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\"Mandelbrot<\/a>OK, so maybe for most people chaos does NOT breed contentment. Well, probably it doesn’t work for all people. I like a bit of chaos in my life. If everything runs too smoothly, I keep waiting for the other shoe to drop and badness<\/em> to happen.<\/p>\n

So, I guess I’d have to say that this weekend (so far) I must be really happy. On normal weekends we run errands, clean house, shop, and otherwise do all the stuff that doesn’t get done during the week. This weekend we hosted the e357 (SFRevu<\/a>, Gumshoe Review<\/a>, TechRevu<\/a>) staff meeting at our house. Not a problem, except we still had our Christmas tree in the living room (as of Friday) and all the other Christmas decorations up. AND, we still hadn’t made the bed in the guest room (seen from the main room if anyone needed the bathroom). Not to mention that we’d moved all our files out of various places and bought a new file cabinet and…well…hadn’t actually gotten around to putting them all in the new cabinet and getting them out of the temporary boxes and bins and the old file cabinet. “Not so bad”, you say. Well it wouldn’t be except we bought the new file cabinet last summer. And did I mention that this is the time of year to plant spring bulbs and we’d stored those in the basement right near the door — our most used and convenient door.<\/p>\n

So, a whirlwind cleaning event occurred. By 1AM last night (hence no blog post) we had the tree and all the Christmas decoration down, packed, and ready to go to storage. A bit of sleep and another marathon whirlwind of work found: cleared floor space, setting for eight people, all unsightly-ness hidden from public view, and snack tray set out and pizza in-process just as the guest arrived.<\/p>\n

As a side benefit, I’ve got a clean house with clean floors and bathrooms, all the Christmas decorations packed and stored for next year, the guest room all set and ready to go for another guest, I found several WIPS (works in process), and my desk is cleaned. I could just sit here and revel in the joy of a clean house — aaaahhhh! Unfortunately, another side benefit was a new task list as well as the realization that the spring bulbs need to be planted (after all the moles, voles, and whatnot might be hungry). And I still need to clear up the file cabinet and now it’s all easily reached to do it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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