Good heavens. What is wrong with the world? (eta: If I didn't get news from the Buffistas, I'd never know anything was going on.)

This weekend, I am doing more absolutely nothing. I got up today and tried to work around the house in preparation for having classes tomorrow, but it was a rank failure, so I've canceled tomorrow's classes.

But there's still the memorial service, so I have to decide if I'm healthy enough for that or not. I'm thinking not, but mostly because I don't want to be a huge freaking distraction by horking up a lung during the worship music or something. Blargh.

Otherwise, I'm spending my whole weekend watching my parents' flight status as they progress from Kona to Indiana. Although I just saw it change from not departed to in flight, which will likely be the only excitement for the next five hours.

When flying huge long distances (edit: Atlanta, not NY, to J'burg, S.A. & back) I grew to hate the flight tracker. Look! We're still over a huge expanse of blue! 4 hours later OMG, has it moved at all!

Much better for continental flights, I think.

I've got a haircut appointment tomorrow. That's all that's official. Hey, anyone know a better technique than a roll of paper towels to clean a huge expanse of mildly filthy windows? Cloth towels are too linty and newspaper leaves more film.

I've always found newspaper to be the best, sarameg. But I haven't actually cleaned a window in years - I've heard that the new soy-based inks made the wondowcleaning not so effective.

There's always squeegees.

Good heavens. What is wrong with the world? (eta: If I didn't get news from the Buffistas, I'd never know anything was going on.)

This.

I have several parties to go to this weekend, and I really super double plus need to do laundry.

If I didn't get news from the Buffistas, I'd never know anything was going on.

Wrod. I hate watching the news, and don't much like reading it (as in a newspaper or most online news sites), so mostly rely on a good friend that I work with who is a news junky. With b.org, sometimes I actually know things before him!

Hey, anyone know a better technique than a roll of paper towels to clean a huge expanse of mildly filthy windows?

I use handi wipes to wash the grime off and paper towels for the final pass.

Hey, anyone know a better technique than a roll of paper towels to clean a huge expanse of mildly filthy windows?

Sponge, dishcleaning soap, hot water, squeejee.

There's also squirting on some degreasy stuff like Formula 409 before the spongey pass. And buying Very Cheap paper towels for industrial-strength clean up. BTW, the high end towels have chemicals on them that make them soak up water faster, but it will also streak on glass, so buy the cheapy towels for this sort of cleanup.

A squeejee is beyond my commitment to cleaning anything. But this

the high end towels have chemicals on them that make them soak up water faster, but it will also streak on glass, so buy the cheapy towels for this sort of cleanup.

is an immense help! I always wondered why my paper towels left streaks.

This is for a 5 panels of sliding glass doors (probably 16 feet of window,) so handiwipes would be expensive (I use them for the car, though.) I use a squeegee on the outside, but inside I end up with puddles and a mess. That's a me-problem. I guess cheap towels are probably the best.

I did actual work today, plus got a phone and a phone number and my own cube and computer.

Not as tired as I'd expected given the lack of sleep last night--perhaps re-ordering the meds is a win.

This weekend? Apart from the standard (acupuncture, teach), I have one more night of celebrating the longest birthday ever, and then I think I get to spend time alone that I'm not apprehensive about.