Despite living in Minnesota for a year and a half now, I didn't really know anything about Walz and it's been fun finding out about him since being picked for running for veep.

That's a lot, Gud! I am enjoying your Governor tremendously.

I got some laundry done this weekend; that's about it for chores. I did a library run to return two books I finally found and got the replacement fees wiped out. Then put a couple more on hold, so that's exciting. I also grabbed one to read right now -- Sula. I have neglected Toni Morrison, so I'm rectifying. I mean, in the last two decades my reading has just tanked, so I've neglected a lot, honestly.

Today I'm going to buy a pair of jeans I like. I do not enjoy the ones I have, and I miss wearing jeans. So, there you go.

This weekend I took the dogs for a 3 mile walk, changed the oil in my car, recycled the oil, did three loads of laundry and put them away, vacuumed and steam cleaned the upstairs hallway, did some computer stuff for my wife, did a couple loads of laundry, did the grocery shopping for the week, went to the hardware store (using my trike and trailer) to get salt for the water softener, cooked dinners, and fixed the squeaky drawers in the upstairs bathroom. However, I didn't do the first floor vacuuming or cleaned up the basement or got rid of the pile of empty cardboard boxes in the garage. So got some stuff done, but didn't get as much as I should have.

Whoa! Let's back up there and highlight the most important detail in your weekend work report to refute your last sentence: "did three loads of laundry and put them away..."

It is known that putting the laundry away is by far the hardest hill to climb among any household chore. How many have done the wash, even done the folding and then let it sit in piles? But not you, Gud!

I need you to go get back on the podium and accept your gold medal in chore doing and Excellence In Laundry Completion.

Seriously. My sheets remain unfolded as does a hamper full of clean clothes from before the weekend. Ahem.

My mother always puts stuff away, but then when she dressed as Wonder Woman for Halloween when I was a kid, I wasn't totally sure it was a costume. (Sometimes I feel weird mixture about all the stuff disability...kind of gets me off the hook for. Because, when I'm missing stuff, it sure as hell isn't laundry...well, except for the one place I lived in college where it became kind of a flashpoint for the attendants and then people put underwear in my hamper with, well...never mind. But there have been times I wanted to handle it myself, I suppose.) But I can't ever even say stuff like that, or that I'm glad that I have time to write or for political activity, without seeming like I Think The World Owes Me A Living(Does it make anyone feel better that I think it owes you one, too? Sometimes.)

It is known that putting the laundry away is by far the hardest hill to climb among any household chore.

Putting all the clean, folded laundry away is the dream, man.

Yeah I am v good at doing laundry and even at folding it straight out of the dryer, but putting it away?? Nahhhhh

Flat is .00

Yep. THIS IS HOW I LEARNED IT IN SPORTING EVENTS, NBC. TWO MINUTES FLAT IS NOT TWO AND A QUARTER MINUTES.

I, umm, might have learned it from horse racing. Go fig.

IT IS LITERALLY WHAT FLAT MEANS.

Ahem.

I really try to support taxis over Lyft and Uber, but damn if they don’t make it hard.

Timelies all!

We had to put our cat, Luna, to sleep last night. She was 17, and had a lot of medical problems, but it’s still hard for all of us. We were all with her until the end.