#chores — Public Fediverse posts

🥳 Wow, someone finally found a way to make #mathematics sound like a #household chore. "Matryoshka vs. PCA" sounds like the title of a bad sitcom where nobody laughs, but at least we learn that shrinking #embeddings is as exciting as watching paint dry. 📉🔍
https://dylancastillo.co/posts/matryoshka-vs-pca #Humor #Chores #DataScience #PCA #HackerNews #ngated

🥳 Wow, someone finally found a way to make #mathematics sound like a #household chore. "Matryoshka vs. PCA" sounds like the title of a bad sitcom where nobody laughs, but at least we learn that shrinking #embeddings is as exciting as watching paint dry. 📉🔍
https://dylancastillo.co/posts/matryoshka-vs-pca #Humor #Chores #DataScience #PCA #HackerNews #ngated

When Hell is Other People by Catharine Bramkamp

When Hell is Other People explores why writers must protect creative time from guilt, interruptions, and everyday responsibilities.
The post When Hell is Other People by Catharine Bramkamp appeared first on Writer's Fun Zone.
https://writersfunzone.com/blog/2026/08/07/when-hell-is-other-people-by-catharine-bramkamp

#inspiration #artists #CatharineBramkamp #children #chores

When Hell is Other People by Catharine Bramkamp

When Hell is Other People explores why writers must protect creative time from guilt, interruptions, and everyday responsibilities.
The post When Hell is Other People by Catharine Bramkamp appeared first on Writer's Fun Zone.
https://writersfunzone.com/blog/2026/08/07/when-hell-is-other-people-by-catharine-bramkamp

#inspiration #artists #CatharineBramkamp #children #chores

Doing all the things…

https://cynnisblog.wordpress.com/2026/08/07/doing-all-the-things/

Doing all the things…

https://cynnisblog.wordpress.com/2026/08/07/doing-all-the-things/

How to clean your garden patio with two cheap items https://www.allforgardening.com/1917109/how-to-clean-your-garden-patio-with-two-cheap-items/ #chores #Cleaning #CleaningHacks #garden #gardening #GardeningUk #housework #HowToCleanGardenPatio #HowToCleanPatio #HowToCleanPavingStones #HowToCleanSlabs #patio #PatioCleaning #SodaCrystals #SodaCrystalsPatio #WashingUpLiquidPatio

How to clean your garden patio with two cheap items https://www.allforgardening.com/1917109/how-to-clean-your-garden-patio-with-two-cheap-items/ #chores #Cleaning #CleaningHacks #garden #gardening #GardeningUk #housework #HowToCleanGardenPatio #HowToCleanPatio #HowToCleanPavingStones #HowToCleanSlabs #patio #PatioCleaning #SodaCrystals #SodaCrystalsPatio #WashingUpLiquidPatio

Tues. Aug. 4, 2026: Trying to Figure Things Out

Tuesday, August 4, 2026

Waning Moon

Pluto, Neptune, Saturn, Chiron Retrograde

Partly sunny, hot, and humid

Here we are, in the first week of August.

The Community Tarot Reading for the Week is here. We’ve switched to a new deck, which uses national parks for Major Arcana cards. It’s a really lovely, unique deck, and I enjoy working with it. I won it a few years ago in a contest.

After breakfast on Friday, we headed off to Whitney’s. I hadn’t realized how early we left –we got there a few minutes before they opened. I apologized profusely, and just looked around at what was set outside. They have enough to get setup without people prowling around early!

I bought a beautiful, big pot of Black-eyed Susans. Really lovely. On the way home, we stopped in Adams, and I picked up a blueberry pie.

My parking spot was even open when we got back, so it all worked out.

Two interesting job opportunities showed up. Very different than what I’d been thinking about, although one of them is with a company to whom I’m already preparing an LOI. So that was good timing. I accepted an invitation to an event at the Clark in mid-September, and I customized my CSA share. I did some work on the play, but I’m not particularly happy with the slow progress on that front.

I struggled with the ghostwriting, and was behind where I wanted/needed to be by the end of the day. I need to approach it from a different angle.

I cooked dinner, and then got changed and put some makeup on before trundling down to FutureLabs gallery to see the closing of my colleagues’ show. It was a lot of fun, and I’m glad I saw it. I like both of their work very much. I got to chat with a bunch of people, and my friend Gloria and I both wore the same color shirt, in different styles (fuchsia). I so rarely wear that color, but with black pants, I wanted to the color pop. We were laughing about alignment. I was also encouraged to submit at least one piece by mid-month for a curated show in October. I really like the topic, and I even have some ideas. I’m just not sure I can get it done in time. But I will try, with at least one of the ideas. It may be a good break from the stress of other projects.

Sat on the porch and read until it was too dark to read, then played with the cats.

Slept reasonably well, although Charlotte woke me around 3:30 on Saturday. I fell deeply asleep again on the sofa (confusing Bea) with strange dreams, and it took the whole gang to wake me up just before 6.

It was Lammas (“loaf mass”), so the second thing I did (after feeding the cats), was to bake cornbread, which came out very well. For breakfast, we had blackberries (also traditional for the day), and scrambled eggs, along with the cornbread.

