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Break time.
I haven’t gotten that much done yet, but then again, I have.
Generally , when I clean, I get all the big tasks first, then head to the little ones. Let me explain further. We’ll just do the downstairs as an example. I start with the living room, picking up any clothes that have been left behind from getting the kids ready for school, and toss them in the kitchen (the washer is in the kitchen). Then I toss all toys in a corner. Any plates or glasses that were left behind get picked up. Then I go to the kitchen (notice I haven’t vacuumed yet). I start the wash, and load the dishes. Wipe down the stove and counters, tossing any crud onto the floor. Then I sweep. Now it’s time to head to the half-bath. Sweep there, and set the trash in the doorway. Head back to the kitchen, grab the trash there. Take out the trash. Then I grab the mop and bucket, and start mopping the kitchen, hallway, and half-bath. Go back to the living room, and vacuum. Then I usually head upstairs and pick up the bedrooms, clear the tub of toys, sweep, mop, vacuum, and come back down. That’s when I grab the cleaners and erasers and such and start wiping down tables, walls, and and other counters (downstairs and up).
I haven’t done it in that order today.
I don’t know why.
Just being different I suppose.
Anyway, I don’t think I’ll get all of that done, because I have a lot of laundry to go through. We kinda relaxed this weekend. We did the laundry, but never sorted it and put it away. All of it is on the sofa right now. So, I’ve got to sort the laundry out, and pack it upstairs.
Sounds like fun, huh?
Anyway, break’s over. Back to work.

Silly Diana….

I have no idea why, but Diana likes the picture I left as a comment on RadioShack‘s profile…

It of course is a joke. The “product” I am holding is the 2003 RadioShack Catalog, which was not released to the public. It was intended to be run on a demo PC or the defunct MSN Internet Center, for customers to look through – RS Corp. had decided to kill the print catalog.


Anywho, I wound up with a copy of the catalog with a bunch of support discs and other useless RS and Tandy junk from when I worked out there.

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So, Walmart took the largest portion of the paper this week…
Is it sad that the opening of the the Supercenter is “big news”?

I’ve been thinking about that for a few days now…

… and it bugs me.

Why is everyone so excited?  We had an old wally-world. Now we’ve got a new one, that can sell us groceries and change our tires… what exactly is the big deal?  Were we really aching for another grocery and lube center?

Sure, we got 180 new jobs…

…but,

…what if what everyone fears but doesn’t discuss happens? One of the other groceries closes, a service center, a liquor store, and so on, how many jobs will have been lost because of Walmart?

Sure, I honestly do not buy into the hype of Walmart driving other business out. It’s a load of crap to me. The local economy hasn’t suffered since the creation of the dozen or so other supercenters within reasonable driving distance. The only thing I’ve noticed is that the local consumers have gotten more intelligent. They actually shop around now.

Ah, well.

I’m getting tired and can’t rant anymore…

boredom

I was bored, so i started going through my documents and rearranging files. I ran across a couple more old .pst’s that I had forgotten about, and imported all the old emails into my current archive. (I’ve bounced around to several computers over the years, and have tried to keep everything…)

My GDS index is growing now, since the addition of all the old emails I had “lost”. Currently I able to search through 83,053 items…

Diana should be home fairly soon…