Regarding LJ changes: La la la - change. I am not a big fan. But everything morphs, it's the way of life. I suppose my job is to figure out how to cope - a life long pursuit. Mostly I just like to put my head under the covers when people talk about it.
Regarding Chairs: Why is buying the right thing so difficult (this is a self reflection, not a comment on you)? When we bought our dining room table and chairs, I though I was being so smart making sure that the wood surface had the right coating on it so that we wouldn't have to worry about rings from glasses on the table so there would be no coaster wars. But low and behold, while I got that right I forget to check to see if the wood was a hard wood, so I have a table marred with tons of dents form people writing on it - literally simply writing a note on a piece of paper on this table leaves a mark, and we write a lot around here. No rings though. I wish you luck pre-determining all the things you need and care about in your furniture before you purchase.
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Regarding Chairs: Why is buying the right thing so difficult (this is a self reflection, not a comment on you)? When we bought our dining room table and chairs, I though I was being so smart making sure that the wood surface had the right coating on it so that we wouldn't have to worry about rings from glasses on the table so there would be no coaster wars. But low and behold, while I got that right I forget to check to see if the wood was a hard wood, so I have a table marred with tons of dents form people writing on it - literally simply writing a note on a piece of paper on this table leaves a mark, and we write a lot around here. No rings though. I wish you luck pre-determining all the things you need and care about in your furniture before you purchase.