I think hiring someone to wash my kitchen floor at $10 an hour once a week would be as effective as a Scooba, if less cool. Damn this waiting around until the kids are old enough to be useful as manual domestic labor... I think I have at least 4 years to wait.
Everybody dies, Tracey. Someone's carrying a bullet for you right now, doesn't even know it. The trick is to die of old age before it finds you.
Mal ,'The Message'
Natter 41: Why Do I Click on ita's Links?!
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
flea - Jan 04, 2006 11:54:56 am PST #7469 of 10002
information libertarian
Jesse - Jan 04, 2006 11:55:23 am PST #7470 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Tip: When using Scooba on sealed hardwood floors, inspect the floor surface for worn finish, bare wood, or separated and unsealed joints. Do not use Scooba on your hardwood floor if any of these conditions exist.
Oh. Forget it, then. My kitchen and bathroom are, combined, probably the size of the average US bathroom. Everything else is slightly-crappy hardwood.
§ ita § - Jan 04, 2006 11:57:00 am PST #7471 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Damn this waiting around until the kids are old enough
Dude, that's what the third world is for.
Gudanov - Jan 04, 2006 11:57:38 am PST #7472 of 10002
Coding and Sleeping
Hmmm, Skynet. I never saw T3 so I don't know the whole scoop. For that matter it's been a long time since I've seen any movie starring the governer of California, so I don't remember exactly what the deal with Skynet was.
sarameg - Jan 04, 2006 11:58:47 am PST #7473 of 10002
God forbid it learns to knock the cat unconscious as a preventative measure.
Until it gains jumping capabilities, the felines are safe. One of mine gets the concept of buttons to turn things off.
Betsy HP - Jan 04, 2006 11:58:47 am PST #7474 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
flea, mine are 15 and 12 and they haven't learned to mop. I so fail as a mother.
P.M. Marc - Jan 04, 2006 11:59:49 am PST #7475 of 10002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Tip: When using Scooba on sealed hardwood floors, inspect the floor surface for worn finish, bare wood, or separated and unsealed joints. Do not use Scooba on your hardwood floor if any of these conditions exist.
I will note that this tip is pretty much identical to the one seen on almost any cleaning/mopping product dealing with wood floors. As my floor is so worn as to be effectively unfinished, there's not a single liquid I'm supposed to use on it. This doesn't stop the annual application of Murphy's Oil Soap and Mop, of course.
However, the floor I want it for is the crummy vinyl one, so...
Gudanov - Jan 04, 2006 12:00:44 pm PST #7476 of 10002
Coding and Sleeping
Emaryn loves to mop, Leif does too, but only for about 20 seconds.
Jesse - Jan 04, 2006 12:00:48 pm PST #7477 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
flea, mine are 15 and 12 and they haven't learned to mop. I so fail as a mother.
Do they do other stuff, though? I never mopped my parents' house, either. My chores were other things, presumably because my parents decided they'd rather mop than do laundry.
§ ita § - Jan 04, 2006 12:02:14 pm PST #7478 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
The idea of curling up on my cuddle lounge and watching something on TiVo or listening to my iPod while I wirelessly surf the web on my Powerbook while Roomba scoots around and does my vacuuming...hot.