New Homeowners Advice from My Dad

At one point Saturday while bringing items into the new home, my dad stopped me and said that he had three pieces of advice for me now that I own a home. I can't remember one of them, but here are the other two so that I may enrich your lives too.

1. Always sweep, at least, six feet from the front and back door. A great deal of the mess that dirties up your carpet is tracked in from outside. Even if you wipe your feet off, that's never perfect. So take the time to sweep around all of the entrances to the house daily.

2. "I know you're a man, but sit down when you pee...I do when I'm at home." I wish I knew this when he was still commanding troops. That would have made some nice blackmail material at some point. In all honesty, when I was going thru a super-feminist sympathizer phase in college (aka. the great period of celibacy during the first 1 1/2 years) I tried the sitting down thing. I tried so hard to make life better for whatever female might come into my life. My conclusion - It sucks. Those late-night trips where the aim isn't as accurate (or post-sex when the plumbing is still a bit awkward) are the only times that make sense to me. Ladies, just don't get one of those rugs that wrap around the toilet if there's a man in the house.

Xmas in July

One of the highlights of yesterday was breaking open all of our boxes of video tapes and DVDs. I had forgotten about half of what we had. Matter of fact, I thought I was done unpacking...only for me to find two more boxes.

The greatest part was getting all of my MST3K episodes out. I finally put them in alphabetical order (too lazy of a fan to research show numbers and file them that way). It was also nice to give the copies I recorded from others/TV to my brother since I have accumulated a couple of the DVD collections since moving to Huntsville.

We have yet to break the CDs out. One of my duties this evening is to get the two CD jukeboxes hooked up to the receiver. Then the joy of organizing the CDs will begin!!! Since the new, larger TV is lacking in video inputs (ask if you want the details) I won't be able to use the TV for scrolling through the CD info. This means I'm going to need to find some sort of books to make finding CDs easier until that problem is rectified.

There are some times that having as many CDs as I do can be a real pain in the ass.