christmas. Yea!) Three chains means you could have one for car keys and another for other stuff you don't need (or can't bring) while traveling, such as a pocket knife and work keys. Or you could have one for stuff you need only when traveling, like keys to your parents' house.
Sadly my new key ring was not designed quite as well as the one available when indigo rose got hers (with the different parts falling off when I didn't want them to), and when it also broke, I went looking for something better.
And that's what I found this weekend. It has six parts to it, though you can only fit one or two keys comfortably on each part (three can fit, but then they don't slide well). They attach and detach to the mother ring with a carabiner design.
My favorite thing about it is that instead of a split ring design for the part where you add and remove the keys, you also get a carabiner design for that. It's an S-shape, so the opening to attach a key is different from the one for connecting it to the key chain. That helps make the clumsiness less factor less important--whichever thing I'm trying to do is the one I will actually accomplish.
The carabiner design is especially handy for me now that I have temp jobs [for one of them, I'm switching to my third office next week for a total of six keys to add (and two to remove) over the past three months]. My fingernails do allow me to work a split ring, but I don't enjoy it.
Another nice thing about my new key chain is that each S-carabiner is a different color, which can help you find the right key quickly. The only bad part is that some of the colors are ugly. (But then if you don't need all six, you can remove the uglier colors.)
Curious? What I got is the Nite Ize KeyRack. It's available at the Container Store (also for $5). Although my colors look more like maroon, black, purple, retro green, orange, and grey than the colors I see in the picture (red, black, dark blue, pea green, orange, and light blue).
**
I'm now fantasizing about carabiners for shower curtain rings. They seem like such a good design for easily detaching things when you want to and not easily detaching them when you don't. If they are the right size, they might even slide properly. If they are the right materials (aren't they usually aluminum?), they might not even rust.
Cake of the Day
Today's cake is not from the cake show. It's from Disapproving Rabbits (thanks for the link, Robert). Because if you look at a real rabbit, it is much more likely to look disapproving than cheerful and eager to please, as they are usually depicted.