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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • If we’re strictly talking dust accumulation, there’s a few things you can do to reduce this.

    • Make sure to change the filter in your HVAC system and intake vents every few months with a high quality filter. The better the filter, the more you need to change it.
    • You can also add an air filter to individual rooms. I added them to all our bedrooms and it helps a ton with keeping dust down.

    Aside from that, you’ll still need to dust every so often and how often will depend on how fast it gets dirty again and how deep you want to clean. I use a vacuum and damp rag to dust shelves and such every month and I dust other things like blinds and fan blades and pull out furniture and appliances once a year. Every few years we’ll need to remove something that usually never moves and we’ll clean up the dust from that. I will say it’s much easier to clean stuff regularly when you don’t have lots of things laying around or taking up space. Keeping literal objects tidy makes it less of a chore. It’s a lot easier to just wipe a table than to wipe a table and all the knick knacks.



  • I don’t know what it was about that program that was so entertaining as a child. Maybe it was just easy to tinker with all the knobs and sliders and discover what would happen. The one I remember wasting the most hours on was the pins and marbles. A ball would pop out the top of the screen and fall down and hit the pins. But every now and then a smiley face would fall out and would make a little “meep” sound every time it hit something. And me and my brother and sister would watch it go until a smiley face popped out and we’d all shout “a smiley face!!!” and giggle to ourselves. My parents probably thought we were nuts.



  • When I was. Small child in the early 90s, my dad was a network engineer and he setup our family computer with DOS and lots of games. I don’t remember all of them but I do remember the following:

    • Various arcade games that began running too fast to play after he upgraded the processor
    • Commander Keen
    • After Dark, which wasn’t really a game so much as a cool and highly adjustable screen saver. But for some reason me and my siblings spent many hours playing this “game”.

    Anyway, I guess Commander Keen is my only real suggestion here and I do believe it’s a great game. Just wish I could remember some other games he had installed on the DOS system for us that weren’t baby games like Mickey’s ABCs and 123s.