The morning routine was fine, and I had a really good free-write session, after a rough couple of days.

After breakfast, I trotted down to the post office and back to mail the rent and some bills. It was a lovely morning, although starting to get warm.

I staged a photo of the playing card shirt I bought a few weeks ago from Savvy Hive, along with the playing card serving dishes, the playing card mug I use on Monday mornings, all on a playing card cloth. It was pretty funny. I tagged Jess from Savvy Hive in the photo, since I promised it to her when I bought the shirt.

I have two puncture marks in my abdomen. It looks like I was bitten by a snake, but it’s from Charlotte kneading me, trying to wake me up. I treated it with antibiotic cream and slapped a bandage over it so that I wouldn’t bleed all over my shirt. Guess it’s time to clip some princess claws.

I gussied up the kitchen table for August and did a bunch of housework. The rest of the day was mostly about celebrating Lammas. I did some reading, I did some resting. Lion’s Gate Portal, blah, blah, blah – just let me take a nap, okay? Go have fun with it. It’s interesting information, but this frenetic yelling on social media about it gets real old real fast. Things are always moving across the sky. Pick what you want to work with, learn about it, do it. You don’t need to download a workbook for every transit or pay someone for every shift. My block button is very busy.

Tessa got angry when we moved her off the porch when it got too hot. She refused to speak to us for the rest of the day. She is officially in her Grumpy Old Lady Era.

I did my ritual work and slept well. The cats even let me sleep in until 5 AM on Sunday. Morning routine was good. I was doing the floorwork portion of the yoga practice with Tessa supervising from the top of the mat when I looked over to see Bea next to me, also on her back, waving her paws in the air. It was hilarious. My mom slept in until 8 AM, which was good for her.

Did the morning chores, watered all the plants, did the Community Tarot Reading for the Week, which you can read here. I’m using the Tarot for the Great Outdoors, which uses National Parks for the Major Arcana.

Why is Indeed sending me listings for jobs as a line cook and a dishwasher at a local restaurant saying I would be “a great fit” when I’m signed up with them for copywriting jobs? No sense to it at all.

It was a day for puttering and getting things set up in the house so the week will run more smoothly (I hope). Tidying things up. Rearranging some things in the bathroom that were sprawling. Doing hand laundry that’s too delicate for machines. Planning my table for the author event in September – that’s coming up fast. Trying to figure out when I can start updating/freshening up my various websites. Even keeping up with new information on them isn’t enough. At least once a year, preferably twice, I have to go through each page of each website and make tweaks. That takes time, and has to be put into the work schedule. It’s not happening this week, that’s for sure! Pretty soon, it will be time to begin the fall deep clean, so that it’s done by the Equinox. I feel like I just finished the spring clean!

I played with ideas for the art piece. What story do I want to tell? What images do I want to use? How will the images and the text play off each other?

Leftovers for dinner. Tried to get my head into the game for the upcoming week. I was definitely in a better mental frame of mind than end of day Friday by the time Sunday night rolled around.

I read Charlotte MacLeod’s THE GLADSTONE BAG. I forgot how funny she is, and the way she turns standard tropes inside out, while still doing justice to the plot and the characters. I am more familiar with her work under the Alisa Craig name, but now I want to go back and re-read everything under both names. Oh, for the days when cozy mysteries were actually fun and energetic, before the hard right destroyed them, like they destroy everything they touch.

Slept reasonably well with weird dreams. I must have slept strangely, because I woke up with neck pain, and spent a portion of my meditation session on the acupressure mat, which helped.

Hitting the desk on Monday morning is intimidating only because of all the email that piles up. That’s the extent of Sunday scaries for me (which hit Monday), and for that, I am grateful.

Morning routine was fine; morning chores were morning chores.

Sat down and wrote five pages on the play. I have to rethink how to escalate the current scene. That will then give the big push to the scenes leading to the climactic sequence. But it felt good. I have a little over 30 pages to do on this draft. Keeping a steady pace this week will get it done.

I did a little over 900 words on the Llewellyn article, which went well. It needs to be 3K, and I have to research a few things after I have it drafted out, and then decide what to cut.

I switched over to the ghostwriting for the rest of the day. It was a struggle. I think I’ve figured out how to fix it, which is about damn time, since I need to get it back to them.

It was humid, warm, and rained on and off all day. The fans my friend sent did more than the small coolers.

The Republicans are just going to get away with the whole keeping McConnell on a slab so there couldn’t be a special election, aren’t they? And now Beshear pretends like his response was part of a plan to keep Republicans down a vote. Nope. Not voting for him if he runs for president. Not doing it. Not for him, not for Newsom. Most of the Democrats are so useless. On top of that, they’re letting the confirmation of the corrupt AG go through. Don’t say they “can’t” do anything. There is always something that can be done. The Republicans do whatever they want, and the Dems just sit there with their thumbs up the collective ass and shrug. Because they are complicit. Get rid of all of them and start over, with people who give a damn about their constituents.

The whole McConnell situation is grotesque on a human level, aside from the grubby politics.

The replacement vacuum was delayed and did not show up yesterday. It will probably show up today, while we are out. Let’s hope it’s still there when we get back.

