You know you've been away from MSFT too long when
You start applying the pricipals of parallel processing to the laundry...
You know most people would leave it at that, but not me, I'm over the top.
I started doing the laundry on a regular basis and every time we ended up going up to bed and it being covered with clothes that needed put away. At first I thought it was because I was lazy and didn't notice the laundry quick enough. That in fact is and was true. Can I make myself remember better? Well I tried writing it down, but no. Still had a mound of socks at 11:00pm when it was time for bed.
So I started thinking what really throws this process off? One word. Towels. They take for fucking ever to dry. Why? Because they are super absorbant. (If you've read my entry on shopping for toilet paper you know what I'm talking about here). So they cause a stall in the pipe while the dryer works on them. Tammy insists and rightly so that we use low heat for the clothes, its better for them. Just ask the guy who replaced the heating element in the dryer. He's a fuckin' expert. He said, "ya low heat... thats better for your clothes".
So we almost always have a load of whites and two loads of color. So the colors used to take two maybe three runs through the dryer to get done. The towels were just... well... super absorbant...so I back loaded them. I was so fucking proud of myself I tried my new system. Hold all towels and sheets and shit til the end. I was so proud when I "tested" my system and it worked. But being the good engineer I tested again a couple more times. I was so proud. read that pathetic. I'll say it again. I used all my mental powers on speeding up our laundry by like 20 mins or so.
I had to go back to work.
had to...
oh ya and the laundry still sits cause i forget it and we have to put it away at 11:00pm...
You know most people would leave it at that, but not me, I'm over the top.
I started doing the laundry on a regular basis and every time we ended up going up to bed and it being covered with clothes that needed put away. At first I thought it was because I was lazy and didn't notice the laundry quick enough. That in fact is and was true. Can I make myself remember better? Well I tried writing it down, but no. Still had a mound of socks at 11:00pm when it was time for bed.
So I started thinking what really throws this process off? One word. Towels. They take for fucking ever to dry. Why? Because they are super absorbant. (If you've read my entry on shopping for toilet paper you know what I'm talking about here). So they cause a stall in the pipe while the dryer works on them. Tammy insists and rightly so that we use low heat for the clothes, its better for them. Just ask the guy who replaced the heating element in the dryer. He's a fuckin' expert. He said, "ya low heat... thats better for your clothes".
So we almost always have a load of whites and two loads of color. So the colors used to take two maybe three runs through the dryer to get done. The towels were just... well... super absorbant...so I back loaded them. I was so fucking proud of myself I tried my new system. Hold all towels and sheets and shit til the end. I was so proud when I "tested" my system and it worked. But being the good engineer I tested again a couple more times. I was so proud. read that pathetic. I'll say it again. I used all my mental powers on speeding up our laundry by like 20 mins or so.
I had to go back to work.
had to...
oh ya and the laundry still sits cause i forget it and we have to put it away at 11:00pm...
posted by J.R. at 10:48 AM
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