Tag: laundry day

  • doing the laundry

    Why do we call clothes “laundry” after we wear them, while they’re in the wash machine and the dryer, and all the way up to the point where we fold them and put them away in drawers or hang them on a pole, after which they become “clothes” again? Is it really all that confusing Read.

  • laundry day

    Landry day. I am so damn domesticated that the highlight of my Sunday is sitting in front of a table full of folded clothes watching Ron White videos and drinking beer. Actually, now that I think about it, that’s a pretty good day any way I slice it. Better than a bad day at work, Read.

  • useful

    Finally! Somebody’s teaching robots to do something useful! There are probably a lot of people who would look at this robot from a lab at UC-Berkeley and the first thought that would pop into their heads would be something like, “Well, that’s typical for an elitist institution, wasting time and money on building robots to Read.

  • sleepy

    No zombie dreams last night, thank goodness. No dreams at all that I can remember. I was so bushed after dinner that I could barely hang on long enough to drag myself to bed before I fell asleep. I had plans to stay up late enough to sand and finish the book shelves in the Read.

  • sleepless

    I just finished folding about three weeks’ worth of washed clothes. We wash clothes almost every day, but we never seem to get around to folding them and putting them away. Some of them, the trousers and the good shirts, get half-folded so they lay flat and we can wear them straight off the top Read.

  • Routine

    As I stood beside the tub this morning with one hand under the shower head, waiting for the running water to get just a little bit warmer than frigid, my brain cell woke up just enough to notice that there were no clean towels on the towel rack. Good brain cell! Good boy! Can you Read.

  • Laundry Day

    Today I was looking to accomplish much more modest goals than yesterday, because I was tired. I was not looking to repair windows or mow every square inch of the lawn today. Today I wanted to accomplish goals mostly while sitting on my ass. Hmmmm…. The laundry! Of course! In the past two weeks we’ve Read.

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