Got some dates sorted out with a friend for late September. Did some noodling with the idea for the art piece, but haven’t done anything with it yet. I will start working out the story elements in the morning free-writes later this week.

Slept reasonably well, albeit with weird dreams. Up at the usual time this morning, morning routine fine. I have to do some admin this morning and will try to write a few pages of the play. Then, I take my mom down to Lenox for her appointment with the specialist. At least it should be a pretty day for a drive. And it’s in the complex with the chocolatier, so we will have a treat on our way out. I want to get an LOI out today, too, although it may be closer to the end of the day than the beginning. And maybe even go to yoga tonight!

Woke up to notes on the other ghostwriting project. We are moving forward, so I should be able to invoice the first section later today. Phew. But I have to wrestle the other assignment into shape in the next couple of days.

Somehow, it will all get done.

Hope your week is starting well!

Tues. Aug. 4, 2026: Trying to Figure Things Out

Tuesday, August 4, 2026

Waning Moon

Pluto, Neptune, Saturn, Chiron Retrograde

Partly sunny, hot, and humid

Here we are, in the first week of August.

The Community Tarot Reading for the Week is here. We’ve switched to a new deck, which uses national parks for Major Arcana cards. It’s a really lovely, unique deck, and I enjoy working with it. I won it a few years ago in a contest.

After breakfast on Friday, we headed off to Whitney’s. I hadn’t realized how early we left –we got there a few minutes before they opened. I apologized profusely, and just looked around at what was set outside. They have enough to get setup without people prowling around early!

I bought a beautiful, big pot of Black-eyed Susans. Really lovely. On the way home, we stopped in Adams, and I picked up a blueberry pie.

My parking spot was even open when we got back, so it all worked out.

Two interesting job opportunities showed up. Very different than what I’d been thinking about, although one of them is with a company to whom I’m already preparing an LOI. So that was good timing. I accepted an invitation to an event at the Clark in mid-September, and I customized my CSA share. I did some work on the play, but I’m not particularly happy with the slow progress on that front.

I struggled with the ghostwriting, and was behind where I wanted/needed to be by the end of the day. I need to approach it from a different angle.

I cooked dinner, and then got changed and put some makeup on before trundling down to FutureLabs gallery to see the closing of my colleagues’ show. It was a lot of fun, and I’m glad I saw it. I like both of their work very much. I got to chat with a bunch of people, and my friend Gloria and I both wore the same color shirt, in different styles (fuchsia). I so rarely wear that color, but with black pants, I wanted to the color pop. We were laughing about alignment. I was also encouraged to submit at least one piece by mid-month for a curated show in October. I really like the topic, and I even have some ideas. I’m just not sure I can get it done in time. But I will try, with at least one of the ideas. It may be a good break from the stress of other projects.

Sat on the porch and read until it was too dark to read, then played with the cats.

Slept reasonably well, although Charlotte woke me around 3:30 on Saturday. I fell deeply asleep again on the sofa (confusing Bea) with strange dreams, and it took the whole gang to wake me up just before 6.

It was Lammas (“loaf mass”), so the second thing I did (after feeding the cats), was to bake cornbread, which came out very well. For breakfast, we had blackberries (also traditional for the day), and scrambled eggs, along with the cornbread.

The morning routine was fine, and I had a really good free-write session, after a rough couple of days.

After breakfast, I trotted down to the post office and back to mail the rent and some bills. It was a lovely morning, although starting to get warm.

I staged a photo of the playing card shirt I bought a few weeks ago from Savvy Hive, along with the playing card serving dishes, the playing card mug I use on Monday mornings, all on a playing card cloth. It was pretty funny. I tagged Jess from Savvy Hive in the photo, since I promised it to her when I bought the shirt.

I have two puncture marks in my abdomen. It looks like I was bitten by a snake, but it’s from Charlotte kneading me, trying to wake me up. I treated it with antibiotic cream and slapped a bandage over it so that I wouldn’t bleed all over my shirt. Guess it’s time to clip some princess claws.

I gussied up the kitchen table for August and did a bunch of housework. The rest of the day was mostly about celebrating Lammas. I did some reading, I did some resting. Lion’s Gate Portal, blah, blah, blah – just let me take a nap, okay? Go have fun with it. It’s interesting information, but this frenetic yelling on social media about it gets real old real fast. Things are always moving across the sky. Pick what you want to work with, learn about it, do it. You don’t need to download a workbook for every transit or pay someone for every shift. My block button is very busy.

Tessa got angry when we moved her off the porch when it got too hot. She refused to speak to us for the rest of the day. She is officially in her Grumpy Old Lady Era.

I did my ritual work and slept well. The cats even let me sleep in until 5 AM on Sunday. Morning routine was good. I was doing the floorwork portion of the yoga practice with Tessa supervising from the top of the mat when I looked over to see Bea next to me, also on her back, waving her paws in the air. It was hilarious. My mom slept in until 8 AM, which was good for her.

Did the morning chores, watered all the plants, did the Community Tarot Reading for the Week, which you can read here. I’m using the Tarot for the Great Outdoors, which uses National Parks for the Major Arcana.

