No fun computer stuff this weekend...all my motivation to do stuff like that got destroyed by work on Friday, where I spent the whole day banging my head against the wall trying to get servlet-mapping's to work with WAS 6.1 Feature Pack for Web Services...obviously I'm doing something wrong...just no idea what. At least not thinking about it at all this weekend has given me a few ideas of things to look into on Monday...

No, this weekend was spent cleaning. Saturday involved acquiring cleaning supplies. Today has involved the actual cleaning.

I've had two "DOH!" moments with cleaning, where I just realize that up until that point, I've been doing it all wrong. The first was two years ago when I discovered the vacuum cleaner has a filter, and that filter needs to be Replaced Periodically (this explained the decreasing performance and all the dirt left on the carpet...). Filter not replaced for 3 years: bad performance. Replace filter, and *shock* miraculous improvement! All of a sudden vacuuming actually makes a difference!

Today, I realized I've been cleaning the linoleum floor in my kitchen wrong. For the last three years. I've tried a bunch of different floor cleaners, but in the end it seemed that the floor was always still dirty. In the end, it always came down to having to apply enough elbow grease & spending hours on hands-and-knees to scrub the floor down. What good was a mop? It just didn't work. Today I tried a tile cleaner (it hadn't worked against the soap scum & rust stains in the bathroom, so what the heck? might as well make some use of it...). So I sprayed it on the floor and wiped it up. And all the built up dirt & grime just vanished.

Egats! What is that magical stuff?? What wondrous chemical concoction could achieve such results???

Here's what the bottle says:

• 2.28% chlorine bleach
• 97.72% water

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