Today is Saturday. Every Saturday, Alex works at CPHM Ambulance from 6am to 6pm. That leaves me with 12 hours (ok, well, more like 9 or 10 hours because I usually do get back to sleep after he leaves in the morning) to get chores done. That’s a lot of time – I should really have no excuse for not getting chores done in that time. I mean, even if I have plans and want to go out during the day, I still have the entire morning (most Saturday plans don’t start till the afternoon). So, I’ve been up and about for 4 hours today and haven’t gotten a thing done. Well, actually, I did start wash. So I’ve got that going for me…
Here’s what I’ve been doing for the last hour or so: researching cleaning guidelines and developing daily and weekly checklists for myself to keep on top of the cleaning that must be done. Yep, I’m that much of a procrastinator and that much of a geek. I found a Daily Quick Cleaning Checklist on RealSimple.com. I was like, “This is great! I can totally use this! But… I can’t use it interactively from my iPhone. Boo!” So I decided to create a Google Docs Form that I can access from my iPhone and check off tasks as I do them. But then I decided that really wasn’t enough. I needed something to guide me on the big stuff – the cleaning that needs to be done weekly, monthly, and so on. I found the perfect blend of Geek and Housekeeping… The Periodic Table of Cleaning. This is also from Real Simple, but it’s no longer on their website. I downloaded and modified it so that it’s on one page and printed it out and stuck it on my fridge. And I was like, “This is great! I can totally use this! But… I can’t use it interactively from my iPone. Boo!” So, you guessed it, I created a Google Docs Form that I can access from my iPhone and check off tasks as I do them. Nerdvana.
My Daily Quick Cleaning Checklist
My Weekly Deep Cleaning Checklist
I really want to create Monthly, Quarterly, Bi-Annual, and Annual checklists as well – and I’m sure I will – but I really, really need to stop all this planning and actually start cleaning. Boo cleaning…
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Filed under Geek, house | Comment (0)So here’s what I want:
I want an app that will work with Google Earth. I want to be able to capture location data while I’m out on a walk and have a path created for Google Earth. I want the total mileage to be calculated from the path created in Google Earth and it’d be cool if it could calculate the average mph that I moved based on the times associated with the location points. Also, it’d be cool if it could then calculate approximately how many calories you’ve burned. Oh – and it’d be cool if you could compare your times if you’re doing the same path over and over again. And it might be cool if you could add notes to your location data… Or create a note or photo and have it attach location data to that… I could see people using it to create walking tours of their city as well as what I’d do, which is track my workout data with it.
Of course, this will all work much better once the iPhone has actual GPS functionality instead of sort of a hacked version of it through cell tower and WiFi triangulation. Which may be as soon as June when I will probably really want a new iPhone… I need to get a job that would require me to always have the latest and greatest… Oh! Or my anniversary date with my company is in the beginning of June and since I recently got a promotion/raise, I probably won’t get a raise in June so perhaps I can convince my boss that I at least deserve a bonus (which I do) and that bonus should be at least as much as a new iPhone. 
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Filed under Geek | Comment (0)I just viewed my last post, sent from my iPhone, and it looks like a
poem to me. Something may be afoot with the formatting when it comes
to blogger posts sent from the iPhone. We shall see… I have a
feeling that I may be posting a lot from my iPhone, so I hope the
formatting doesn’t become an annoying issue…
Sent from my iPhone
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I still have 51 open tasks left on my wedding related to do list, but tonight I have SUCKED big time with getting stuff done. All I could do all night was surf Engaget’s posts on the iPhone. It is the coolest thing ever. Alex and I are planning on buying each other one for Christmas – well, a late Christmas gift as my Sprint contract doesn’t expire until February. Gives us plenty of time to save up – and maybe by then we’ll be into the next generation of them. I’m completely obsessed at the moment with my need for one. So cool. Went to the Apple store the other week and played with one and totally fell in love. Sprint sent me a “loyalty reward” today. If I call and sign up for another 2 year agreement, I get a $100 service credit. The mailing was totally geared towards their younger customers by the look of the font and graphics. Sorry Sprint: the iPhone had me at hello.
I also somehow stumbled across the Nabaztag/tag wifi bunny. How cute is that?! He can tell you the time, read you RSS feeds, play your subscribed to podcasts, tell you the weather, and send and receive messages to friends. Soooo adorable! I envision how cute it would be if the family got one as well – we could send little messages through our bunnies back and forth from Dubai. Weeeeeee!
OK. I’m loopy. Must get back to wedding chores. Oh! And tomorrow’s my birthday – yay! But then I’m old – boo!
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