Why is Indeed sending me listings for jobs as a line cook and a dishwasher at a local restaurant saying I would be “a great fit” when I’m signed up with them for copywriting jobs? No sense to it at all.

It was a day for puttering and getting things set up in the house so the week will run more smoothly (I hope). Tidying things up. Rearranging some things in the bathroom that were sprawling. Doing hand laundry that’s too delicate for machines. Planning my table for the author event in September – that’s coming up fast. Trying to figure out when I can start updating/freshening up my various websites. Even keeping up with new information on them isn’t enough. At least once a year, preferably twice, I have to go through each page of each website and make tweaks. That takes time, and has to be put into the work schedule. It’s not happening this week, that’s for sure! Pretty soon, it will be time to begin the fall deep clean, so that it’s done by the Equinox. I feel like I just finished the spring clean!

I played with ideas for the art piece. What story do I want to tell? What images do I want to use? How will the images and the text play off each other?

Leftovers for dinner. Tried to get my head into the game for the upcoming week. I was definitely in a better mental frame of mind than end of day Friday by the time Sunday night rolled around.

I read Charlotte MacLeod’s THE GLADSTONE BAG. I forgot how funny she is, and the way she turns standard tropes inside out, while still doing justice to the plot and the characters. I am more familiar with her work under the Alisa Craig name, but now I want to go back and re-read everything under both names. Oh, for the days when cozy mysteries were actually fun and energetic, before the hard right destroyed them, like they destroy everything they touch.

Slept reasonably well with weird dreams. I must have slept strangely, because I woke up with neck pain, and spent a portion of my meditation session on the acupressure mat, which helped.

Hitting the desk on Monday morning is intimidating only because of all the email that piles up. That’s the extent of Sunday scaries for me (which hit Monday), and for that, I am grateful.

Morning routine was fine; morning chores were morning chores.

Sat down and wrote five pages on the play. I have to rethink how to escalate the current scene. That will then give the big push to the scenes leading to the climactic sequence. But it felt good. I have a little over 30 pages to do on this draft. Keeping a steady pace this week will get it done.

I did a little over 900 words on the Llewellyn article, which went well. It needs to be 3K, and I have to research a few things after I have it drafted out, and then decide what to cut.

I switched over to the ghostwriting for the rest of the day. It was a struggle. I think I’ve figured out how to fix it, which is about damn time, since I need to get it back to them.

It was humid, warm, and rained on and off all day. The fans my friend sent did more than the small coolers.

The Republicans are just going to get away with the whole keeping McConnell on a slab so there couldn’t be a special election, aren’t they? And now Beshear pretends like his response was part of a plan to keep Republicans down a vote. Nope. Not voting for him if he runs for president. Not doing it. Not for him, not for Newsom. Most of the Democrats are so useless. On top of that, they’re letting the confirmation of the corrupt AG go through. Don’t say they “can’t” do anything. There is always something that can be done. The Republicans do whatever they want, and the Dems just sit there with their thumbs up the collective ass and shrug. Because they are complicit. Get rid of all of them and start over, with people who give a damn about their constituents.

The whole McConnell situation is grotesque on a human level, aside from the grubby politics.

The replacement vacuum was delayed and did not show up yesterday. It will probably show up today, while we are out. Let’s hope it’s still there when we get back.

Got some dates sorted out with a friend for late September. Did some noodling with the idea for the art piece, but haven’t done anything with it yet. I will start working out the story elements in the morning free-writes later this week.

Slept reasonably well, albeit with weird dreams. Up at the usual time this morning, morning routine fine. I have to do some admin this morning and will try to write a few pages of the play. Then, I take my mom down to Lenox for her appointment with the specialist. At least it should be a pretty day for a drive. And it’s in the complex with the chocolatier, so we will have a treat on our way out. I want to get an LOI out today, too, although it may be closer to the end of the day than the beginning. And maybe even go to yoga tonight!

Woke up to notes on the other ghostwriting project. We are moving forward, so I should be able to invoice the first section later today. Phew. But I have to wrestle the other assignment into shape in the next couple of days.

Somehow, it will all get done.

Hope your week is starting well!

Me: What about that stuff?

Mop: What, those strands of hair and tiny bits of dried food?

Me: Yeah

Mop: Nah, that ain't me. Not in my contract.

Me: But you're already down there, right? Could you just pick 'em up?

Mop: Sorry boss, I don't wanna get you in trouble with the union. Maybe call up Vacuum?

Me: Yeah, they sent me to you though, y'know?

Mop: I get it, it's a real headache.

#chores

Me: What about that stuff?

Mop: What, those strands of hair and tiny bits of dried food?

Me: Yeah

Mop: Nah, that ain't me. Not in my contract.

Me: But you're already down there, right? Could you just pick 'em up?

Mop: Sorry boss, I don't wanna get you in trouble with the union. Maybe call up Vacuum?

Me: Yeah, they sent me to you though, y'know?

Mop: I get it, it's a real headache.

#chores

Time for some non consensual crossfit. #lawncare #cleaning #chores #househusband

🎉 I am happy to announce that my #Chores app now supports using it with Spanish, German, and Hungarian languages! 🎉

https://chores-mvp.azurewebsites.net/

There is no browser based language detection, but from the profile anyone can change the language.

