General Observations

I may have found a new winner in the category of "Most tedious household chores": Powerwashing the deck. Most annoying task is probably removing old caulk. I'm horrible at removing old caulk, I'm too much of an anal-retentive perfectionist to do it with any efficiency. At least razorblades are cheap.

I've been traveling pretty much continuously for the last two months (this is week five in Milwaukee). Despite all of the hype about recession and economic impacts, I can say for certain that all of the flights I have been on have been full, with at most one or two open seats. Talking to the hotel staff, business is down substantially, but there has been a marked increase the last few weeks.

You know you have healthy experience in major household maintenance if you can parse "at least razorblades are cheap" without calling a suicide hotline.

The worst part about heavy travel is the expectation from corporate that you can work lots of overtime because you are just at a hotel with nothing to do. They should try paying overtime as an incentive, it might be more effective.