Dusting
OK, this may indeed be the lamest post of all time… but dusting is something we have to do here a lot.
It is a dry climate, we live in the mountains, and we have a ‘mountain house’ which is to say it is not hermetically sealed. And we have a lot of equipment.
This means we end up dusting a lot [especially before auditions, and ESPECIALLY before auditions where a female of the species will be in attendance].
We have used these dusters, made for cars, for several years now.
The ones we get these days are pretty big – about 18 inches long [We have a lot of equipment, and furniture, and we are lazy – and this is kind of like having a double-wide vacuum cleaner – gets the job done twice as fast :-)].
They do have a special chemical that attracts dust – which is a lot better than just moving it around, like cotton dusters do, and a lot better than the spray EndDust-like products, which leave junk on the components which then seems to attract more dust than ever [BUT do NOT leave these just sitting on something, because the chemical will leach out of the duster and onto whatever it is sitting on – but if you do forget – hope is not lost: it does seem to evaporate over time].
Supposedly the duster works better after it is dirty…
But after awhile, it just seems WRONG to drag the dirty thing over nice equipment – like these speakers.
So we got the new duster ($9.95 at Target) and I thought you all might want to [or not :-)] see what we use before it gets put into use.
“”This means we end up dusting a lot [especially before auditions, and ESPECIALLY before auditions where a female of the species will be in attendance]””
This is sexist…..
Women look dust and the men talk business… i will never buy anything from a company with this kind of mentality
Sorry you make propanga for women oppression
Hi Alpha,
Ha! I wondered when I wrote that if I should mention how we just use female visitors as an excuse to go in a faux panic and finally clean the house [not that it ever gets clean clean]. Otherwise it would really get pretty bad here 🙂 Other excuses are the arrival of reviewers, someone we haven’t met before, it has been a year since the last cleaning, or when our bathrooms start resembling the one in the bar at the beginning of the movie ‘Desperado’.
It does seem sometimes that women want the house to look clean if other women are visiting, and men want to have lots of Led Zeppelin laying around … 😉
Anyway, considering that a woman, Neli, more or less runs Audio Federation [depends on who gets the most excited about something – and Neli gets excited about running the place and designing people’s systems] and I, a man, do the dusting… most of the time… I think that we are an equal opportunity slave driver.. oops, I MEAN BEACON in the darkness on this planet filled with hordes of both insensitive, and overly sensitive, arm-chair Wednesday-afternoon quarterbacks.
[Actually, only dusting for women guests is discriminatory … against men. Which is easy to see if ‘female’ is replaced with ‘male’, or whatever ethnic group as the one we dust for. It implies that men are just slobs and do not care if things are dusty or not – which is far from true…. ;-). ]
Anyway, thanks for keeping me on my toes – and providing more excuses for Neli and I to make fun of each other 😉
Take care,
Mike.
Is it me or was the handle a bit longer than I expected and thicker than I’ve seen it over home shopping TV? I’m glad that it could cater to things indoors.