we went shopping after our trip to the gym today, and as i had looked around our abode before we left, i smartly put swiffer® dusters on the list. i have used them at work and they kick ass, let me tell you. at work, i have used the same little duster thingy for like 2 weeks. when i got home this afternoon and after a nice lunch, i went dusting crazy with my new toy (this is how you know you’re getting old: these types of things are now considered toys). not five minutes into dusting, and i was ready to throw out my first dusting thingy. yikes, it was disgusting. and it’s not like we’re dirty people. in fact, i’m willing to bet that most people that frequent our place would vouch that we’re very tidy, orderly people.

but gawdam, this thing was filthy. i was ready to throw out the towel, however the girl talked me into just beating it clean (which to me defeats the purpose of dusting, but hey what do I know right? I’m just a man) and reusing it. which i of course did, because i always do what she tells me (except when i don’t want to or when she’s not making any sense which is like 95% of the time but don’t tell her that, because then she just gets ‘pissy’ as she calls it, which in reality is like “raving bitch from hell complete with tears so it must be your fault, not mine!”).

and it got me to thinking: did i have any bad dust experiences up north? not that i can recall. yes, we were only there for a week, but i swear my laptop was clean for the whole week up there and it didn’t last a day here without feeling gritty and in need of a soft wipe-down.

so... nor cal: no real bug problems (mosquitoes, flies, etc), no dust, no strange people getting upset with you because you won’t finance their sex change (more on that some other time), and it might be affordable. and pretty. so cal? um, it’s the opposite. in every regard.

our tally now? nor cal ∞ ; so cal 0.

now i’m no genius, but it seems to me that if this were a little league baseball game, they’d have called it already so the loser little kids don’t get all butt-hurt over how much they really suck; they can just deal with the suckiness that is after only 7 innings or whatever it is that they call the game at when you suck.

peace.