'Out Of Gas'
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.
remember that a half-assed vacuuming job looks almost as good as a careful vacuuming job.
Heh.
Somewhat relatedly, here is my Guide to Cleaning a Room in Five Minutes:
This wont' work too well on a room that's overwhelmingly messy, but it can make a big difference on a moderately messy situation.
Thank god I never go on trips. I work until 10pm occasionally and the house is a disaster, and last night he couldn't even get the kids in bed. Even when I leave specific suggestions ('please empty the dishwasher'), nothing happens.
Pick the one thing that most contributes to a room's messy appearance.
Clean/take care of that one thing.
Repeat until five minutes are up.
So true! I end up with junk (mail, etc.) on the part of my sofa that I'm not sitting on, and just dealing with that makes the room almost instantly not a pig sty.
Or, you know, the four pairs of shoes in front of my couch right now.
Can we have Gud cloned? I promise to never criticize my Gud clone's housekeeping.
Cool graph time!
Job Voyager is a set of interactive charts showing changing occupations reported to the US Census Bureau from 1850-2000. It was by the University of California at Berkeley from data collected by the University of Minnesota’s Population Center using the visualization software Flare. You can use the feature to examine the rise and fall of different occupations and gender roles in American history.
Cool graph time!
Whoa, the one for Actor is interesting. The field peaked in the 1930s, and then plummeted until no one acted in the 1980s, and it started growing in the 1990s again.
I should point out that the Royals are no longer the worst team in the AL. This could be a good year for them. They even have a shot at not being the worst team in their division.
The house is mostly my responsibility. I work maybe 20 hours a week - he works closer to 60. Mostly it works. If I worked more, or there were kids involved, it would have to change drastically. But I am not sure how I could convince him to get back in the habit of doing more stuff. Somehow he has forgotten that thing like dishes have to be done everyday.