Small lunch failure

I had intended to make crêpes before recognizing how I was impeded by that the movers took my sieve and my kitchen scale; with luck, I'll next see those in September. Fortunately, there were backup options, which I had time to think about because I make the batter a little in advance.

Surprisingly complimentary service

Since the movers took my scanner and printer, I have relied on external agencies to assist me in signing and returning documents. To my considerable surprise, UPS has handled my small print jobs for free, and Staples my scanning jobs. They are certainly earning some goodwill.

Electrical tape brings mixed results

I am fed up of laptop power supplies developing a break in the cable because the insulation and housing is so thin and flimsy that the conductor keeps bending a lot in the same place. Cleverly, or so I imagined, I took to preemptively wrapping the end of the cable in electrical tape, down to a little ways from the plug, in such a way as to arrest its curvature.

However, what defeats my cunning plan is that the bending seems to make the tape slide. After a while, the taped part of the cable develops a high-curvature region which, while fixed easily by the application of more tape, makes me wonder how many rolls of tape it takes, and how absurd the resulting charging cable will look, if I repeatedly adopt this solution over a fair few years of the computer's life.

I'm missing a better solution, aren't I?