#ChoresApp #ChoresMVP #MVPBuzz #PWA #multilingual

🎉 I am happy to announce that my #Chores app now supports using it with Spanish, German, and Hungarian languages! 🎉

https://chores-mvp.azurewebsites.net/

There is no browser based language detection, but from the profile anyone can change the language.

#ChoresApp #ChoresMVP #MVPBuzz #PWA #multilingual

Household domestic trivia

Yes, vacuuming. It's weekend (and electricity prices are negative for me, but does that mean I should so it?) when I'm not so constrained by 'must do it now' demands of others (work).

I broke my vacuum cleaner's head, probably by stepping on it in the dark, and it's an upright Dyson Animal Ball, so they're stopped doing that now, and no parts are officially available.

1/

#chores #repair #righttorepair

Household domestic trivia

Yes, vacuuming. It's weekend (and electricity prices are negative for me, but does that mean I should so it?) when I'm not so constrained by 'must do it now' demands of others (work).

I broke my vacuum cleaner's head, probably by stepping on it in the dark, and it's an upright Dyson Animal Ball, so they're stopped doing that now, and no parts are officially available.

1/

#chores #repair #righttorepair

Summer Chores continue apace. Not only did we have both chimneys cleaned along with the oil furnace and woodstove, we had this sharp new silver chimney pipe and fixture installed. #chore #chores #summerchores #furnacecleaning #woodstovecleaning #furnace #oilfurnace #oilfurnaces #woodstoves #heatingwithwood #maintenencecleaning #maintenence #homemaintenence #homerepair #fixup #fixups #improvements #homeimprovements

When a Sunday kitchen appliance cleaning job turns into a let's-improve-this-job due to an aged and crumbling component.

Off to get a transformer from a Big Box Store. Hopefully no eager sales clerks that get in the way with their "can I help you" as I might just say: just here to get an Autobot. 😆

#DIYsunday #electronics #chores #OnAMission

🚨 Breaking News: Men, apparently, need a manifesto to stop interrupting women and notice household chores! 🧹😱 This groundbreaking revelation comes to us from the land of tulips and windmills, where "feminism" is now practiced by making lists of #chores and hoping your daughter doesn't notice your #hypocrisy. 🌷✨ Clearly, personal practice is just a fancy term for doing the obvious. 🙄
https://bran.name/doing-the-work.html #BreakingNews #Feminism #GenderEquality #Awareness #HackerNews #ngated

🚨 Breaking News: Men, apparently, need a manifesto to stop interrupting women and notice household chores! 🧹😱 This groundbreaking revelation comes to us from the land of tulips and windmills, where "feminism" is now practiced by making lists of #chores and hoping your daughter doesn't notice your #hypocrisy. 🌷✨ Clearly, personal practice is just a fancy term for doing the obvious. 🙄
https://bran.name/doing-the-work.html #BreakingNews #Feminism #GenderEquality #Awareness #HackerNews #ngated

well I made the new splice, and the pump came to life!!

But the controller is not responding to inputs 😢

It seems to be locked at 90% power.

I don't know if I have fried the controller so it is only partially working, or if this is still due to a poor connection through the extension.

When I was making the last splice, I was noticing that the extension cord wire is quite blackened. This could be preventing a good connection?

Well at least it is working and circulating again. I am going to find another extension cord to use and see if the wiring looks more pristine.
#poolpond #DIY #backyardProject #chores

well I made the new splice, and the pump came to life!!

But the controller is not responding to inputs 😢

It seems to be locked at 90% power.

I don't know if I have fried the controller so it is only partially working, or if this is still due to a poor connection through the extension.

When I was making the last splice, I was noticing that the extension cord wire is quite blackened. This could be preventing a good connection?

Well at least it is working and circulating again. I am going to find another extension cord to use and see if the wiring looks more pristine.
#poolpond #DIY #backyardProject #chores

alright, job #1 for the day done -- dishwasher filled as much as possible (we can't do dishes in the sink due to a busted faucet pipe!)

job #2 -- update mastodon -- also done.

Feeling good…..

job #3 -- now to try again to splice in an extension line for the 2nd #poolpond pump. I'm apprehensive... feeling like it is probably not going to work and that I'm missing something else, or that the pump itself or controller has gone bad (due to my actions). I'm going to try to shorten the existing extension as much as possible in case it is something in the line or the length. If that doesn't work, I’ll use a brand new extension cord for the extension. I'm also nervous because the line I am extending is not long (thus the extension!) and I'm going to run out of cutting space at some point -- ruining the pump. :+(

wish me luck.
#DIY
#backyardProject #chores

alright, job #1 for the day done -- dishwasher filled as much as possible (we can't do dishes in the sink due to a busted faucet pipe!)

job #2 -- update mastodon -- also done.

Feeling good…..

job #3 -- now to try again to splice in an extension line for the 2nd #poolpond pump. I'm apprehensive... feeling like it is probably not going to work and that I'm missing something else, or that the pump itself or controller has gone bad (due to my actions). I'm going to try to shorten the existing extension as much as possible in case it is something in the line or the length. If that doesn't work, I’ll use a brand new extension cord for the extension. I'm also nervous because the line I am extending is not long (thus the extension!) and I'm going to run out of cutting space at some point -- ruining the pump. :+(

wish me luck.
#DIY
#backyardProject #chores

New day, new week, and (almost) new month haircut. Time to sprinkle in some errands and chores as welcome summer rain continues to sprinkle on Montana.

