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Technogasm
The differences in power, efficiency, and ease of use between a 1954 cannister vac and a 2004 upright bagless vacuum are so obvious as to not need enumerating. Wuv my new tech toy, yes I do! But the real technogasm was the Hoover Floor Mate Spin Scrub - a combination wetvac and scrubber for hard surface flooring. I hate, hate, hate scrubbing floors, and am not that fond of mopping either. With my new technotoy, I scrubbed and dried the kitchen floor, main hall and front foyer... all in about 15 minutes, without kneeling or hauling buckets of water. Wheeeeee! Oh, the built-in brushes don't have the power to get up the really stubborn stuff - that still takes a real scrub brush - and the blunt vacuum cleaner-type nose won't get under low-lying obstacles like underneath the radiators. But still! More powerful than a mop, faster than hand scrubbing, neater than buckets and with a self-squeegee feature that radically speeds up drying, this is going to end up being one of my better indulgences. Particularly since over time I want to pull up all my carpeting and refinish the hardwood floors.

And both were on sale! Sears is having a Hoover-brand sale for the rest of the week, I think.

I'm really not the suzy homemaker type. I despise housework, and consequently barely do it. But last night I managed to deal with the various floors on my main level with a wonderous minimum of fuss and bother. This is going to make future cleaning a much easier - and therefore less avoidable - task.

Last-minute Election Stuff
A lot of get-out-the-vote cartoons in today's paper, a few general commentaries on politics (Baldo addressed the media; Mother Goose and Grim just had a really funny joke about political signs), and one surprisingly blatant anti-Bush cartoon. For some reason, I would have snickered last week, but on election morning it seems crass.

I have discovered that the local classical station has been running a "Bach the vote" campaign. That amuses the heck out of me.

Date: 2004-11-02 06:58 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] acroyear70.livejournal.com
if you're talking non-sequitur? in that one, i'm not surprised at all. he's been having a field-day for years with the illogic of the Republican approach to politics and is well-known to anybody who's been reading it.

in spite of its location in the comics page, it is (and always has been) an editorial cartoon, not a funny-pages comic.

Date: 2004-11-02 07:07 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] neadods.livejournal.com
Yup. I'm not saying it's wrong, or that I even disagree with it - but that's the only cartoon, including the hyper-political ones, that directly bashed a candidate on election day.

On the other hand, Mother Goose and Grimm wins for making me laugh out loud.

A way a lone a last a loved a long the riverrun

Date: 2004-11-02 11:16 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] banazir.livejournal.com
I have discovered that the local classical station has been running a "Bach the vote" campaign. That amuses the heck out of me.
LOL, is this the one? It's Mozart-Vivaldi ("18th" Cent.) vs. Beethoven-Tchaikovsky ("19th" Cent.).

And I see they've done this before, too, and Bach's the incumbent!

For a few more chuckles:

"I Want You... To Sell Your Soul"
http://www.sinfest.net/comics/sf20041101.gif

"I want to shove their chain-smoking faces into a pile of croissants."
http://www.comics.com/comics/pearls/archive/images/pearls2732240041025.gif

"Well if I had a choice, I wouldn't read Joyce either."
http://www.comics.com/comics/pearls/archive/pearls-20041027.html

"I'd like 5 minutes to rebut myself."
http://www.comics.com/comics/pearls/archive/pearls-20041101.html

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Banazir
From: [identity profile] neadods.livejournal.com
LOL, is this the one? It's Mozart-Vivaldi ("18th" Cent.) vs. Beethoven-Tchaikovsky ("19th" Cent.)

That's the one!

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