There's a cleaning lady in my house, at the invitation of my landlady. After a few moments of working around her and even helping a little with my own messes, like taking out the trash, it seemed wisest to just withdraw into my room and her do what she likes. I kind of hope she gives my room a pass; it's been a sty since I stopped using it as a ( Read more... )

I finally called Ricky back just now. He wants to come down for Art Beat this year. We went to only a little bit of 2005's (2006 being the Ricky-(and-art-)free Volity Year) but he has only good memories of it, as well as sadness that he didn't buy "that piece with the string". I don't remember this ( Read more... )

http://theminiblog.co.uk/archives/2006/11/16/how-to-cleaning-the-apple-keyboard/

I'm totally doing this this weekend. After three years, my keyboard is really quite disgusting. I'm embarrassed to let other people use it.

I'm on my couch and feeling mellow. Part of this is because I have been cleaning lately, and I am greatly calmed by the - well, I suppose it isn't order, really, so much as a moving towards orderliness that fills my apartment. I mean, there's still crap all over the place, but it looks slightly more right than it did yesterday, when it looked a bit ( Read more... )

The night before the morning of your important business meeting, make sure you know where your Zipcard is.

Now I have a torn-up apartment and will soon be hundreds if not thousands of dollars poorer from the taxi I'll have to use.

Once again growing skeptical of the participatoryculture.org folks. Their DTV channel guide is moderated, and they don't tell you why or how, though they mumble things about decency standards in the FAQ. I can understand wanting to be wary of porn and spam, but surely there are better ways of attending to this than using human bottlenecks? Over the ( Read more... )

Noticed fruit flies hanging out near the sink. OK: time to do the dishes. Turn on water, flies skedaddle to wherever fruit flies go when the jig is up. Fill up sink, do dishes, drain sink to get at the silverware and finish up.

Notice sizeable clump of very recently deceased insect pupae in the corner of the sink. That wasn't my first thought. My ( Read more... )

Have already noted how I spent NYE cleaning stuff; decided yesterday that I'd let that set the tone for home maintenance this year. So, retroactive resolution: I shall never feel compelled to apologize for the mess again, by virtue of the mess being absent ( Read more... )

Most of my bloggish friends seem to think 2003 was pretty crappy. For me, the year went all right. Was hoping for more, though. Didn't get as much done as I'd expected. I thought I'd have Volity finished, and some other inventions besides (BrainDump, Cooking for Hackers, and so on); am only halfway done with it (but still plugging away, drawing in ( Read more... )

Cleaning is its own reward, especially when there is forgotten Christmas chocolate underneath the rubble covering the dining room table.

(Really rich chocolate makes me sneeze.)