#Montana #hair #haircut #hairdo #shorthair #better #errands #chores #Monday #weather

New day, new week, and (almost) new month haircut. Time to sprinkle in some errands and chores as welcome summer rain continues to sprinkle on Montana.

#Montana #hair #haircut #hairdo #shorthair #better #errands #chores #Monday #weather

Just a lazy day here, went to sleep too late, in fact fell asleep playing games on my tablet, work had run long, and my usual web surfing ran longer than normal, so this means I didn't get enough sleep, nor was it particularly good. Oh well, first day of my weekend, I'll make it up when I get to it, only need to grocery shop, mow the lawn, do the laundry and accounting. That last one I think I screwed up on last weekend, so overdue bills and stuff likely await.

So far today we've gone out for breakfast, since I didn't have any rice prepared, and didn't have any potatoes for a substitute side. Not like its the only thing I've run out of, somehow massively miscalculated things, so I ran short on lunch ingredients yesterday. Either way, grabbed breakfast, took care of groceries, then had fun filling tiny libraries in St Charles on the way home, 8 or so libraries, went through two dozen books.

Might nap, prolly have a pizza for a late dinner (sticking to traditional meal names/times here), might get laundry done. Stuff can just as easily wait until tomorrow, though I do have chiro in the morning. Might get some beads and rubber bands too, also might go buy a small used TV here, basically want something near the second desk for plugging in computers I'm tinkering with that I can also plug the stereo into, and if'n it has enough HDMI ports, use as a third monitor here.

Got the coffee maker I ordered, and its… Meh. For those didn't see the post, I got a single serve coffee maker that isn't a Keurig. It can use Keurig pods, and technically reusable pods, though they fit as badly here as they do with a standard Keurig, but it also includes a reusable single serve filter. Quality is cheap, brand is non-existent, very reminiscent of a coffee maker you'd get in a hotel room, has auto shut off, but no brew limit, so you only want to put one cup of water in the tank at a time. Mom got me a new Keurig for my whelpday which I'm not sure what I'm going to do with, I mean the old one still works although it doesn't always close fully and sometimes stops brewing early, and the new one works even if'n its cheap (with coupon it only cost $22, what do you expect?), so I don't need a new Keurig… yet.

Oh, need to fully set up the newish computer, one of Vik's that I'm getting set up to use, gotta clean out Firefox before I connect it to my account so it doesn't cause chaos on my existing computers. Also prolly need to update it at this point. Guess I'll do that after updating this one, as it has kernel updates, so a reboot is required, so we might just leave it powered down, or we might reboot it. I suppose I do need to start cleaning out the computer here, right now I have two POS terminals, an iMac that I need to finish upgrades on, three Lenovo Thinkcentre thin clients, Vik's Macbook, and his Mac mini… I think that's all of them, and there's just one of me, so I should clean the collection out. Oh, and that's just the computers, there's an iPad or two, three Lenovo tablets, and iPhone or two, and lord knows how many Android phones here. If anyone needs some tech, let me know, if you need a new phone and are broke, there's a chance I can help with a chap (sub $100) replacement.

#today #android #Phones #life #coffee #coffeemaker #keurig #chores #Food #computers

Just a lazy day here, went to sleep too late, in fact fell asleep playing games on my tablet, work had run long, and my usual web surfing ran longer than normal, so this means I didn't get enough sleep, nor was it particularly good. Oh well, first day of my weekend, I'll make it up when I get to it, only need to grocery shop, mow the lawn, do the laundry and accounting. That last one I think I screwed up on last weekend, so overdue bills and stuff likely await.

So far today we've gone out for breakfast, since I didn't have any rice prepared, and didn't have any potatoes for a substitute side. Not like its the only thing I've run out of, somehow massively miscalculated things, so I ran short on lunch ingredients yesterday. Either way, grabbed breakfast, took care of groceries, then had fun filling tiny libraries in St Charles on the way home, 8 or so libraries, went through two dozen books.

Might nap, prolly have a pizza for a late dinner (sticking to traditional meal names/times here), might get laundry done. Stuff can just as easily wait until tomorrow, though I do have chiro in the morning. Might get some beads and rubber bands too, also might go buy a small used TV here, basically want something near the second desk for plugging in computers I'm tinkering with that I can also plug the stereo into, and if'n it has enough HDMI ports, use as a third monitor here.

Got the coffee maker I ordered, and its… Meh. For those didn't see the post, I got a single serve coffee maker that isn't a Keurig. It can use Keurig pods, and technically reusable pods, though they fit as badly here as they do with a standard Keurig, but it also includes a reusable single serve filter. Quality is cheap, brand is non-existent, very reminiscent of a coffee maker you'd get in a hotel room, has auto shut off, but no brew limit, so you only want to put one cup of water in the tank at a time. Mom got me a new Keurig for my whelpday which I'm not sure what I'm going to do with, I mean the old one still works although it doesn't always close fully and sometimes stops brewing early, and the new one works even if'n its cheap (with coupon it only cost $22, what do you expect?), so I don't need a new Keurig… yet.

