Friday, July 13, 2007
(12:00 AM) | Adam Kotsko:
Friday Afternoon Confessional: Domestic Bliss
I confess that yesterday was perhaps the most productive day of my life. I got groceries and enough toilet paper to last a few weeks, did laundry and ironed, changed my sheets, ran the dishwasher, took out the garbage -- and I still got a significant amount of academic work done as well. I confess that it was strangely unfulfilling.I confess that this morning I checked my free annual credit report. I confess that I only looked at it because they e-mailed me to let me know that a year had passed and I could look at it again without impacting my credit. This leads me to wonder: Why on earth did I want to look at it this time last year? I confess that the new security measures that most financial websites are implementing -- inputting the password on a separate page with some special image on it, collecting answers to several personal questions that I can apparently be asked at any given time -- do not make me feel more secure. In fact, they make me feel like there are more ways for me to mess up and be blocked from accessing my own account.
I confess that my computer is very slow lately, and it is making me angry. I confess that yesterday I ran Ad-Aware, freed up some disk space, and defragmented the hard drive. I cannot yet report if this has sped anything up.
I confess that I am running out of "maintenance" tasks. Perhaps I should run an online poll for what pathetic and unnecessary household chore I should do next:
- Clean the Venetian blinds and adjust the strings
- Wash the garbage can
- Clean the coffee maker I bought a month ago
- Clean the fridge (after living here only three months)
- Remove encrustation from the ketchup and mustard bottles
- Run the ice trays through the dishwasher
UPDATE: I confess that someone has apparently solved the RSS feed problem I was complaining about recently.
