Oh, and I was surprised that the Vultee XP-54 Swoose Goose had a 2,300 hp engine but a top speed of only 381 mph. The P-38, P-47 and P-51 (the main USAAF fighters of the time) were all faster. Pro'lly why the thing never entered production.

I've read higher figures for the XP-54's speed, but it and it's engine were definitely flawed. Still, very cool looking.

For people who have had bedbugs and/or think they might have them: DIY Bedbug Detector Interesting. They say CO2 is better at attracting them than heat.

Also:

Studies from early in the last century may not describe today’s bedbugs well, says entomologist Andrea Polanco-Pinzón of Virginia Tech in Blacksburg. Older generations of bedbugs weren’t resistant to pesticides and lived in tougher environments: houses without central heating.

On the bright side though, Polanco-Pinzón reported at the meeting that her survival tests found that a pesticide-resistant strain she collected from Richmond, Va., lived at most two months without feeding. That record, set by the fifth stage of the immature bugs, falls far short of the year and a half reported in the old literature.

I have found that I don't care what a housemate or boyfriend does to help, just that he's not sitting while I am not. Steve and I found a good solution was for him to take the dogs out while I cleaned/cooked/puttered. Got them all out of my way, and I didn't feel like someone's slave. But we didn't live together, and he wasn't working, so we had our own issues.

I have found that I don't care what a housemate or boyfriend does to help, just that he's not sitting while I am not.

so much this. It's not so much the task as the feeling you are the only one contributing.

Huh. I don't mind if only one of us is doing chores at a time, so long as I feel there's not a huge net imbalance.

It's not so much the task as the feeling you are the only one contributing.

Yup!

Huh. I don't mind if only one of us is doing chores at a time, so long as I feel there's not a huge net imbalance.

Yeah, the problem with me and Steve is that if I am sitting, he also sits. He simply doesn't do stuff if I am not.

My mom use to get really irate with my dad, because she'd be working on something she considered direly important to keeping the house working properly, and he'd be sitting there, reading a book. (They both had full-time jobs for most of my childhood.) It wasn't that dad was unwilling to help with household things, it was that he and mom fundamentally disagreed on what household things mattered. For example, dad firmly believed that no house ever fell down due to a living room being one color or another, and he refused to get involved with repainting. Mom would look at a living room that hadn't been painted in 10 years and think it looked like we lived in a slum. So she'd spend hours selecting the right paint, doing the painting, cleaning up after the painting, and dad would be sitting there with his book. They'd both be cranky about the whole thing for weeks after the paint dried.

It's really amazing they both died of natural causes.

Often when DH appears to be "sitting around" he's actually working on some project.