Tag: routine maintenance

Phone it in Friday CXXII: YouTube Roundup CLXXXII: House Cleaning

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This week I’m really phoning it in, as the video today is showcasing someone else’s hard work.

My pastor started a cleaning business, Cornerstone Cleaning Solutions.  He specializes in carpet cleaning—and, boy, does he do an amazing job—but  he also does general house cleaning, including my least favorite chore:  dusting.

I had to get my house on the market and it was suffering from seven-odd-years of an overworked man’s routine.  Without a regular feminine presence, the dust had piled  up into thicc (as the kids say) layers.  It was pretty disgraceful, and definitely not fitting for showings.

Yours portly worked overtime for about two weeks to dust and declutter simply to prepare for my pastor to come in and work his magic.  He spent eight hours on his first visit deep cleaning the carpets, dusting, etc.

I’ve hired him to do twice-monthly visits until the house sells (it’s currently under contract, so God Willing, the closing will be soon).  I made this video after his second visit (just three hours compared to the initial one):

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Interminable Heat

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It is hot—interminably hot—here in South Carolina.  I can only imagine how much worse it is for our senior correspondent, Audre Myers, down in Florida.  My European readers will struggle to comprehend the kind of heat we’re experiencing.  I still can’t comprehend entire nations in the developed world that don’t have air-conditioning; it is truly a privilege for Europeans to have the luxury of not having A/C, much less not having to run it constantly.

I’ve often referred to the South in the summer as akin to living on the surface of Venus.  Our poisonous gas atmosphere is in the form of humidity—breathable, but barely.  Imagine walking outside and feeling not just heat, but a kind of all-encompassing clamminess that somehow manages to make you feel even hotter.  Yes, you can get acclimated if you’re willing to stay out in it long enough, but you have to drink constantly, as the combo of heat and humidity is constantly sucking moisture from your body.

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Phone it in Friday LXXIII: YouTube Roundup XXIX: “CRAMPED!”; A Little Praise Report

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Yours portly is still playing catch-up this Friday, so I’m really phoning it in.  I’m actually writing this hasty post mere minutes before my usual 6:30 AM EST posting deadline, so I’ll doubtless be a tad late with this post.

There isn’t one particular reason why I’ve fallen behind a bit on posting (and several other things!).  Life is good and my schedule at work is very manageable.  It’s mostly a situation of having several things to get done at once, combined with some long days of lessons and errands.

But I am very blessed.  Wednesday evening I was out running some errands—I needed to pick up ingredients for a taco dip I bring to parties, as the teachers had a “Friendsgiving” potluck meal yesterday—and my car battery died in the Taco Bell parking lot (that wasn’t for Friendsgiving; that was for me).

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