It looks like the Scooba can vacuum or sweep:

4-stage cleaning process:

1. Preps - picks up dirt, sand and crumbs

2. Washes - uses only clean solution to wash floors (mops just spread around dirty water)

3. Scrubs - powerful brush removes dirt, grime and stuck-on messes

4. Squeegees - lifts dirty water from floors

Aw. I think maybe meara does say "hrmph." I just say "hmph."

I adore both.

I'm reading a coroner's report for a male patient who died on a trial, and she says, "The external genitalia are unremarkable."

Well, that's just mean!

The developer next to me keeps popping up and talking quasi-code with me. I'm having a surprisingly good comprehension day and seem to be making good suggestions about stuff I hardly know about.

But between him and the other developer I've had to master nodding sagely when I have absolutely no idea what's going on. I'm flattered they bounce stuff off me, but I'm the data and business analysis chick! I don't speak of the intricacies of Java webscripts.

I am really annoyed that, when I type information into Google about children born abroad becoming US citizens, all I get is pages and pages of birther/Obama is secretly Kenyan crap.

Tell me about it. Researching Russian wedding gifts was pretty much 90% what to bring to your mail order bride. Feh.

Hee! I do say hrmph. I'm glad you're amused. I think you can spell it however you grump it. :)

I slept...sporadically. Until it was fairly much daylight out, at which point I slept a little better (and then the garbage trucks were out, and I was sleeping better but being woken up by actual noises, rather than "OMG WHAT WAS THAT NOISE??" noises)

Have called locksmith, and someone is coming to rekey the locks shortly. Have not gotten any unpacking done (other than quickly frantically dragging out the printer and some paper, so I could print the web coupon for the locksmith). Have done some work though. Am going over to a friend's to keep him company again (he had surgery last week, and can't lift anything and is all doped up still, so had people sign up to keep him company, and I figured I have the most flexible schedule, among our friends, and could work from his house)

I just discovered there's a "publisher" (Alphascript, google ti) that takes a bunch of Wikipedia articles, puts them together, slaps a stock photo cover on it, and sells it as a POD book on Amazon for $80+. And this is apparently perfectly legal, as there is a disclaimer in the print book that all the articles come from Wikipedia and are in the public domain. They have many thousands of these "books" listed at Amazon, and they have ISBNs.

Man, "publishing" amazes me.

I am waiting for a fax to be received in New York (from Iowa), so they can scan it and email it to me here in MA, so I can submit it electronically to the federal government. Good times.

That seems...overly complicated. Good grief.

I've been putting beets in our juicer! Beet, carrot, orange = DELICIOUS!

I now live right near the healthy juicer store, where there's a beet/ginger/apple/aloe/tons of other crap drink that is very delicious! But makes you pee funny colors.

got waked up in the wee hours this morning by a mouse scampering across me while I slept.

That is worse sleep that I got. Good lord. Ick. Ew. Gross. Poor Matt.

r a one stop on Virgin America that's about fifty bucks less, but requires 7AM flights on both ends.

Maybe if the other choice were like, AwfulAirline. But JetBlue? Take the nonstop at decent hours!!

Does the Scooba do an initial wipe-down with a dust cloth before the mop up?

NO! Because I was looking at the Scooba, and found out if you...um...happen to be really bad at sweeping, you need a Roomba BEFORE the Scooba! (Hmm, but then your information is saying different. Maybe they've improved it...)

Oh, also, I have this old friend, who I realized gets in touch with me every couple of years when he's having romantic woes, kind of to pull on the old thread, just like some peoples' ex-boyfriends do. But he was never my boyfriend! (For which I am now, knowing what I know of him the past 16 years, deeply grateful.) Also, he's an idiot! He's having another mid-life crisis and wants to buy a motorcycle and spend the summer exploring America (he's 36; he had his first at 28; also he has broken one engagement and gotten one divorce, not involving the same woman, in the past 8 years. He's also in the 6th year of writing his dissertation, and has been in grad school since 1996).

I wish I didn't like him so much, despite his idiocy.

Question for librarians out there re: recommended library school classes.

I'll be done with my three required classes by the end of the year, and then I'll be able to take whatever nine classes I want to complete my degree. For my post-degree career, I would love to work in a public library again, but after chatting with my sister last night about my poking around the LISJobs website yesterday, I'm thinking that I also wouldn't mind working in DC for either the federal government or maybe one of the museums.

Are there certain classes I could take that would cover all three tracks: museums, government, and public? Looking at the course catalog for Dominican, I see four different speciality reference database classes, a few on special libraries, and one that I was already planning on taking on government documents (which will be great for my current job).