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Storage Shuffle

by Derek on May 11th, 2011
Storage Shuffle

We’ve had a storage unit ever since we moved into our apartment, but it’s just becoming less and less worth having. Now that it’s going up in price yet again we’re getting our stuff out of it. This means that my childhood toys will be that much closer to me at all times. I’m not sure how many (if any) of them are still entirely intact. I might go through my old black & white photography prints and throw out the ones I’m too embarrassed to look at ever again.

I also have a box full of magazines featuring articles on Star Wars The Phantom Menace. I think those decreased in value every day after that movie’s release. Also I think I have some from when X-Files was still good. More than likely I’ll bundle them up in twine and toss them in the recycling.

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Spring Cleaning Feast

by Derek on May 9th, 2011
Spring Cleaning Feast

Recently I cleaned my desk up which mostly involved  trashing junk mail, organizing software CDs, receipts, CD spools and also finding the occasional bit of candy. Actually the only piece I ate was a small peppermint which I have no recollection of ever taking from somewhere. Maybe it was at some sort of office or table at a convention which had free candy. Anyway, when cleaning up, food is the best thing because you can literally get rid of it and never have to see it again. Everything else just piles up somewhere.

That is not to say that I go out of my way to find things to eat in places they wouldn’t normally be, that’s disgusting. But if I found some wrapped hard candy I probably wouldn’t hesitate to finally consume it. The other candy I found was some konpeito which is a Japanese hard candy you might remember being fed to soot sprites in the film Spirited Away by Hayao Miyazaki

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Pax Detox Program

by Derek on September 10th, 2010
Pax Detox Program

Okay, this is the last PAX strip I swear. I’ll have more after next year’s PAX East, but I promise that I won’t milk it as hard since I already spent a week doing strips about PAX this time.

With the exception of the last panel, this strip can apply to any convention I go to. Whenever I come back from a convention there’s a settling in period that usually takes a week at most. I come back home, plop the luggage on the floor, I don’t feel like cooking, I feel tired and unclean and generally don’t want to do anything. But after I put away the luggage, do the laundry, take out the trash, tidy up a bit, shower and make my first meal after the convention that usually is the sign that I’m pretty much back to normal.

Since I’m unemployed right now I managed to do this in record time, but it still took a few days to feel completely back on track.

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Mildewy Towel

by Derek on March 26th, 2010
Mildewy Towel

This is kind of a random one, but I was having trouble coming up with a comic at 1:30 AM Thursday morning when I wrote this. I’ve had a problem with towels not drying fast enough so my towels have gotten that towel funk sort of smell, whereas Anna’s towels seem unscathed by this phenomenon. My current working theory is that her towel hangs in direct sunlight which dries it faster. From some internet research I found a few things that are supposed to help including washing the towel with vinegar. Still though nothing seems foolproof.

As you read this I’m at PAX East with friends and I may or may not be wearing a bird splicer costume from Bioshock. It’s the first convention in a while that I’ve gone to just for fun, and it’s also my first gaming convention so hopefully all turns out well. I’ve already marked up my schedule with panels I want to go to and I’m also looking forward to the Video Games Orchestra performance which from what I’ve seen should be different from Video Games Live.

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To Rug or Not to Rug

by Derek on March 11th, 2010
To Rug or Not to Rug

Oftentimes when I’m leaving my building in the morning, one of the building staff is vacuuming the carpet leading to the doorway. Though this comes up whenever I see someone cleaning one of two surfaces in a hallway. Do you walk upon the area they’ve just spent a while cleaning or walk on the other surface?

But maybe they cleaned the other surface earlier and you’re making it dirty again? Maybe it’s better to dirty the one they’re already cleaning because they have in their hands the means to clean it whereas the other surface would have to wait or would require different tools.

Why yes, I do think like this ALL THE TIME. I think I have a tendency to walk on the surface that isn’t the one currently being cleaned.

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Subway Cleaning

by Derek on March 5th, 2008
Subway Cleaning

I’ve seen people remove newspapers from seats, I’ve seen them wipe a seat with a handkerchief or tissue paper, but this is the first time I’ve seen someone throw a cup of water and then wipe the seat down. There was quite a bit of water too, because they were squeezing out their tissue or whatever it was they were wiping with. Then they took their bag of luggage and put it on the seat! Um, what the hell?


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Work Sponge

by Derek on September 28th, 2007
Work Sponge

Where I work once the sponge has been used enough times it smells mildewy and I refuse to wash my cup with it. So new sponge day (not that it’s any set sort of date) is when I give it a thorough clean. Otherwise I use water and paper towels.


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Nerd Apartment Cleaning

by Derek on February 7th, 2006
Nerd Apartment Cleaning

I actually did clean my apartment pretty thoroughly this weekend. I haven’t done a good cleaning in quite some time. I still have giant piles of DVDs sitting around my apartment because aside from my TV stand and its inefficient shelf space I don’t have another shelf for my DVDs. Partially because I don’t know where I would put one, but mostly out of sheer laziness. My desk is usually the messiest because that’s where random bits of mail and giant piles of DVDRs and CDRs sit around for months on end, and it tends to be the last thing I get to so by then I’ve run out of momentum.

So I did all my dishes, put away my recycling and even scrubbed my tub which was getting kind of discolored. Plus I think my drain was a little clogged so I dumped some Liquid Plumber down it. Actually scrubbing my tub was pretty gross because I was running the water, but the water didn’t drain fast enough so then I had all this gunk floating around in the water. So then I got out of the tub, let it drain, run the water more and then finished off. My bathroom is really dusty for some reason, I don’t know where it comes from, but the rim of my tub will get dust on it almost every single day. Plus I had a lot of stray hair around too.

If you’re not disgusted yet then read this paragraph. I have this long hallway at the entrance of my apartment (I’ve lined the walls with movie posters and wall scrolls, sort of a mini gallery) and this hallway seldom gets cleaned because I’m only in there when I leave and come home. Plus there’s a closet in there so that’ll be the other reason. So since I’m not there often I just assumed it could only really get dusty in there from me treading all over with my dirty boots. I got out my swiffer and ran it along the hall. I think I collected enough hair to make a wig for that girl from The Grudge. Plus I found a dead roach.

So yes, apartment is mostly clean. Dead pests have been smashed and thrown away, computer space has been freed up, DVDRs and CDRs are safely put away in organized CD wallets, tub is clean and all’s well in the world. Except for my lack of a DVD shelf, I’m working on that. Oh, and I have a mirror I haven’t mounted on my door yet.


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