Thoughts for the Day.

So, last night I went to Legends…had a few mugs with the boys, haven’t done that since last summer…felt good to be out again. Good times. Hit Labambas on the way home….super nachos…mmmmm.

But the events leading up to this night out were what interests me particularly, and are the subjects of what I’ve been thinking about.
First off, how hard is it to do your own dishes when you use them. Why does Rob, Squirrel, and Suketu not do them when they are done with them. Seth, Dirk and I have been religiously doing our dishes for quite some time now, and we are getting really sick of doing entire sink fulls of dishes just to have room to fill up our water pitcher. That is just stupid. Also, why is that the stove becomes a storage place for dirty pans and cookie sheets. That is just silly and lazy. Finally, why do people have entire stacks of cups in their rooms….you know who you are.
So, after this annoyance was realized due to the severe lack of mugs…I only could find two and we used to have five…..I came up with a proposal to this whole thing to nip it in the bud. It will be further discussed at a house meeting when everyone returns, but for now I will detail it because this will give people time to think about it.
1. If you use a dish that is not yours, it must be washed before you can use another dish that is not yours, preferably you would wash the dish immediately after using it.
2. If you use a dish that is yours and don’t feel like washing it, it does not get stored in a common area of the house while dirty…..this goes especially for the cups/glasses all over the place and the frying pans and pots.
3. Failure to comply with 1 will result in your loss of ability to use other peoples dishes.
4. I don’t have a consequence to number 2 thought up, but it seems fair that if you don’t want to wash your dishes you shouldn’t have to, but you also shouldn’t take up shared space in the house to store your dirty dishes.
5. Shared space is not your closet….after a week your clothes need to be out of the common spaces….exceptions include coats and sweaters, because it gets absurd to be constantly dragging your winter coat into and out of your room when you are never going to put it on in there.
6. The Foreman grill gets cleaned every time it is used…right after the food comes of it…because it cleans better while still hot….if you don’t like that rule…don’t use the thing….except for Dirk, because it is his…but he hates when people don’t clean it, so I know he’ll clean it too.

People of the house are free to respond if they think this is a good set of rules…also we should figure out who is going to clean the kitchen next…because lets be serious…it is pretty obvious that Seth has done it more then the rest of us a by a good bit, and it is also obvious that Dirk and I have cleaned more then the rest of you. Also, people not from the house can suggest better ways to organize dish doing in a house with 5-7 people in it..especially people that may live with some of the house guys in the near future….because the people who are good about doing dishes are sick of this crap, and I can’t think of anything better than this.

Also, I drank some wine last night. It was a Shiraz-Cabernet Sauvignon, and I liked it a good bit, but still just a little to much tannin for me…I’m still getting used to that part. I liked the straight Shiraz a little better. Seth said that I lack complexity because of that…I told him that is OK, because I’m a complex guy in a lot of other ways….if I like a simple wine I can probably deal with that.

Dirk and I are going swimming later today. That should be hella cool. I love swimming, and it is a great workout, really cardiovascular, works more then just your legs, in fact usually my arms are more tired then my legs afterward. I also love diving, but given that I haven’t worked on my flexibility for a while, I doubt I can do everything I used to do. Also, I slipped once doing a gainer and almost hit my head on the board…and I slit my thumb open doing a laid out backflip because I came down too close to the board…so my nerves have been pretty shaky whenever I want to try to do one of those dives again. Diving can be somewhat of a workout…I usually feel like I got some good ab work done after a couple hours of just going off the board, but swimming laps is much better in terms of a cardio workout I think, and I don’t stay as long…maybe an hour or little less, so if I leave work at 4 I’ll be home by 6 after walking there and back.

So that is it for now…I had some other thoughts, but I think the beer and weird dreams ate them…maybe I’ll remember them later.