For the first time since, gasp, the week before Thanksgiving I did a thorough cleaning of my apartment. I mean, I did a quick wipe through after taking down the Christmas tree on December 24th – but other than that I’ve not dusted, swept or scrubbed once.<\/p>\n
In my defense, I’d not been home very much.\u00a0Between Thanksgiving on the Cape, then vacation in Japan, then Christmas on the Cape, then vacation in Montreal…plus spending 4 or 5 nights\u00a0per week at Randy’s place…I’ve simply not been home to make any messes.<\/p>\n
That said, dust still settles and my little Swiffer was surely put to the test yesterday. And now I’m no longer ashamed to have company.<\/p>\n
And has anybody seen on the news that proposal in New York City about\u00a0banning cell phones and iPods in crosswalks? That’s the most ridiculous thing I’ve heard in ages. The whole point of cell phones (also known as MOBILE phones) and iPods (also known as PORTABLE mp3 players) is that they’re designed for MOBILITY and PORTABILITY. They’re designed to be used on the go.<\/p>\n
If you were just going to sit around the house all day you’d use a stereo and a land-line phone and there’d be no need for iPods and cell phones. If the goal of this proposal is to protect people from distraction at intersections, then they’d have to ban newspapers, books, magazines, billboards, signs, guide books, iPods, cell phones…and other people. Because you can be just as easily distracted by any of those things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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