Showing posts with label dust. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dust. Show all posts

Sunday, July 13, 2008

Forgetful or Just Plain Sidetracked-I Just Don't Know

Oh my goodness! I forgot to get to the blog today. I don't know what to write about but here goes anyway.The other day we were out driving around and went to a couple of stores. One of the stores we went to was a half price book store. We stopped and looked around for a while. I bought a couple of paper back books. The books were some vintage MAD Magazine Spy vs Spy and Dave Berg books. Brought 'em home and read them yesterday and last night.

Meanwhile, Chris started rummaging around here at the house. After a short time she comes into the bedroom with about 100 different cartoon paper back books. Among the books she found were Hagar, the Horrible; Tumbleweeds; Peanuts; MAD Magazine; Beetle Bailey and a host of others.

I started looking at some of the paper backs earlier today and decided I would try to put some on eBay. I got started on that and then time got away from me and all of a sudden I realized I spent time doing eBay and not the blog.

Oh well, maybe I'll get some money from them instead of a bunch of dust.

By the way, why do things collect dust when it just sits?


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Monday, January 28, 2008

I've Got It Cornered, Now I Need A Market

What is it with dust? It is everywhere. Don't get me wrong. I'm not complaining about the house being messy. Chris does an excellent job with the house.


What I'm talking about are the out of the way places that you normally don't think about. Like my desk. Like behind all the computer stuff on my desk. I was cleaning off my desk the other day and I can tell you that if there was a global market for dust, I would have surely cornered it. There was dust covering the cables, the external hard drives, the USB ports, mouse docks, cable modem, back of the monitor, and so on. Admittedly, this was not 100% Texas dust. Some of it was probably blown in from the western US, or even Mexico. There was also a good amount of hair from the cats. It seems that they have found a way to take their excess hair and place it in just such a way that it forms a nice even layer over all of my electronics.


Further inspection found the same layer covering my cpu and ups. Cleaning those kicked up a minor dust storm. The National Weather Service later issued a Dense Fog Advisory for the area. I am convinced it was from me kicking up all that dust. The printer wasn't much better.


After thorough cleaning a liberal application of Old English Lemon Oil was applied to the desk. I was certain that I heard a barely audible, "Thank you!" I'm not sure if it was Chris or the desk.


Say! If any of you need any dust mixed with a liberal dose of cat fur, let me know. As of today I am starting a new batch and expect it to be ready in a month or two. Let me know soon. I am certain that there is going to be a limited supply available which makes it very valuable. I am thinking of seeing if I can get it listed on the Futures Market. I believe that this would be considered dust for March 28 delivery. I am even thinking of joining OCD, (Organization of Computer dust Distributors).

That's strange. OCD makes me think of something else. I'm not sure what. I'm sure it doesn't apply to me though.


It seems I was in my classroom at the beginning of school. I had to change classes and I was getting it ready. I looked on top of the projector screen and saw dust. That had to go. I cleaned it. The more I looked in the room I found dust, dust, and more dust. There were also old staples in the walls and cork tack strips. I had to take them all out. I don't like staples in the cork tack strips. If I have spare time I will go in the hall and take staples out that some teachers leave behind. AAARGH!! Maybe there is an opening for me at OCD. You know what that is I'm sure; The Organization of Cork-strip De-staplers.


Bye. I see more dust and staples to take care of.

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