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Nov. 2nd, 2004 07:44 amTechnogasm
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.
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.