Oh, need to fully set up the newish computer, one of Vik's that I'm getting set up to use, gotta clean out Firefox before I connect it to my account so it doesn't cause chaos on my existing computers. Also prolly need to update it at this point. Guess I'll do that after updating this one, as it has kernel updates, so a reboot is required, so we might just leave it powered down, or we might reboot it. I suppose I do need to start cleaning out the computer here, right now I have two POS terminals, an iMac that I need to finish upgrades on, three Lenovo Thinkcentre thin clients, Vik's Macbook, and his Mac mini… I think that's all of them, and there's just one of me, so I should clean the collection out. Oh, and that's just the computers, there's an iPad or two, three Lenovo tablets, and iPhone or two, and lord knows how many Android phones here. If anyone needs some tech, let me know, if you need a new phone and are broke, there's a chance I can help with a chap (sub $100) replacement.

#today #android #Phones #life #coffee #coffeemaker #keurig #chores #Food #computers

Actually some basement #chores today too. I'm tackling a long-neglected sump pump in this our recently acquired house. Nice and cool!

Looks like maybe 30yrs ago or so their sump pump broke, so they just chopped off the cord and just put a 'new' one in along side it. New one is a terrible pedestal-style thing. Don't like.

Clearing out both of them, cleaning the sump hole, making a proper lid and (scary part) checking out the out-flow pipe viability. Don't really know where it goes yet.

Actually some basement #chores today too. I'm tackling a long-neglected sump pump in this our recently acquired house. Nice and cool!

Looks like maybe 30yrs ago or so their sump pump broke, so they just chopped off the cord and just put a 'new' one in along side it. New one is a terrible pedestal-style thing. Don't like.

Clearing out both of them, cleaning the sump hole, making a proper lid and (scary part) checking out the out-flow pipe viability. Don't really know where it goes yet.

Gardening expert says 1 job before July will stop weeds growing https://www.allforgardening.com/1843905/gardening-expert-says-1-job-before-july-will-stop-weeds-growing/ #BritishSummerTime #chores #garden #gardening #housework #JulyGardeningJobs #outdoors #summer #weeds

Gardening expert says 1 job before July will stop weeds growing https://www.allforgardening.com/1843905/gardening-expert-says-1-job-before-july-will-stop-weeds-growing/ #BritishSummerTime #chores #garden #gardening #housework #JulyGardeningJobs #outdoors #summer #weeds

I... need to buy some groceries... 🛒😋😄

#Montana #empty #clean #fridge #food #groceries #errands #chores #todolist #Monday

I... need to buy some groceries... 🛒😋😄

#Montana #empty #clean #fridge #food #groceries #errands #chores #todolist #Monday

4 plants to prune in June for a dazzling summer garden display https://www.allforgardening.com/1801288/4-plants-to-prune-in-june-for-a-dazzling-summer-garden-display/ #ChelseaChop #chores #evergreens #garden #gardening #PerennialPlant #perennials #RamblingRoses #roses

4 plants to prune in June for a dazzling summer garden display https://www.allforgardening.com/1801288/4-plants-to-prune-in-june-for-a-dazzling-summer-garden-display/ #ChelseaChop #chores #evergreens #garden #gardening #PerennialPlant #perennials #RamblingRoses #roses

Exhausted mom quits doing any household chores and shares what happened after just 3 days

http://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/mom-quits-chores-experiment-chaos-ensues-ex1/

Exhausted mom quits doing any household chores and shares what happened after just 3 days

http://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/mom-quits-chores-experiment-chaos-ensues-ex1/

Tasks Made: wall art posters of linkme shop done ; sent 3x LinkMe * ; 3x Fourthwall merch * ; 4x Kofi * ; 7x GamerProfiles *.
(* suggestions)

#hometasks #tasks #chores #lusogeek #tech #suggestions #feedback #newmerch #linkme #fourthwall #kofi #gamerprofiles

Tasks Made: imported features to streamlabs/fossabot from streamelements ; created brb graphics ,,cameras chat commands ; sent 3x throne * ,4x linktree * ,5x linkme * ,9x gamerprofiles ; linkme shop of home & living not yet made. (* suggestions)

#lusogeek #creators #gamers #streamers #tasks #homework #streamtools #tech #chores #linktree #linkme #throne #gamerprofiles

There's a lot of oxygen in my blood, my heart rate is good, and I'm currently relaxed on my day off before errands and chores begin. We'll see if that continues... it's still early in the day, week, and new month of June.

#health #fitness #relaxed #heart #errands #chores #Monday #June1 #June1st #June

There's a lot of oxygen in my blood, my heart rate is good, and I'm currently relaxed on my day off before errands and chores begin. We'll see if that continues... it's still early in the day, week, and new month of June.

#health #fitness #relaxed #heart #errands #chores #Monday #June1 #June1st #June

I Spent a Week Recording Myself Doing Chores for Money. Who's the Robot Now?

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.wired.com/story/household-chores-training-robots/

I Spent a Week Recording Myself Doing Chores for Money. Who's the Robot Now?

