I want a CD player, but have no idea what brand or type is appropriate as CD players seem scarce and my 20 year old tiny stereo has stopped working.
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They are getting scarce. Get one quickly is my best advice, and for longevity, a drawer that slides out to put the CD in will last better than a lid that lifts and lowers over the cd. The springs wear out on those things with age and then they don’t recognize the CD anymore.
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Oh, this would be (part of) what happened to my old one. Good to know.
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I want a big non stick wok now that I have a gas stove because I am tired of flinging rice everywhere and having thing (mainly the egg) sticking to my stainless when I try to do fried rice. Suggestions?
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One of the bon appetite chefs have talked about this- they actually don’t think woks are very good for home use. You need super hot and high fire to use them, and you need to be able to get the characteristic pateena for the characteristic flavor. 
I think his take away was just a big fry pan and don’t overcrowd it- overcrowding being one of the key amateur cook sins lol.
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The way I get around it is using a charcoal grill with a special insert that a round bottom wok can sit in. But it’s not so much fun in the winter
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Hm, but part of the problem is flinging rice everywhere. I use a chicken fryer that has ~2" sides, and it’s really hard to be careful about not flinging rice out. 
Also the sticking.
I used to have an iron wok from an Asian grocery when I still lived in an apartment with a gas stove. Now that I have induction I use this nonstick IKEA wok https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/oumbaerlig-wok-20343648/ It is not quite the same without the patina and the flat bottom, but does the job when it comes to frying noodles etc.
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I have a Cuisinart nonstick wok. I paid more for it than I am generally willing to pay for a pan because I usually buy pans at the thrift store, but I wanted a particular thing.
I am no Chinese chef, believe me, but it’s nice for stir fry and fried rice for the exact reason that I don’t end up flunging half the ingredients around the kitchen.
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Thanks everyone, especially for the recs @mialao and @Cranky! The really deep sides are I think what I really need. I am guessing I would need a flat bottomed one anyway, because the way my stove is, there are cast iron grates that sit over the gas jets, and they cross exactly over where the middle of the jets are (so it would need to be flat, or else have some sort of stand). The gas gets pans quite hot, so much so that I really can’t cook anything over medium without burning the crap out of it! So I only use high the first minute or so if I want to heat the pan fast.
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I have a carbon steel wok w a slightly flat bottom so have no non stick recco, but I am with you on needing a high sided vessel. My mom gave me this one for Christmas or I would have bought a kadai because cleaning the walls was getting old 
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Is nonstick still the best option for things like scrambled eggs? I have a cast iron that I destroyed in the goal of avoiding nonstick because the coating makes MrM nervous.
If he doesn’t like the classic non sticks (I do not, and avoid them), they’ve made a ton of progress with green ceramic nonstick options. Keys include only using it for eggs, and only using things like silicone spatulas on it. Lmk if you want a link to our current egg pan (works on induction!) that we’ve been very happy with.
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Yes please!
Ozeri ZP2-20 8-Inch Ozeri Earth… https://www.amazon.com/dp/B006MXOUKK?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share
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I don’t have brand advice, but I got my electric standing desk when a friend’s office was selling offa bunch of office furniture for pandemic reasons, so I got a pretty good discount. Not sure how applicable that strategy is, but nice if it works!
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children’s scissors that are good for kids with motor delays? Maybe @meerkat has a recommendation? Apparently we need scissors for our upcoming evaluation and I have no idea if this is something where there’s a lot of variation or not.
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Normal kids scissors are fine. It’s what we use for our telehealth OT sessions.
Our OT did encourage us to get heavier weight paper because it’s less floppy so I print his OT exercises out on those (even if the printer is temperamental about it 
) but for an eval they probably just want to see if he knows how to hold scissors, and once the scissors are in his hand can he do good “chomps”, does he know to hold the paper with his off hand while the scissors operate in the main hand. Seriously I had no idea how much coordination was involved with cutting something before I saw his OT try to walk him through it all.
My kid has an OT session today actually, it was surprising how long it took him just to hold the scissors correctly because he was determined to try every other possibility first. It never would have occurred to me how many different, incorrect ways there were to hold scissors. Eventually he got it though! But just mentioning it so you’re prepared mentally, lol.
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I laughed, not gonna lie. Children are definitely inventive!
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