I Hate Cleaning.

One thing I hate is how much time I spend cleaning, and how unsatisfactory my results often are. It’s really hard to keep up with dust and dirt, I track a lot of it coming back in from the woods and wilderness. Soap scum and dust build up on everything. It helps when I remember to leave a few hours each week to do some cleaning, but it’s still difficult to keep up.

When I eventually own land and an off-grid house, I am going to go for hardened tile and other “bare” floors that I can sweep, scrape, and wash the mud and muck off of. I might try to take my boots off more before coming inside, and make sure to have and use a muck scraper near my door, but I’m sure it will still come in.

Lyon Mountain

From the Cumberland Head-Grand Isle Ferry, with Cumberland Head in the foreground and Lyon Mountain-area in the background.

Taken on Sunday March 26, 2006 at Plattsburgh.

Xfce – Wikipedia

Xfce – Wikipedia

I run the XFCE 4.13 desktop environment on my laptop. The last time there was "major revision" to XFCE was on September 25, 2003 but the software is regularly updated with bug fixes and support for the latest hardware and software.

I like XFCE because it's fast, reliable and never changes. It works like computers did 25 years ago -- XFCE 4.0 in 2003 was throwback back to an earlier, simpler time. And I think that's a good thing!