TED Helps Around the House

Last week while Grover was out in CA on business I decided to finally tackle the rugs.  Shampooing them.  It's a job you need to do when you can control the traffic in your house.  You might think that with two people living in a tiny house like mine that might not be so difficult.  But if those two people are home all day long and one of them is very often tracking dirt in from the world of farming, it gets pretty gritty.  I had been putting it off, waiting for a time when there would be less dirt following us in--but when would that be?  It's a farmhouse.  Chores have to be done every day.  There are no time outs.

Ok, so it was perfect to do it last week.  I could stay up all night working, or I could begin work at 3 a.m. if I wanted to.  You think I'm kidding.  How much work could it be, you ask.  And how long could it take?  Well, instead of renting one of those 24 hour shampooers from the Red Apple, I borrowed Marsha's Hoover Steamvac.  That meant I could use it indefinitely, or for as many days as I liked--which turned out to be 4 days.  We're talking deep cleaning.

So, after day 2 I started to get bored with the whole process.  That's when I turned to TED.  You know TED, don't you?  Great brains presenting great ideas in talks ranging anywhere from 2 minutes to 20+ minutes.  I grabbed my wireless headphones, turned on the TV, called up NETFLIX and tuned into TED.  And suddenly out of the mundane chore I am transported to the bright, ingenious, fascinating and incredible format -- TED Talks.  There is something for everyone there.  From humor, to politics, economics, science, fashion, literacy and much more--there are amazing bits of info free for the taking.  (I even learned that we are all tying our shoes wrong.  There is a more effective and longer lasting way to do it.) Suddenly shampooing the rug had gotten interesting.  And now I am twice blessed--the rugs are all so clean, and I have learned a lot.

Everywhere I go I tell people about TED talks.  Most of them have no idea what I am talking about.  So, I am officially spreading the word:  TED will inform and entertain you and even keep you company.  I guarantee it.