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.wired.com/story/household-chores-training-robots/

We did our garbage run. ATV with farm cart hauling wheeled garbage and recycle pail containers 2 miles on gravel to the "curb." Pups riding in a milk crate fastened to the front rack. 15 gallon weed sprayer on the back rack. A pair of cherry lugs fastened to the front rack for various equipment I use when working in the yard. I passed two neighbors coming back from the same chore. I do a garbage run every 2 weeks when I'm home. This is the first in about 6 weeks. #chores #RuralLiving

We did our garbage run. ATV with farm cart hauling wheeled garbage and recycle pail containers 2 miles on gravel to the "curb." Pups riding in a milk crate fastened to the front rack. 15 gallon weed sprayer on the back rack. A pair of cherry lugs fastened to the front rack for various equipment I use when working in the yard. I passed two neighbors coming back from the same chore. I do a garbage run every 2 weeks when I'm home. This is the first in about 6 weeks. #chores #RuralLiving

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@sassdawe/116568934084906742

Updates have been release to: #chores

You can get it for selfhosting from https://github.com/sassdawe/chores

It's better and smarter than it was yesterday!

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@sassdawe/116568934084906742

Updates have been release to: #chores

You can get it for selfhosting from https://github.com/sassdawe/chores

It's better and smarter than it was yesterday!

Tasks made 2: added leaflets and manuals of kodak photography ,telefunken radio ,philips radio ,philips black & white tv ,philips vinyl player to olx/ebay ; added rumble chat command (no account info).
#tasks #hometasks #chores #lusogeek #manuals #leaflets #vintage #retro #shopping #shop #chatcommands #olx #ebay #sellers #eusellers #europesellers

'Lewis takes up a debate with several Black feminists who have, at various times, questioned the idea of family abolition, whose central argument has been that, very often, Black families have been sites of resistance against racism. Similarly, we could point to many experiences of class struggle in which sectors of working families have played a key role against the attacks of capital: supporting strikes, establishing relations of solidarity between factories and neighborhoods, staging rent strikes, maintaining soup kitchens, creating movements in defense of public services, and many other forms of resistance. The tradition of “women’s commissions” in strikes, for example, has allowed the working class to articulate fighting forces far beyond the workplace.

'To this criticism Lewis responds that, even so, we should not cease working for the abolition of the family, since we would not need its “protective shield” if we managed to build a society without racism. The argument contains a grain of truth, but it stops halfway. It fails to contemplate the role that the family relations within sectors of the working class and oppressed can play in moments of heightened class struggle. On another level, it doesn’t account for the fact that capitalism, while it needs such a “social cell” for its own reproduction, constantly undermines working families’ very conditions of existence. Marx and Engels remarked on this in the mid-19th century, pointing to the length of the working day, the lack of decent housing, and the general precariousness of working class life.'

Josefina L. Martínez : https://www.leftvoice.org/love-and-care-beyond-capitalism/

#property #gender #subordination #dependence #family #debates #debate #abolition #antiCapitalism #Fourier #Lewis #sociology #anthropology #communities #feminism #feminisms #chores #care #queer #rainbowMafia #historyOfIdeas #Marxism #relationships #abolitionism #culturalism #radicalFeminism #materialism #classes #revolution #domesticWork #classStruggle #careWork #historyOfFeminism

'Lewis takes up a debate with several Black feminists who have, at various times, questioned the idea of family abolition, whose central argument has been that, very often, Black families have been sites of resistance against racism. Similarly, we could point to many experiences of class struggle in which sectors of working families have played a key role against the attacks of capital: supporting strikes, establishing relations of solidarity between factories and neighborhoods, staging rent strikes, maintaining soup kitchens, creating movements in defense of public services, and many other forms of resistance. The tradition of “women’s commissions” in strikes, for example, has allowed the working class to articulate fighting forces far beyond the workplace.

'To this criticism Lewis responds that, even so, we should not cease working for the abolition of the family, since we would not need its “protective shield” if we managed to build a society without racism. The argument contains a grain of truth, but it stops halfway. It fails to contemplate the role that the family relations within sectors of the working class and oppressed can play in moments of heightened class struggle. On another level, it doesn’t account for the fact that capitalism, while it needs such a “social cell” for its own reproduction, constantly undermines working families’ very conditions of existence. Marx and Engels remarked on this in the mid-19th century, pointing to the length of the working day, the lack of decent housing, and the general precariousness of working class life.'

Josefina L. Martínez : https://www.leftvoice.org/love-and-care-beyond-capitalism/

#property #gender #subordination #dependence #family #debates #debate #abolition #antiCapitalism #Fourier #Lewis #sociology #anthropology #communities #feminism #feminisms #chores #care #queer #rainbowMafia #historyOfIdeas #Marxism #relationships #abolitionism #culturalism #radicalFeminism #materialism #classes #revolution #domesticWork #classStruggle #careWork #historyOfFeminism

Why buy a weighted blanket when you can just dump your clean laundry on your blanket and never fold it?

#ProTip #WeightedBlanket #chores

Why buy a weighted blanket when you can just dump your clean laundry on your blanket and never fold it?

#ProTip #WeightedBlanket #chores